SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Berta Cáceres

1971 - 2016

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Berta Isabel Cáceres Flores (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈbeɾtajsaˈβel ˈkaseɾes ˈfloɾes]; 4 March 1971 – 3 March 2016) was a Honduran (Lenca) environmental activist, indigenous leader, co-founder and coordinator of the Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH). She won the Goldman Environmental Prize, one of the most prestigious awards for environmental activism, in 2015 for "a grassroots campaign that successfully pressured the world's largest dam builder to pull out of the Agua Zarca Dam" at the Río Gualcarque. In 2016 she was assassinated in her home by armed intruders, after many years of threats against her life. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Berta Cáceres has received more than 515,421 page views. Her biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Berta Cáceres is the 587th most popular social activist (down from 486th in 2019), the 27th most popular biography from Honduras (down from 23rd in 2019) and the most popular Honduran Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Berta Cáceres ranks 587 out of 840. Before her are Luis Taruc, Sylvia Rivera, Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt, Selena Rocky Malone, Asma Jahangir, and Alva Belmont. After her are Hawa Abdi, Katie Eder, Andrea James, Miriam Rodríguez Martínez, Ekaterina Karavelova, and Aed Carabao.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1971, Berta Cáceres ranks 277. Before her are MF Doom, Lola Glaudini, Leonid Slutsky, Víctor Aristizábal, Richard Ashcroft, and Julianne Nicholson. After her are Christian Camargo, Anita Yuen, Patty Jenkins, Susi Susanti, Hélène Ségara, and Danijela Martinović. Among people deceased in 2016, Berta Cáceres ranks 482. Before her are Abu Omar al-Shishani, Viktor Zubkov, Raúl Sánchez, Heinz Ulzheimer, Van Williams, and Henning Christophersen. After her are André Guelfi, M. Balamuralikrishna, Tage Henriksen, Federico Edwards, Väinö Huhtala, and William Christopher.

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In Honduras

Among people born in Honduras, Berta Cáceres ranks 27 out of 84. Before her are Carlos Roberto Flores (1950), Policarpo Paz García (1932), Rafael López Gutiérrez (1854), Ramón Ernesto Cruz Uclés (1903), Julio Lozano Díaz (1885), and José María Medina (1826). After her are Chelato Uclés (1940), Carlos Pavón (1973), Saúl Martínez (1976), Noel Valladares (1977), Amado Guevara (1976), and Porfirio Armando Betancourt (1957).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Honduras

Among social activists born in Honduras, Berta Cáceres ranks 1. 

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