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Sharon Shenhav(Israel) is a lawyer, a representative on the steering committee of Engendering the Peace Process and a member of Meimad.

Her legal career in Israel has been devoted to struggling against Jewish Fundamentalism, mainly in the area of religious divorce and the problem of agunot. (Jewish women who are unable to obtain a religious divorce) 

Since 1998 she has been the Director of the International Jewish Women’s Human Rights Watch.

Mariam Rawi (Afghanistan) is a member of the Cultural Committee of RAWA.

She teaches in a school in a refugee camp. By designing and publishing a periodical magazine, "Woman’s Message" which informs people, especially women, about fundamentalism and the fatal danger of it existence in her country. 

She has recollected women’s reports to include them in her publication and disseminate their situation.

Mariem Helie-Lucas (Algeria) is a sociologist and an anthropologist. 

She is the founder of the international solidarity network ‘Women Living Under Muslim Laws’ and was its international co-ordinator for 15 years. This network links women in Muslim countries and exchanges experiences and testimonies about the situation of women living under Muslim laws. It informs on the struggles and strategies in order to stimulate new initiatives in defence of the rights of women and to create support and solidarity.

Creusa Maria Oliveira (Brazil) is an activist of the women’s movement, black movement and syndicate movement. She presides the "Federação Nacional dos Trabalhadores Domésticos" and is the Secretary of the Latin American Human Rights Confederation of Domestic Workers. Her long struggle is marked by the combat of the multiple forms of discrimination.

Suzanne Pharr (United States) is the founder of Women’s Project in Arkansas where she was on the staff for 19 years.

She is currently the director of the Highlander Center in New Market, Tennessee.

For the past three decades, her work has focused on building a multi-racial, multi-issue progressive movement. 

She is the author of Homophobia: A weapon of Sexism and In the Time of the Right: Reflections on Liberation.

Gloria Cuartas (Colombia) is a social worker and an expert in community work. She was the mayor of Apartadó in Antioquia, Colombia from 1995 till 1997, for which she was awarded the UNESCO prize " Mayors for Peace" and received a recognition as defender of human rights.

She is a member of the editorial committee of the magazine "Utopías" and of the networks: "Red Internacional Mujeres por la paz", "Red Mujeres Ecumenicas de Colombia", "Cooporación Ecomujer " and "Opción política alternativa: Frente Social y Político".

Suhad Bishara (Palestine) is a lawyer, founder and member of a Palestinian feminist organisation in Kayan.

She served as the legal counsel to the Arab Steering Committee for Planning and was a member of a working group, on the status of Palestinian women in Israel and presented a shadow report to CEDAW on the subject.

She currently works for Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel and since 1995 serves as a legal counsel for the hotline for battered women, representing Palestinian battered women in religious courts.

Rose Marie Muraro (Brazil) was one of the first to establish the subject of women in modern Brazil. From 1969 she worked in the Catholic Church institutions, till 1986 (the same time as Father Leonardo Boff) when she was punished by the Vatican because of her work on feminism and sexuality.

Writer and editor, she is the author of 15 books and has published innumerable articles. 

She was nominated nine times for woman of the year, by different institutions and two times as woman of the century. In 1994, she received her title as Intellectual of the Year.