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Gerald Posner
Gerald Posner (born 1954) is an American investigative journalist and former lawyer, author of Mengele, Case Closed (1994 Pulitzer History finalist), Killing the Dream, God's Bankers, and PHARMA; he resigned from the Daily Beast in 2010 after plagiarism findings.
Gerard Menuhin
Gerard Menuhin (born 1948), British-American writer and film producer, son of violinist Yehudi Menuhin; Holocaust denier, removed from the Menuhin foundations in 2005 and 2007, author of Tell the Truth and Shame the Devil (2015).
Gezi Park protests
The Gezi Park protests were a wave of nationwide anti-government demonstrations in Turkey beginning in late May 2013 over plans to redevelop Gezi Park in central Istanbul.
Gianna Beretta Molla
Gianna Beretta Molla (1922–1962), Italian pediatrician, wife, and mother from Magenta; died 1962 after choosing her unborn child's life over her own; beatified 1994, canonized 2004, feast April 28.
Global Slavery Index
Global Slavery Index (GSI), Walk Free's flagship report, estimates modern slavery prevalence, vulnerability, and government response for 160 countries; 2023 edition reports 50 million people in modern slavery in 2021, up 10 million since 2016.
Go back to where you came from
"Go back to where you came from" is a nativist racist epithet used in the US, Australia, and elsewhere to exclude immigrants and citizens of color; documented from the American Colonization Society era through the 2019 Trump "go back" tweets, Title VII workplace law, and the Australian TV series of that name.
Grace Tame
Grace Tame (born 1994) is a Tasmanian survivor-advocate who overturned Tasmania's sexual assault gag laws via #LetHerSpeak, was 2021 Australian of the Year, and founded the Grace Tame Foundation, which closed in 2026.
Greenpeace
Greenpeace: global environmental campaigning network founded 1971 in Vancouver, coordinated by Greenpeace International (Dutch stichting, Amsterdam), 25 independent organizations in over 50 countries, individual-donor funded, known for nonviolent direct action and the Energy Transfer SLAPP litigation.
Guide dog
Guide dog: also called seeing eye dog, a dog trained to help blind or low-vision people navigate, with origins in 1916 Oldenburg, IGDF standards, and robotic guide dog research.
H. Rap Brown
H. Rap Brown, also known as Hubert Gerold Brown, was an American civil rights and Black Power activist. He served as the fifth SNCC chairman and later converted to Islam.
Haben Girma
Haben Girma (born 1988) is an American disability rights lawyer, author, and speaker, the first deafblind graduate of Harvard Law School (2013), winner of NFB v. Scribd, and author of the 2019 memoir Haben.
Hacktivism
Hacktivism, from hacking plus activism, is the use of hacking techniques to promote political agendas. Coined by Cult of the Dead Cow; known for DDoS, defacement, doxing, and conflict-driven state-aligned campaigns.
Haitian migration to the Bahamas
Haitian migration to the Bahamas: long-standing, largely irregular movement of Haitians to the Bahamian archipelago, 30,000-60,000 residents of Haitian descent, known historically as "The Haitian Problem" since Marshall's 1979 study.
Hampstead hoax
The Hampstead hoax, also called the Hampstead satanic ritual abuse case, was a 2014 fabricated allegation that about 175 Hampstead people ran a satanic paedophile ring; children recanted, a 2015 High Court judgment found the claims fabricated, and the conspiracy spread online.
Hands Across America
Hands Across America was a May 25, 1986 USA for Africa fundraiser in which about 5 million people held hands along a 4,125-mile route from New York to Los Angeles, raising roughly $15-34 million for US hunger and homelessness relief.
Harassment
Harassment is unwelcome conduct based on protected characteristics or sexual aims that creates hostile, intimidating environments. Covers US Title VII legal standards, the 1975 coining of sexual harassment, ILO Convention 190, underreporting, and prevention evidence.
Hardik Patel (હાર્દિક પટેલ)
Hardik Patel (હાર્દિક પટેલ) is an Indian politician from Gujarat who rose to prominence leading the 2015 Patidar quota agitation and now serves as a BJP MLA from Viramgam.
Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman, born Araminta Ross, was an American abolitionist who escaped slavery in Maryland in 1849 and then made about 13 return trips to rescue others.
Hate group
Hate group: an organization whose beliefs or practices attack or malign an entire class of people, typically for immutable characteristics. Designated by private monitors like the SPLC and ADL, not a legal category; the FBI investigates only under force-threat conditions.
Hate speech
Hate speech: communication attacking people based on identity factors like race, religion, or gender. No universal legal definition; UN 2019 strategy, Rabat Plan threshold, EU criminalization, US First Amendment protection, platform moderation.
Haunani-Kay Trask
Haunani-Kay Trask (1949-2021), Native Hawaiian scholar, poet, and sovereignty activist; founding director of the UH Manoa Center for Hawaiian Studies, founder of Ka Lahui Hawaii, author of From a Native Daughter.
Hawaiian Renaissance
The Hawaiian Renaissance was a cultural and political movement of the 1960s and 1970s in which Native Hawaiians renewed interest in their language, dance, and voyaging traditions.
Hazel Massery
Hazel Bryan Massery (born 1942) is the white student shown shouting at Elizabeth Eckford in Will Counts's iconic September 4, 1957 photograph of the Little Rock Nine; she later apologized, reconciled briefly with Eckford, and is the subject of Margolick's Elizabeth and Hazel.
Heather Mills
Heather Mills (born 1968) is an English campaigner, former model, and vegan business owner (VBites), distinct from Heather McCartney, Paul McCartney's adopted daughter. Known for her 1993 leg amputation, landmine charity work, 2002-2008 marriage to McCartney, and 166.84 km/h speed skiing record.
Height discrimination
Height discrimination (heightism) is prejudice or unequal treatment based on stature, affecting wages, employment, healthcare, and dating. Key facts: Feldman coined the term in the 1970s; measured wage premiums of about 6% per 10 cm in China; partial legal protection in New York City since 2023.
Helen Keller
Helen Keller (1880–1968), American deafblind author and activist; first deafblind person to earn a BA (Radcliffe, 1904); Socialist Party member from 1909, IWW supporter, ACLU co-founder in 1920; wrote The Story of My Life with teacher Anne Sullivan.
Henry Dunant
Henry Dunant (Jean-Henri Dunant, 1828-1910), Swiss businessman and founder of the ICRC; witnessed Solferino 1859, wrote A Memory of Solferino (1862), initiated the first Geneva Convention (1864), won the first Nobel Peace Prize (1901).
High priest
High priest (Hebrew kohen ha-gadol): chief priest of a temple, especially the Jerusalem Temple. Aaronic-hereditary office; alone entered the Holy of Holies on Yom Kippur; gained civil power only with the Hasmoneans.
Hippie
Hippies were members of a 1960s-1970s countercultural movement rejecting mainstream American mores, centered on San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, the 1967 Summer of Love, psychedelic music, communes, and opposition to the Vietnam War.
Holiday
Holiday: a day set aside by religion, custom, or law for rest or celebration, from the secularized "holy day." Covers religious, national, and cultural holidays, world public-holiday counts, and Labor Day's 1894 US origins.