This article is a list of notable women's rights activists, arranged alphabetically by modern country names and by the names of the persons listed.
Enver Hoxha
Parashqevi Qiriazi
Sevasti Qiriazi
Urani Rumbo
Azucena Villaflor
Thelma Bate (1904–1984) – community leader, advocate for inclusion of Aboriginals in Country Women's Association
Sandra Bloodworth – labour historian, socialist activist, co-founder of Trotskyist Socialist Alternative, editor of Marxist Left Review
Eva Cox (born 1938) – sociologist and feminist active in politics and social services, member of Women's Electoral Lobby, social commentator on women in power and at work, and social justice
Zelda D'Aprano (born 1928) – trade unionist, feminist, in 1969 chained herself to doors of Commonwealth Building over equal pay.
Louisa Margaret Dunkley (1866–1927) – telegraphist and labour organizer
Elizabeth Evatt (born 1933) – legal reformist, jurist, critic of Australia's Sex Discrimination Act, first Australian in United Nations Commission on Human Rights
Miles Franklin (1879–1954) – writer and feminist
Vida Goldstein (1869–1949) – early Australian feminist campaigning for women's suffrage and social reform, first woman in British Empire to stand for national election
Germaine Greer (born 1939) – author of The Female Eunuch, academic and social commentator
Bella Guerin (1858–1923) – first woman to graduate from an Australian university, Guerin was a socialist feminist prominent (although with periods of public dispute) within the Australian Labor Party.
Louisa Lawson (1848–1920)) – feminist, suffragist, author, founder of The Dawn, and pro-republican federalist
Eileen Powell (1913–1997) – trade unionist, women's activist and contributor to the Equal Pay for Equal Work decision
Millicent Preston-Stanley (1883–1955) – first female member of New South Wales Legislative Assembly, campaigner for custodial rights of mothers in divorce and for women's health care
Elizabeth Anne Reid (born 1942) – world's first women's affairs adviser to head of government (Gough Whitlam), active in UN and on HIV
Bessie Rischbieth (1874–1967)) – earliest female appointee to any court (honorary, Perth Children's Court, 1915), active against Australian government practice of taking Aboriginal children from their mothers (Stolen Generation
Jessie Street (1889–1970) – Australian suffragette, feminist and human rights campaigner influential in labour rights and early days of UN
Anne Summers (born 1945)- women's rights activist in politics and media, women's advisor to Labor premier Paul Keating, editor of Ms. magazine (NY)
Rosie Batty (born 1962) – 2015 Australian of the Year and family violence campaigner
Fiona Patten (born 1964) – leader of Australian Sex Party, lobbyist for personal freedoms and progressive lifestyles
Michelle Payne (born 1985) – first female winner of Melbourne Cup and an advocate of increased presence of women in sport
Margot Fink (born 1994) – Prominent LGBTIQ activist and nominee for Young Australian of the Year (2016)
Marianne Hainisch (1839–1936) – activist, exponent of women’s right to work and education
Auguste Fickert (1855 – 1910), feminist and social reformer.
Marguerite Coppin (1867–1931) – female Poet Laureate of Belgium and advocate of women's rights
Frédérique Petrides (1903–1983) – Belgian-American pioneer female orchestral conductor, activist and editor of Women in Music
Unity Dow (born 1959) – judge and writer, plaintiff in case allowing children of mixed parentage to be deemed nationals
Dimitrana Ivanova (1881–1960), educational reformer and suffragist
Ekaterina Karavelova (1860–1947), suffragist and women's rights activist
Anna Karima (1871–1949), suffragist and women's rights activist
Eugenia Kisimova (1831–1885), feminist, philanthropist and women's rights activist
Kina Konova (1872–1952), publicist and suffragist
Julia Malinova (1869–1953), suffragist and founder of the Bulgarian Women's Union
Clara Ant
Albertina de Oliveira Costa
Jaqueline Jesus
Lily Marinho
Míriam Martinho
Lucia Nader
Matilde Ribeiro
Alzira Rufino
Heleieth Saffioti
Miêtta Santiago
Viviane Senna
Yara Yavelberg
Nellie McClung (1873–1951) – feminist and suffragist, part of The Famous Five (Canada)
Jamie McIntosh (21st century) – lawyer and women's rights activist
Emily Howard Stowe (1831–1903) – physician, advocate of women's inclusion in medical profession, founder of Canadian Women's Suffrage Association
Edith Archibald (1854–1936) – suffragist, writer, promoter of Maritime Women's Christian Temperance Union, National Council of Women of Canada and Local Council of Women of Halifax
Anna Leonowens (1831–1915) – travel writer, educator, social activist
Eliza Ritchie (1856–1933) – prominent suffragist, executive member of Local Council of Women of Halifax
Laura Borden (1861–1940) – president of the Local Council of Women of Halifax
Marie Lacoste-Gérin-Lajoie (1867–1945) – suffragette, self-taught jurist
Idola Saint-Jean (1880–1945) – suffragette, journalist
Thérèse Casgrain (1896 – 1981) – suffragette, reformer, feminist, politician and senator, mainly active in Quebec
Léa Roback (1903–2000) – feminist and workers' union activist tied with communist party
Françoise David (born 1948) – politician, feminist activist
Isaura Gomes
María Rivera Urquieta
Chen Xiefen
Qiu Yufang
Jelica Belović-Bernardzikowska
Annestine Beyer (1795–1884) – pioneer of women's education
Widad Akrawi (born 1969) – writer and doctor, advocate for gender equality, women's empowerment and participation in peace-building and post-conflict governance
Astrid Stampe Feddersen (1852–1930) – chaired first Scandinavian meeting on women's rights
Caroline Testman (1839–1919) – feminist, co-founder of Dansk Kvindesamfund
Natalie Zahle (1827–1913) – pioneer of women's education
Qasim Amin (1863–1908) – jurist, early advocate of women’s rights in society
Nawal el-Saadawi (born 1931) – writer and doctor, advocate of women’s health and equality
Hoda Shaarawi (1879–1947) – feminist organizer of Mubarrat Muhammad Ali (women’s social service organization), Union of Educated Egyptian Women, and Wafdist Women’s Central Committee, founder president of Egyptian Feminist Union
Engy Ghozlan (born 1985) – coordinator of campaigns against sexual harassment
Soraya Bahgat (born 1983) – Egyptian-Finnish women's rights advocate, social entrepreneur and founder of Tahrir Bodyguard
Elisabeth Howen (1834-1923), women's educational pioneer
Finland
Hanna Andersin
Soraya Bahgat (born 1983) – see Egypt.
Alexandra Gripenberg
Adelaïde Ehrnrooth
Elisabeth Blomqvist
Rosina Heikel
Alma Hjelt
Lucina Hagman
Olympe de Gouges (1748–1793) – playwright and political activist who wrote Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen, 1791
Anne-Josèphe Théroigne de Méricourt (1762–1817) – politician
Charles Fourier (1772–1837) – philosopher
Hubertine Auclert (1848–1914) – feminist activist, suffragette
Louise Weiss (1893–1983) – journalist, writer, politician
Jane Vialle (1906-1953) – journalist, politician
Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) – philosopher, writer
Françoise Giroud (1916–2003) – journalist, writer, politician
Ruth Bré (c. 1862/67–1911), writer, advocate of matrilineality and women's rights, founder of Bund für Mutterschutz (League for Maternity Leave)
Alice Schwarzer (born 1942) – journalist and publisher of the magazine Emma
Annie Jiagge (1918–1996), lawyer, judge and women's rights activist, drafted Declaration on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, co-founded Women's World Banking
Kalliroi Parren (1861–1940), founder of the Greek women's movement
Clotilde Apponyi (1867–1942), suffragist
Enikő Bollobás (born 1952), academic specializing in women's studies
Teréz Karacs (1808–1892), writer and women's rights activist
Vilma Glücklich (1872–1927), educational reformer and women's rights activist
Éva Takács (1780–1845), writer and feminist
Blanka Teleki (1806–1862), feminist and advocate of female education
Rosika Schwimmer (1877–1948), feminist and suffragist, World Peace Prize (1937)
Pálné Veres (1815–1895), founder of Hungarian National Association for Women's Education
Margaret "Gretta" Cousins (1878–1954) – Irish-Indian suffragist, established All India Women's Conference, co-founded Irish Women's Franchise League
Madhusree Dutta (born 1959) – co-founder of Majlis, Mumbai, author, cultural activist, filmmaker and curator
Kirthi Jayakumar (born 1987) – founder of The Red Elephant Foundation, rights activist, campaigner against violence against women.
Shruti Kapoor – women's rights activist, economist, social entrepreneur
Sunitha Krishnan (born 1972) – Indian social activist, co-founder of Prajwala, to assist trafficked women, girls and transgender people in finding shelter, education and employment
Subodh Markandeya – senior advocate
Jyotirao Phule (1827–1890) – social reformer, critic of caste system, founded school for girls, widow-remarriage initiative, home for upper-caste widows, and home for infant girls to curb female infanticide
Manasi Pradhan (born 1962) – founder of nationwide Honour for Women National Campaign against violence to women
Mamatha Raghuveer Achanta – women's and child rights activist, chair of Child Welfare Committee, Warangal District, active in A.P. State Commission for Protection Child Rights, founder director of Tharuni, focusing on girl-child and women empowerment
Idrees Ul Haq (born 1988) – founder of Social Royal Voluntary Environmental Service, rights activist, campaigner against violence to women in Jammu and Kashmir
Raden Adjeng Kartini (1879–1904) – Javanese advocate for native Indonesian women, critic of polygamy and lack of women's education
Parvin Ardalan (born 1967) – women's rights activist
Mahboubeh Abbasgholizadeh (born 1958) – women's rights activist, founder of ZananTV and NGO Training Center
Bibi Khanoom Astarabadi (1859–1921) – writer
Sediqeh Dowlatabadi (1882–1962) – journalist and women's rights activist
Shirin Ebadi (born 1947) – activist, Nobel Peace Prize winner for efforts for rights of women and children
Mohtaram Eskandari (1895–1924) – woman's rights activist, founder of "Jam'iat e nesvan e vatan-khah" (Society of Patriotic Women)
Sheema Kalbasi (born 1972) – writer and advocate for human rights and gender equality
Noushin Ahmadi Khorasani (born 1970) – women's rights activist
Shadi Sadr (born 1975) – women's rights activist
Shahla Sherkat (born 1956) – journalist
Táhirih (died 1852) – Bábí poet, theologian, and exponent of women's rights in 19th century
Roya Toloui (born 1966) – women's rights activist
Ireland
Margaret "Gretta" Cousins (1878–1954): see India.
Anna Haslam (1829–1922) – early women’s movement figure, founded the Dublin Women's Suffrage Association
Francis Hutcheson (8 August 1694 – 8 August 1746) – philosopher born to activist family of Scots Presbyterians, opponent of slavery and advocate of women's rights
Marcia Freedman (born 1938) – founder of Israel's feminist movement (1971); politician, social activist and writer
Anat Hoffman (born 1954) – executive director, Israel Religious Action Center; director and founding member, Women of the Wall
Alma Dolens
Anna Maria Mozzoni
Yajima Kajiko
Lydia Canaan
Laure Moghaizel (1929–1997) – lawyer and women's rights advocate
Alaa Murabit (born 1989) – physician, advocate of inclusive security, peace-building and post-conflict governance
Catherine Schleimer-Kill
Netty Probst
Marguerite Mongenast-Servais
Marguerite Thomas-Clement
Netherlands
Ayaan Hirsi Ali (born 1969) – see Somalia.
Wilhelmina Drucker
Mariane van Hogendorp
Mietje Hoitsema
Cornélie Huygens
Aletta Jacobs
Charlotte Jacobs
Jeltje Kemper
Anette Poelman
Rosa Namises
Gwen Lister
Monica Geingos
New Zealand
Kate Sheppard (1847–1934) – suffragette, influential in winning voting rights for women in 1893 (first country and national election in which women have vote)
Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti (1900–1978) – women's rights activist
Aasta Hansteen
Anniken Huitfeldt
Mimi Sverdrup Lunden
Amalie Øvergaard
Clara Tschudi
Margrethe Vullum
Fatima Lodhi (born 1989) – Pakistani women's rights activist who addressed colorism
Malala Yousafzai (born 1997) – Pakistani women's rights activist shot in assassination attempt by Taliban for advocating for girls' education, now in UK
Zubeida Habib Rahimtoola (1917–2015) – member of All Pakistan Women's Association
María Jesús Alvarado Rivera
Risa Hontiveros-Baraquel – women's right activities
Liza Maza
Poland
Maria Konopnicka
Carolina Beatriz Ângelo
Adelaide Cabete
Ana de Castro Osório
Luisa Capetillo (1879–1922) – labor union suffragette jailed for wearing pants in public
Maria Baiulescu
Calypso Botez
Alexandrina Cantacuzino
Maria Cuțarida-Crătunescu
Clara Maniu
Elena Meissner
Sofia Nădejde
Ella Negruzzi
Elena Pop-Hossu-Longin
Ilona Stetina
Izabela Sadoveanu-Evan
Anna Filosofova (1837–1912) – early women's rights activist
Maria Trubnikova (1835-1897) – early women's rights activist
Nadezhda Stasova (1822-1895) – early women's rights activist
Tatiana Mamonova (born 1943) – founder of modern Russian women's movement
Ksenija Atanasijević (1894–1981) – philosopher, suffragette, first PhD Doctor in Serbian universities
Helen of Anjou (1236–1314) – queen, feminist, establisher of women schools
Jefimija (1349–1405) – Serbian politician, poet, diplomat, feminist
Draga Ljočić
Milica of Serbia (1335–1405) – empress, feminist, poet
Katarina Milovuk
Milunka Savić (1888–1973) – first female combatant, soldier, feminist
Stasa Zajovic (born 1953) – co-founder and coordinator of Women in Black
Ayaan Hirsi Ali (born 1969) – Somali-Dutch feminist and atheist activist, writer and politician
Shamima Shaikh (1960–1998) – member of the Muslim Youth Movement of South Africa, exponent of Islamic gender equality
Concepción Arenal (1820–1893), feminist and activist
Clara Campoamor (1888–1972), politician and feminist
Sophie Adlersparre (1823–1895) – publisher, women's rights activist and pioneer
Gertrud Adelborg (1853–1942) – teacher, active in women's rights movement and women's suffrage
Ellen Anckarsvärd (1833–1898) – women's rights activist, co-founded Föreningen för gift kvinnas äganderätt (Married Woman's Property Rights Association)
Fredrika Bremer (1801–1865) – writer, feminist activist and pioneer
Josefina Deland (1814–1890) – feminist, writer, teacher, founded Svenska lärarinnors pensionsförening (Society for Retired Female Teachers)
Anna Hierta-Retzius (1841–1924) – women's rights activist and philanthropist
Lotten von Kræmer (1828–1912) – writer, poet, philanthropist, founder of literary society Samfundet De Nio
Agda Montelius (1850–1920) – philanthropist feminist, chairman of the Fredrika-Bremer-förbundet.
Rosalie Roos (1823–1898) – feminist activist, writer and pioneer
Hilda Sachs (1857–1935) – journalist, writer and feminist
Sophie Sager, (1825 – 1902) – women's rights activist and writer
Anna Sandström (1854–1931) – educational reformer
Kajsa Wahlberg – Sweden's national rapporteur on human trafficking opposition activities
Anna Whitlock (1852–1930) – school pioneer, journalist and feminist
Switzerland
Marianne Ehrmann (1755–1795) – among first women novelists and publicists in German-speaking countries
Margarethe Faas-Hardegger
Marie Goegg-Pouchoulin (1826-1899), founder of the Swiss women's movement
Clementina Black (1853–1922) – writer prominent in the Women's Trade Union League and the forerunner of the Women's Industrial Council
Helen Blackburn (1842–1903) – suffragist and campaigner for women's employment rights
Barbara Bodichon (1827–1891) – active in the Langham Place Circle, promoter of first journal to press for women's rights, the English Woman's Journal (1858–64)
Jessie Boucherett (1825–1905) – co-founder of Society for Promoting the Employment of Women in 1859, editor of Englishwoman's Review (1866–70), co-founder of Women's Employment Defence League in 1891
Ida Craft (fl. 1910s) – suffragist, among main organizers of Suffrage Hikes
June Eric-Udorie, Anti-FGM campaigner
Millicent Fawcett (1847–1929) – suffragist and feminist, president of National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
Mary Fildes (1789–1876) – political activist and founder of Manchester Female Reform Society
Edith Margaret Garrud (1872–1971) – trained "Bodyguard" unit of Women's Social and Political Union in jujutsu techniques
Diana Reader Harris (1912–1996) – educator and advocate of female ordination in the Church of England
Matilda Hays (1820–1897) – co-founder of first journal to press for women's rights, the English Woman's Journal (1858–64)
Anna Mary Howitt (1824–1884) – feminist prominent in the campaign that led to the Married Women's Property Act 1870
Anne Knight (1786–1862) – feminist and social reformer
Priscilla Bright McLaren (1815–1906) – women's rights campaigner
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) – philosopher, political economist, author of The Subjection of Women
Elizabeth Montagu (1718–1800) – social reformer and Bluestocking
Olive Morris (1952–1979) feminist, black nationalist, and squatters' rights activist
Caroline Norton (1808–1877) – social campaigner influencing the Custody of Infants Act 1839, Matrimonial Causes Act 1857 and Married Women's Property Act 1870
Christabel Pankhurst (1880–1958) – suffragette, co-founder and leader of Women's Social and Political Union
Emmeline Pankhurst (1858–1928) – founder leader of suffragette movement
Bessie Rayner Parkes (1829–1925) – editor of first journal to press for women's rights, the English Woman's Journal (1858–64)
Dora Russell (1894–1986) – campaigner, advocate of marriage reform, birth control and female emancipation
Charlotte Carmichael Stopes (1840–1929) – author and campaigner for women's rights, mother of Marie Stopes
Marie Stopes (1880–1958) – advocate of birth control and equality in marriage
Alice Vickery (1844–1929) – physician, supporter of birth control as means of women's emancipation
Catherine Winkworth (1827–1878) – translator and women's rights activist, secretary of the Clifton Association for Higher Education for Women
Malala Yousafzai (born 1997) – see Pakistan.
Alice Zimmern (1855–1939) – writer and suffragist
Jane Addams (1860–1935) – major social activist, president Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906) – prominent opponent of slavery, played a pivotal role in the 19th-century women's rights movement to introduce women's suffrage into the United States
Helen Valeska Bary (1888–1973) – suffragist, researcher, and social reformer
Alice Stone Blackwell (1857–1950) – feminist and journalist, editor of the Woman's Journal, a major women's rights publication
Antoinette Brown Blackwell (1825–1921) – founded American Woman Suffrage Association with Lucy Stone in 1869
Henry Browne Blackwell (1825–1909) – businessman, abolitionist, journalist, suffrage leader and campaigner
Amelia Bloomer (1818–1894) – advocate of women's issues, suffragist, publisher and editor of The Lily
Helen Gurley Brown (1922–2012) – author of Sex and the Single Girl, long-time editor of Cosmopolitan, advocate of women's self-fulfillment
Lucy Burns (1879–1966) – suffragist and women's rights activist
Jacqueline Ceballos – feminist and founder of Veteran Feminists of America
Carrie Chapman Catt (1859–1947) – suffragist leader, president of National American Woman Suffrage Association, founder of League of Women Voters and International Alliance of Women
William Henry Channing (1810–1884) – minister, author
Grace Julian Clarke (1865–1938) – suffragist, journalist, author
Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) – abolitionist, writer, speaker
Carol Downer (born 1933) – founder of women's self-help movement, feminist, and attorney
Elisabeth Freeman (1876–1942) – suffragist, civil rights activist, participated in Suffrage Hikes
Nancy Friday (born 1933) – writer and activist
Betty Friedan (1921–2006) – writer, activist, feminist
Margaret Fuller (1810–1850) – Transcendentalist, advocate of women's education, author of Woman in the Nineteenth Century
Matilda Joslyn Gage (1826–1898) – suffragist, editor, writer, organizer
William Lloyd Garrison (1805–1879) – abolitionist, journalist, organizer, advocate
Ruth Bader Ginsburg (born 1933) – academic and lawyer for several women's rights cases before the United States Supreme Court. She herself became a Supreme Court Justice in 1993.
Emma Goldman (1869–1940) – campaigner for birth control and other rights
Judy Goldsmith (born 1938) – feminist activist, President of National Organization for Women (NOW)
Helen M. Gougar (1843–1907) – lawyer, temperance and women's rights advocate
Grace Greenwood (1823–1904) – first woman reporter on New York Times, advocate of social reform and women's rights
Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1828–1911) – abolitionist, minister, author
Isabella Beecher Hooker (1822–1907) – leader, lecturer and activist in the American Suffragist movement
Julia Ward Howe (1818–1910) – suffragist, writer, organizer
Jane Hunt (1812–1889) – philanthropist
Rosalie Gardiner Jones (1883–1978) – suffragist and organizer of the Suffrage Hikes
Mary Livermore (1820–1905) – women's rights journalist, suffragist
Kate Kelly (1980)- feminist and human rights lawyer, founder of Ordain Women, works for Planned Parenthood.
Abby Kelley (1811–1887) – opponent of slavery, women's rights activist, one of the first women to voice views in public speeches
Inez Milholland (1886–1916) – suffragist, key participant in National Woman's Party and Woman Suffrage Parade of 1913
Robin Morgan (born 1941) – poet, political theorist, journalist and lecturer
Lucretia Mott (1793–1880) – abolitionist, women's rights activist, and social reformer, who helped write Declaration of Sentiments during 1848 Seneca Falls Convention
Pauli Murray (1910–1985) – civil and women's rights activist, lawyer, and Episcopal priest
Diane Nash (born 1938) – Civil Rights Movement leader and organizer, voting rights exponent
Zelda Kingoff Nordlinger (born 1932) – instigator of first rape-reform laws
Maud Wood Park (1871–1955) – founder College Equal Suffrage League, first president League of Women Voters
Alice Paul (1885–1977) – One of the leaders of the 1910s Women's Voting Rights Movement for 19th Amendment, founder of National Woman's Party, initiator of Silent Sentinels and 1913 Women's Suffrage Parade, author of the proposed Equal Rights Amendment
Frédérique Petrides (1903–1983) – see Belgium.
Wendell Phillips (1811–1884) – abolitionist, orator, lawyer
Margaret Sanger (1879–1966) – writer, nurse, founder American Birth Control League, founder president of Planned Parenthood
May Wright Sewall (1844–1920) – educator, feminist, president of National Council of Women for the United States, president of the International Council of Women
Anna Howard Shaw (1847–1919) – president of National Women's Suffrage Association
Eleanor Smeal (born 1939) – organizer, initiator, president of NOW, founder and president of the Feminist Majority Foundation.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902) – social activist, abolitionist, suffragist, organizer of 1848 Women's Rights Convention, co-founder of National Woman Suffrage Association and International Council of Women
Gloria Steinem (born 1934) – writer, activist, feminist, women's rights journalist
Doris Stevens (1892–1963) – organizer for National American Women Suffrage Association and National Woman's Party, Silent Sentinels participant, author of Jailed for Freedom
Pauline Agassiz Shaw (1841–1917) – founder president of Boston Equal Suffrage Association for Good Government
Lucy Stone (1818–1893) – orator, one of the initiators of the first National Women's Rights Convention, founder of Woman's Journal, force behind the American Woman Suffrage Association, noted for retaining her surname after marriage
Roshini Thinakaran – film-maker focussing on lives of women in post-conflict zones
Dorothy Thompson (1893–1961) – Buffalo and New York suffragist, later influential journalist and radio broadcaster
Sojourner Truth (c. 1797 – 1883) – abolitionist and women's rights activist and speaker
Mabel Vernon (1883–1975) – suffragist, member of Congressional Union for Women Suffrage, organizer for Silent Sentinels
Harry S. Weeks – suffragist, civil rights activist, founder of Wheeling, WV's Democratic-Socialist Union
Ida B. Wells (1862–1931) – civil rights and anti-lynching activist, suffragist noted for refusal to avoid media attention as an African American
Frances Willard (1839–1898) – long-time president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, which, under her leadership, supported women's suffrage
Victoria Woodhull (1838–1927) – suffragist, organizer, first woman to run for U.S. presidency
Rose O'Neill (1874-1944) famous illustrator (Kewpie creator) who worked for women's right to vote by creating posters and advertising material to promoting the women's movement. Worked with Eleanor Roosevelt.
María Abella de Ramírez
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