Amira Yahyaoui
Tunisian activist
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.
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 recognized multiple times as one world’s most influential Arab/African women.
Early life
Amira Yahyaoui was born in Tunis, from a family native of Ksar Hadada. She is the daughter of Tunisian judge Mokhtar Yahyaoui.
Yahyaoui comes from a family of human rights activists. Her father Mokhtar Yahyaoui was an opponent to the government of former Tunisian President Ben Ali. He was dismissed after writing about the lack of justice in Tunisia, and put under constant house surveillance for years. Her cousin Zouhair Yahyaoui was an economist who founded the satirical website TUNeZINE. He died in 2005 after being persecuted and tortured by the government for his objections to censorship in Tunisia.
Human rights activist career
Dissident under Ben Ali's Regime
When she was 16, Yahyaoui started a blog criticizing the regime of Ben Ali and highlighting its human rights abuses.
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