"She tried to save the world but could not save herself," her brother wrote of Ms. Lieblich, who traveled the world shining a light on human rights abuses.
Decades after trying to persuade the US Supreme Court to overrule the right to abortion in most instances, Mr. Fried wrote in 2021 that overturning Roe v. Wade now "would be an act of constitutional vandalism not conservative, but reactionary."
"Ruth was a relentless dynamo,” said former NBC and CBS news correspondent Marvin Kalb, who praised her precise writing and her "strength, good sense, and absolute determination."