A Chinese feminist activist and English language professor, and a seven-term district-level congress member

A Chinese historian best known for his work as an environmental activist who established the Friends of Nature in 1994 as the first environmental non-governmental organization

An esteemed Filipino actress who devoted her time and talents as a volunteer and then member of the Board of Governors of the Philippine National Red Cross

Former President of Bangchak Petroleum who was appointed deputy governor of the Petroleum Authority of Thailand

A lawyer by profession and a committed environmentalist by choice who made the fight to protect India's environment his unending mission

The founder of religious congregation called Kkottongnae Brothers

A Pakistani human rights lawyer and activist who co-founded and chaired the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan

Thailand's senior minister who mobilized every government agency to fight AIDS and helped formulate Thailand's National AIDS Plan

An Indian physician and activist in family planning andpopulation control and pioneered programmes of community health workers in rural areas of Maharashtra, the third largest state in India