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Bio: Amal Basha (@AmalBashaaa), Laureate of Arab Woman of the Year 2014 Award is a Yemeni human rights advocate, born in 1962, in Yemen.  Ms. Basha has spent 3 decades of her life inCSOs & HRs activism in Yemen, the Arab region & worldwide, she,therefore, is an expert in gender, women, and children’s rights with a comprehensive overview particularly in the MENA region politics, development,and social affairs.

She is Co-founder & Chairwoman for Sisters Arab Forum for Human Rights (SAF), a leading national woman’s HRs NGO based in Yemen, Advisory Board Member of the Women Network based in Bergen Norway 2015. She is also coordinator of the "Constitulizing Women's Rights Campaign" in Yemen,2013-2015.  She is a member of the National Monitoring Authority for the Outcomes of National Dialogue Conference(NDC) & was the Technical Committee spokesperson for the NDC 2013for the Transitional phase after the 2011 uprising.  She was aMember of the International Civil Society Advisory Group for UNDP Administrator Ms. Helen Clarck in New York & Advisor & Regional Coordinator for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region for the International Coalition on International Criminal Court (CICC) 2005-2009. In 2013 she was elected as Spokesperson for the National Dialogue in Yemen representing the women’s movement. Before that, she was a member of the State Building to develop Constitution Principles for the Pre- Yemeni Spring of 2011.

During her 3 decades of working in human rights, Ms. Bashahas founded and co-founded many networks Internationally Regionally, andLocally.  She Co-founded (Equality with out Reservation Regional Network) declared in Malaysia, & Co-founded “Salma”  Regional Network to Combat Domestic Violence based in Palestine. She is a Member of the Arab Network for Gender and Development, (CAWTR) in Tunis. She is Co-founder with Karamah of Women, Peace& Security Regional Network in 2013 (ARNOPS) and Women Democracy Forum for the Regional Expert Group of the International Academy for Local Authority and Democracy in Istanbul/Turkey & Co-founder of Gender Network in Yemen as of 2010.

As well, she was a Board Member of the International Foundation of the Future (FfF) based in Jordan/Amman & Board Member of the Regional Advisory Council for the International Legal Protection Mechanisms with Cairo Human Rights Studies(CIHRS), including production of Annual Regional HRs Review on the Arab World.Ms. Basha is a member of both, the HRs Advisory Council & was a member of the National Technical Committee at the Ministry of Human Rights to develop a draft Law for the Establishment of Human Rights Commission in Yemen.  Moreover, she is a Co-Founder of both (Watat)National Coalition to “Bring Women to Parliament” & was Chairperson for the United Nations Staff Association (UN Syndicate) in 1996.

She holds a License of  Law, Faculty of Law, Queen Arwa University (QAU),  Sana'a/Yemen, 2013,  BA in Political Since, Faculty of Arts &Science, the American University in Cairo, AUC, Egypt in 1988,  & Master Degree in Development & Gender,  IDS, Sussex University,Brighton, the UK in 2000, two Highest Diplomas on Empirical Research on Women Studies, from the Faculty of  Sociology,Sana’a University, Women Research Center & Public Management from the National Institute for Administrative Sciences ( NIAS) in Sana’a.

Ms. Basha is an author of “Equality Discourse in Yemeni Constitutions” the1st Edition 2013, “Towards a Gender Sensitive Constitution”  2016 & “Women’s Rolein Peace Process: Excelling in Peace” in 2015 & editor of many HRs Reports for Freedom House (FH), WEDO, EU Evaluation on HRs Programme in Egypt 2016,Transitional Phase & National Dialogue in Yemen & national NGOs Shadow(parallel) Reports submitted to the UN Treaty Bodies including CEDAW, CRC, CAT,ESCRIC, UPR, etc., since 2002.

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