AMIRA YAHYAOUI
Amira Yahyaoui (nada o 6 de agosto de 1984 en Ksar Hadada, Túnez) é unha blogueira e activista política, defensora dos dereitos humanos e fundadora de Al Bawsala, unha ONG que traballa no ámbito da política e a responsabilidade pública.
Al Bawsala promove a transparencia e o bo goberno nas institucións públicas, e a defensa dos dereitos e liberdades fundamentais dos cidadáns en Túnez. Para iso, vixía o traballo do Parlamento, a Asamblea Costitucional e os concellos tunecinos, e publica o que está pasando online para os seus miles de seguidores en internet.
Amira vén dunha familia de activistas polos dereitos humanos. Cando tiña 16 anos, o seu pai, un xuíz, foi despedido polo Presidente Zine El Abidine Ben Ali tras escribir sobre a falta de xustiza en Túnez. O seu curmán era un economista que fundou o website satírico TUNeZINE. Morreu en 2005 despois de ser perseguido e torturado polo goberno, pola súa oposición á censura en Túnez.
Foi forzada a exiliarse do seu país natal polo seu activismo no movemento que loitou en contra da censura e a favor da liberdade de expresión, e por non deixar de protestar contra o goberno de Ben Ali. Fuxiu a París, onde permaneceu como desprazada durante varios anos e estudiou Matemáticas, ata que o antigo líder foi derrocado na revolución popular tunecina de 2011, que daría lugar á Primaveira Árabe. Durante a revolución foi unha blogueira activa e defensora dos dereitos das mulleres, e despois voltou a Túnez, onde estaba tendo lugar a transición e a redacción da constitución tunecina.
En 2012 gañou o Global Trailblazers Award por ser unha das mulleres que están transformando Oriente Medio e o norte de África. Foi nomeada unha das mulleres árabes máis poderosas por Arabian Business Magazine.
“Temos que mostrarlle ó mundo que nós, Tunecinos, Árabes, Musulmáns, podemos darlles ás mulleres os seus dereitos”
Amira Yahyaoui (born August 6, 1984 in Ksar Hadada, Tunisia) is a blogger and political activist, human rights activist and founder of Al Bawsala, an NGO working in the field of public policy and accountability.
Al Bawsala promotes transparency and good governance in public institutions, and the defense of fundamental rights and freedoms of citizens in Tunisia. To do this, it watches the work of Parliament, the Constitutional Assembly and the Tunisian municipalities, and it publishes what is happening online for its thousands of followers on the Internet.
Amira comes from a family of human rights activists. When she was 16 years old, his father, a judge, was dismissed by President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali after writing about the lack of justice in Tunisia. Her cousin was an economist who founded the satirical website TUNeZINE. He died in 2005 after being persecuted and tortured by the government, for his opposition to censorship in Tunisia.
She was forced to exile from her native country for her activism in the movement that fought against censorship and in favor of freedom of expression, and for not to stop protesting against the government of Ben Ali. She fled to Paris, where she remained as a displaced person for several years and studied Mathematics, until the former leader was overthrown in the 2011 Tunisian popular revolution, which would give rise to the Arab Spring. During the revolution, she was an active blogger and women's rights advocate, and then she returned to Tunisia, where the transition and writing of the Tunisian constitution was taking place.
In 2012 she won the Global Trailblazers Award for being one of the women who are transforming the Middle East and North Africa. She was named one of the most powerful Arab women by Arabian Business Magazine.
"We have to show the world that we, Tunisians, Arabs, Muslims, can give women their rights"