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Amira Yahyaoui
Tunisian entrepreneur and activist (born 1984) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Amira Yahyaoui (Arabic: أميرة اليحياوي; born August 6, 1984) is a Tunisian entrepreneur, blogger and human rights activist. She was previously the Founder and President of Al Bawsala, a multi-awarded transparency and accountability NGO.
Amira Yahyaoui أميرة اليحياوي | |
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Born | August 6, 1984 Tunis, (native Ksar Hadada) |
Nationality | Tunisia |
Yahyaoui is a 2016 Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum, a Middle East and North Africa advisor for Amnesty International and a board member of UNHCR’s Advisory Group on Gender, Forced Displacement, and Protection. She has received many international awards for her activism, including Vital Voices Trailblazer Female Leadership award, the Foundation Chirac Prize for Conflict Prevention, and has been selected multiple times as one world’s most powerful and influential Arab and African women.