- Beatrice Mtetwa
Award winning Human rights lawyer Beatrice has spent the last 20 years defending journalists and resisting government corruption in her home country of Zimbabwe. She has been physically attacked and faced threats against her life, and yet despite such adversity, she continues to fight for freedom and the ideals of democracy. In addition to journalists’ rights, Mtetwa champions a variety of other social causes, including eradicating AIDS and poverty, protecting the rights of women and children, preserving the essential freedoms of peaceful assembly, association and speech, and helping poor farmers wrongfully evicted from their land by the government.
US First Lady Michelle Obama embraced 2014 International Women of Courage Awardee Beatrice at the 2014 Secretary of State’s International Women of Courage Award Ceremony at the U.S. Department of State in Washington.
