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Irene Fernandez

1946 - 2014

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Irene Fernandez (18 April 1946 – 31 March 2014) was a Malaysian human rights activist and politician. She was a People's Justice Party (KeADILan) supreme council member and the director and co-founder of the non-governmental organization Tenaganita, which promotes the rights of migrant workers and refugees in Malaysia. In 1995, Irene Fernandez published a report on the living conditions of the migrant workers entitled "Abuse, Torture and Dehumanised Conditions of Migrant Workers in Detention Centres". The report was based in part on information given to her by Steven Gan and a team of reporters from The Sun, who had uncovered evidence that 59 inmates, primarily Bangladeshis, had died in the Semenyih immigration detention camp of the preventable diseases typhoid and beriberi. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Irene Fernandez is the 576th most popular social activist (up from 621st in 2019), the 50th most popular biography from Malaysia (up from 53rd in 2019) and the most popular Malaysian Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Irene Fernandez ranks 576 out of 840. Before her are Bayard Rustin, Henry Spira, Walter Reuther, Lizzie Velásquez, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, and Elvira Rawson de Dellepiane. After her are Thomas Clarkson, Stan Swamy, Emily Hobhouse, Elvia Carrillo Puerto, Megumi Yokota, and Ella Baker.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Irene Fernandez ranks 644. Before her are Richard Blumenthal, Dean Cundey, Michel Chossudovsky, Marcial Pina, Wiesław Rudkowski, and Shirley Ann Jackson. After her are Vladimir Belousov, Humphrey Carpenter, Ricky Jay, Reinhard Lauck, Tom Harrell, and Karina. Among people deceased in 2014, Irene Fernandez ranks 435. Before her are Ibrahim Touré, Barbro Kollberg, Toimi Alatalo, Washington Rodríguez, Michio Mado, and Amiri Baraka. After her are Els Borst, Glenn Cornick, Elaine Stritch, Carmen Zapata, John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough, and Constantin Alexandru.

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In Malaysia

Among people born in Malaysia, Irene Fernandez ranks 50 out of 90. Before her are Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat (1931), Ahmad Zahid Hamidi (1953), Ismail Petra of Kelantan (1949), Anthony Soter Fernandez (1930), Francisco Mendes (1939), and Lee Chong Wei (1982). After her are Subkhiddin Mohd Salleh (1966), Tony Fernandes (1964), Simon Russell Beale (1961), Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor (1972), Mazlan Othman (1951), and Joe Simpson (1960).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Malaysia

Among social activists born in Malaysia, Irene Fernandez ranks 1. After her are Nisha Ayub (1979).

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