Amal Basha
Amal Basha is a Yemeni women's rights activist, chair of the (SAF). As the chair of SAF, she "defends the rights of women, prisoners and refugees, and fights for more political freedoms."[1]
In April 2013 she publicly confronted Sheikh Sadiq al-Ahmar in the conference hall of Yemen's National Dialogue Conference: Ahmar seemed to be backing away from appointing feminist Nabila al-Zubair as chair of the body deciding the future of the disputed city of Sa'dah until Basha gave him this "public flaying".[2]
She won the Takreem Arab Woman of the Year Award in 2014. In 2015, she spoke at the Women's Power to Stop War Conference.[3]
References[]
- ^ "Amal Basha". Salzburg Global Seminar. Retrieved 16 October 2015.
- ^ Farea al-Muslimi, Yemen's National Dialogue is already faltering Archived 2015-04-27 at the Wayback Machine, Executive Magazine, April 16, 2013.
- ^ Ford, Liz (30 April 2015). "Yemen Conflict Must End Without Delay, Demand Female Peace Activists". The Guardian. Retrieved 16 October 2015.
External links[]
- Interview with Amal Basha, Chairperson of the Sisters’ Arab Forum for Human Rights (SAF), Yemen, fidh.org, 7 March 2011
Categories:
- Yemeni women's rights activists
- Living people