"I fear that under the surface of our western democratic, egalitarian societies, embedded deep in our culture, still lurks an institutionalized belief that women are inferior." Bianca Jagger is a human and social rights advocate from Nicaragua. She has been very vocal about climate change, genocide, corporate social responsibility, and women's rights. Currently, she is a Council of Europe goodwill ambassador. She is also the founder and chair of Bianca Jagger Human Rights Foundation as well as a member of the Executive Director's leadership Council of Amnesty International, USA. In 1980, she worked hard to oppose the intervention of the U.S. government in Nicaragua after the Sandinista revolution. Bianca also opposed the death penalty and defended the rights of women and indigenous people in Latin America. She also took part in speaking up for victims of the conflicts in Serbia and Bosnia. She is also a member of the Twentieth Century Task Force to Apprehend War Criminals and a trustee of the Amazon Charitable Trust. In March 2002, Bianca decided to go to Afghanistan were she was accompanied by fourteen women which was organised by Global Exchange to support Afghan women's projects. Bianca has also served as IUCN's Global Ambassador for the Born Challenge which is a global effort to restore 150 million hectares of the world's deforested and degraded lands by 2020. Bianca Jagger has received varies awards through out her life including: United Nations Earth Day Award, Woman of the Year Title from the Boys Town of Italy, American Civil Liberties Union Award, World Citizenship Award from The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Honorary Doctorate of Human rights degree from Simmons College in Massachusetts, and many more.

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