Violet Roche

Her superb diplomacy and indefatigable energy enabled her to maintain New Zealand-wide support at an unprecedented level for 20 years for a charity based on the other side of the world.

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Mona Tracy

Mona Tracy was one of three Canterbury writers whose children’s books, written in the 1920s, have stood the test of time.

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Asieh Amini

Journalist and poet Asieh Amini is a leading voice in the campaign to end stoning and juvenile executions in Iran. Targeted by the state for her reporting and activism, she fled Iran in 2009, but continues to fight against censorship and other human rights abuses in the country.

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