Leah Levin
Leah Levin OBE was a Lithuanian-born British human rights activist.
Biography
Levin was born Sarah Leah Kacev on 1 April 1926 in Lithuania and grew up as Leah Katzeff in Piketberg, South Africa.Levin attended University of Cape Town and the University of Zimbabwe. Levin was director of the Justice organisation from 1982 to 1992. Under her tenure the organisation helped to free the Birmingham Six.
She was an honorary graduate at the University of Essex. She was the author of UNESCO's Human Rights: Questions and Answers, which is one of the world's most widely disseminated books on human rights.