Fatima Ahmed Ibrahim
Fatima Ahmed Ibrahim ( Arabic فاطمة أحمد إبراهيم, DMG Fāṭima Aḥmad Ibrāhīm ; * December 20, 1934 in Khartoum in Khartoum; † August 12, 2017 in London ) was a Sudanese human rights activist , women's rights activist and communist party activist.
Life
Fatima Ahmed Ibrahim was born in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, in 1934. Since 1952 she has been involved in the Sudanese Women's Union, and in 1954 she joined the Sudanese Communist Party . In 1965 Fatima became the first woman to become a member of the Sudanese parliament.
In 1969 she married Ibrahim al-Shafi '. In 1971, her husband was tortured and murdered by the Abbud military regime while Fatima was interrogated and sentenced to two and a half years of house arrest.
In 1990 she emigrated to London with her son . In 1993 she received the UN award for her commitment to human rights . Since the peace agreement between the central government in Khartoum and South Sudan in 2005, she lived again in Sudan and was again a member of parliament. On December 8, 2006, she was awarded the Ibn Ruschd Prize in Berlin for her commitment to women's rights, freedom of expression and social justice in Sudan.
On March 19, 2007, she resigned from all leadership positions in the Communist Party, Parliament and the Women's Union to give younger candidates a chance.
She died on August 12, 2017 in London at the age of 84.
Works
- حصادنا خلال عشرين عاماً / Ḥasādunā ḫilāl ʿišrīn ʿāmman / 'Our harvest of 20 years', Sudanese Women's Union Press, Khartoum, undated .
- طريقنا للتحرر / Ṭarīqunā li-t-Taḥarrur / 'Our path to emancipation', no date.
- المرأة العربية والتغيير الاجتماعي / al-Marʾa al-ʿArabiyya wa-t-Taġyīr al-Iǧtimāʿī / 'Women and Social Change', 1986.
- حول قضايا الأحوال الشخصية / Ḥaula Qaḍāyā al-aḥwāl aš-šaḫṣiyya / 'Personal status matters '.
- قضايا المرأة العاملة السودانية / Qaḍāyā al-Marʾa al-ʿāmila as-sūdāniyya / 'The affairs of Sudanese women workers'.
- ! آن آوان التغيير ولكن / Ān Āwān at-Taġyīr wa-lākin! / 'But it's time for changes!'
- أطفالنا والرعاية الصحية / Atfālunā wa-r-Riʿāya aṣ-ṣiḥḥiyya / 'Our children and health care'.
- Arrow at Rest , in: Mahnaz Afkhami (Ed.): Women in Exile , University Press of Virginia, 1994, pp. 191-208.
- Sudan's Attack on Women's Rights Exploits Islam , Africa News 37, No. 5, 1992, p. 5.
Awards and honors
- 1993 UN Award
- 2006 Ibn Ruschd Prize
Web links
- A Sudanese woman fighting despotism: The women's rights activist Fatima Ahmed Ibrahim receives the Ibn Rushd Prize for Free Thought 2006. Suzan Hijab / ursprung-origin.de, archived from the original on February 12, 2013 ; accessed on August 13, 2017 .
- Mariantonietta Peru: Profiles: Fatima Ahmad Ibrahim, veteran Sudanese communist leader. Article of the " BBC Monitoring Service" in the Sudan Tribune, May 6, 2007 (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Friends and foes unite to honor Sudan's first female MP. In: middleeastmonitor.com. Middle East Monitor, 2017, accessed January 3, 2020 (UK English).
- ↑ Prominent Sudanese feminist passes away . Middle East Monitor, August 12, 2017, accessed August 13, 2017.
- ↑ Fatima Ahmed retires from Sudanese Communist Party, parliament. Sudan Tribune, March 20, 2007, accessed August 13, 2017.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ibrahim, Fatima Ahmed |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Sudanese women's and human rights activist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 20, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Khartoum , Sudan |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 12, 2017 |
| Place of death | London |