A short biography and background note on Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama. Updated 18 April 2012 to note the announcement that the Dalai Lama has won the 2012 Templeton Prize.
A short biography and background note on Aung San Suu Kyi. Updated 17 April 2012 to include information about Suu Kyi's election to parliament on 1 April 2012.
A short biography and background note on Vaclav Havel. Updated 29 March 2012 to include 'More information' link to Havel's Specter: On Václav Havel published in 'The Nation'.
A short biography and background note on José Ramos-Horta. Updated 26 March 2012 to include information about Ramos-Horta's loss at the 2012 presidential election.
A short biography and background note on Andrei Sakharov. Updated 22 March 2012 to replace image with image from Wikimedia Commons (http://commons.wikimedia.org)
A short biography and background note on Rigoberta Menchú Tum. Updated 21 March 2012 to include information about charges of genocide and crimes against humanity brought against Efraín Ríos Montt.
A short biography and background note on Raoul Wallenberg. Updated 20 March 2012 to include information about a year-long commemoration of Wallenberg's life being held in Hungary.
A short biography and background note on Lech Walesa. Updated 18 March 2012 to note new evidence showing that documents suggesting Walesa collaborated with the communist regime were forged by the secret police.
A short biography and background note on Georgy Zhukov. Updated 25 September 2011 to note the Soviet Union's declaration of war on Japan on 8 August 1945.
A short biography and background note on John Rabe. Updated on 25 September 2011 to note the Soviet Union's declaration of war on Japan on 8 August 1945.
A short biography and background note on Simon Wiesenthal. Updated 15 September 2011 to replace image with image from Wikimedia Commons (http://commons.wikimedia.org).
A short biography and background note on Nancy Wake. Updated 15 September 2011 to replace image with image from Wikimedia Commons (http://commons.wikimedia.org).
A short biography and background note on Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Updated 15 September 2011 to replace image with image from Wikimedia Commons (http://commons.wikimedia.org).
A short biography and background note on Albert Schweitzer. Updated 15 September 2011 to replace image with image from Wikimedia Commons (http://commons.wikimedia.org).
A short biography and background note on Yitzhak Rabin. Updated 15 September 2011 to replace image with image from Wikimedia Commons (http://commons.wikimedia.org).
