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Amnesty International's Deputy Regional Director Sarah Jackson said: "Today's ruling is a small step to redressing the injustice done to Meriam." [48] The Italian Prime Minister, Matteo Renzi, mentioned Ibrahim's case in his speech at the European Parliament. [34] After that, The EU passed a Resolution condemning Sudan over treatment of Meriam ...
Zeinab Badawi (Arabic: زينب بدوي; born October 1959) [1] is a Sudanese-British television and radio journalist.She was the first presenter of the ITV Morning News (later known as ITV News at 5:30), [2] and co-presented Channel 4 News with Jon Snow from 1989 to 1998 before joining BBC News.
The adolescent fertility rate is a measurement of adolescent births per 1,000 women. This is a general indicator of the burden of fertility on young women in a country. The rate for Sudan in 2011 was 61.9 per 1,000. [19] Reproductive health is another critical component of women's health in Sudan.
Hon. Jemma Nunu Kumba (born 1966) is a South Sudanese politician.She is the current Minister of Gender, Child and Social Welfare of South Sudan. She founded the Sudan women Parliamentary Caucus in 2004 at the start of the comprehensive peace agreement.
In 1956–57, Fatima became the president of the Women's Union. One of her objectives was for the independence of the union from their affiliation with and domination by the SCP, and she widened the participation of women with difference backgrounds. In 1965 Fatima was elected to parliament, becoming the first Sudanese women deputy. [1]
She is the second woman to hold that position after Asma Mohamed Abdalla. [ 1 ] After the October 2021 Sudanese coup d'état , the Financial Times listed al-Mahdi as one of the 25 most influential women of 2021 and described her "as one of [the military's] most outspoken critics and as a voice for all the women who took to the streets to ...
She is regarded as the patron saint of both the country [26] and the Catholic Church in Sudan. Caritas Bakhita House in London, which provides accommodation and support for women escaping human trafficking, is named in her honour. [27] Today, Catholics teach that Bakhita's legacy is that transformation is possible through suffering.
The SWU was Pan-Africanist in its early years. It organised women's solidarity actions for women and against apartheid in Zambia, South Africa and Namibia; in protest against the 1961 execution of Patrice Lumumba in the Republic of the Congo; in protest against the arrest of Djamila Bouhired, [1] an Algerian anti-colonial activist who in 2019 participated in 2019 Algerian street protests; [5 ...