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Rohith Vemula (రోహిత్ చక్రవర్తి వేముల)
Rohith Vemula (రోహిత్ చక్రవర్తి వేముల), born 1989, was a Dalit PhD scholar at the University of Hyderabad who died by suicide on 17 January 2016 after suspension and hostel expulsion following a dispute with ABVP students, sparking nationwide caste-discrimination protests.
Ronald McDonald House Charities
Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC), rebranded 2025 as Ronald McDonald House, is a global nonprofit founded in Philadelphia in 1974 that provides Houses, Family Rooms, and Care Mobiles for families of hospitalized children in 60+ countries, with McDonald's as founding partner.
Rōnōha
Rōnōha (労農派, "Labor-Farmer faction") was a group of Japanese Marxist theorists who, from the late 1920s, opposed the Japan Communist Party and the Kōza-ha in the Japan Capitalism Debate.
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks (Rosa Louise McCauley Parks, 1913–2005), American civil rights activist whose December 1, 1955 refusal to yield her Montgomery bus seat sparked the 381-day Montgomery Bus Boycott and ended bus segregation via Browder v. Gayle.
Rouhollah Zamzameh
Rouhollah Zamzameh, known as Rouhollah Zam (روحالله زم), Iranian dissident journalist and founder of the Telegram channel Amadnews; exiled in France, abducted from Iraq in 2019, executed by Iran on 12 December 2020.
Roy Jeffs
Roy Jeffs (Leroy Barlow Jeffs, 1992-2019), a son of FLDS prophet Warren Jeffs, left the sect in February 2014 and publicly described his father's abuses before dying by suicide at age 26.
Ruby Bridges
Ruby Bridges (Ruby Nell Bridges Hall), American civil rights activist who at age six desegregated William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans on November 14, 1960, escorted by federal marshals, later founding the Ruby Bridges Foundation.
Rula Daood
Rula Daood (רולא דאוד), born 1985 in Kafr Yasif, is a Palestinian Christian citizen of Israel, former speech therapist, and national co-director of Standing Together with Alon-Lee Green since 2019; TIME100 Next 2024 honoree and 2026 co-founder of the A Place for Us All party.
Rules for Radicals
Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals, Saul Alinsky's 1971 Random House book of thirteen rules for grassroots community organizing by the Have-Nots; his last book, influential on left organizers and Tea Party activists alike.
Runaway (dependent)
Runaway (dependent): a minor in child welfare or foster care who leaves a state-supervised placement without permission. Covers prevalence, causes, justice-system and permanency risks, and US federal RHY program responses.
Russell Means
Russell Means (Oglala Lakota, 1939–2012), AIM leader who led the 1973 Wounded Knee occupation, later an actor in The Last of the Mohicans and author of Where White Men Fear to Tread.
Sabina Wurmbrand
Sabina Wurmbrand, born Sabina Oster, was a Romanian-born evangelist imprisoned under communism who co-founded The Voice of the Martyrs with her husband Richard and wrote The Pastor's Wife.
Sada Abe (阿部定)
Sada Abe (阿部定), Japanese geisha and prostitute who murdered and emasculated her lover Kichizō Ishida in May 1936, was sentenced to six years, and became an enduring icon of Japanese film, literature, and sexuality studies.
Safia Farkash
Safia Farkash (صفية فركاش), also Safia Farkash Al-Barassi, is the widow of Muammar Gaddafi, his second wife since 1970, mother of seven of his eight children, a UN-sanctioned individual from 2011, and majority shareholder of Buraq Air.
Saima Wazed
Saima Wazed (সায়মা ওয়াজেদ), Bangladeshi school psychologist and autism advocate, daughter of Sheikh Hasina; WHO South-East Asia Regional Director February 2024 to September 2026, ending in fraud allegations, leave, and resignation.
Salwan Momika
Salwan Momika, Iraqi refugee and anti-Islam activist known for 2023 Quran burnings in Stockholm with Salwan Najem; deported in 2024, charged with hate speech, shot dead in Södertälje in January 2025.
Sam Brinton
Sam Brinton (Samuel Otis Brinton, born 1987) is an American nuclear engineer and LGBTQ activist, first openly genderfluid DOE official, fired in December 2022 after airport luggage theft charges; known for anti-conversion therapy advocacy.
Sam Childers
Sam Childers, the Machine Gun Preacher, is an American missionary and author who founded Angels of East Africa, an orphanage in Nimule, South Sudan, for children affected by the LRA; his armed-rescue claims are disputed by the SPLA.
Sarah Ransome
Sarah Ransome, South African-born Epstein and Maxwell survivor, sued in 2017 (settled 2018), testified at Maxwell's 2022 sentencing, and wrote the 2021 memoir Silenced No More; her 2016 sex-tape emails are disputed.
Satish Kumar (सतीश कुमार)
Satish Kumar (सतीश कुमार), born 1936 in Rajasthan, is an Indian-British former Jain monk, peace pilgrim, and ecological educator. He walked 8,000 miles for nuclear disarmament, edited Resurgence for 43 years, and co-founded Schumacher College in Devon.
Satyagraha (सत्याग्रह)
Satyagraha (सत्याग्रह), coined by Mohandas Gandhi in South Africa in 1906, is his method of nonviolent resistance, 'holding firm to truth' or truth-force, built on satya, ahimsa, and self-suffering, and distinct from passive resistance and duragraha.
Savannah Gankiewicz
Savannah Mari Gankiewicz (born 1995) is an American pageant titleholder, Miss Hawaii USA 2023 and Miss USA 2023 by succession after Noelia Voigt's May 2024 resignation; fifth Hawaiian Miss USA, first from Maui in over 20 years.
Scandal
Scandal: a public moral conflict in which a widely publicized norm violation becomes a matter of public concern, with media, historical, and digital dynamics distinguished by publicity, denunciation, and sanction.
Scapegoating
Scapegoating means holding an individual or group unfairly responsible for a misfortune or another's wrongdoing, from the Leviticus 16 ritual goat, and drives prejudice, pogroms, and witch-hunts.
School bullying
School bullying is repeated, unwanted aggressive behavior among school-aged children involving a power imbalance, occurring physically, verbally, relationally, or online. It affects over 30% of students globally, and school-based prevention programs reduce perpetration by roughly 18-19% and victimization by 15-16%.
Scouting
Scouting: global non-formal educational youth movement founded by Robert Baden-Powell (Brownsea Island camp, 1907; Scouting for Boys, 1908), now about 60 million members via WOSM (176 NSOs) and WAGGGS; distinct from talent scouting in sports.
Sean Eldridge
Sean Eldridge, American political activist, Freedom to Marry communications and political director (2010-2011), OutRight Action International board member, NY LEAD co-founder, and 2014 Democratic House candidate in New York's 19th District; husband of Chris Hughes.
Sectarianism in Glasgow
Sectarianism in Glasgow: Protestant-Catholic tension expressed chiefly through the Old Firm football rivalry, marches, and religion-linked identity, with strong perceptions (88%) but low reported personal experience.
Self-hating Jew
Self-hating Jew: pejorative for Jews who criticize Israel or Judaism; also a psychological concept of internalized antisemitism coined by Anton Kuh, analyzed by Theodor Lessing (1930) and Kurt Lewin (1941).
Sex Matters (advocacy group)
Sex Matters is a UK human-rights charity and advocacy group (CIO 1207701, registered 3 April 2024), co-founded by Maya Forstater, campaigning on biological sex, single-sex services, and women's sport.