Fatou Kiné Camara

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Fatou Kiné Camara (2014)

Fatou Kiné Camara (born December 29, 1964 in Dakar ) is a Senegalese lawyer and women's rights activist . She has a doctorate in law and works as a lecturer and researcher. She has supported reform campaigns in many legal areas and is particularly committed to improving the availability of abortion and free legal advice.

Life

Camara's father, Ousmane Camara , was a judge in the French colonial authorities and later a minister in the government of the first President of Senegal, Léopold Sédar Senghor . After Senghor's resignation in December 1980, her father became Senegal's ambassador to the United Kingdom, and Camara joined him and completed her secondary education in London. She studied law at the University of Panthéon-Assas (Faculty of Law of the Sorbonne) in Paris and received her doctorate in the same subject in 1988 from the Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar in Dakar. Camara is President of the Senegalese Women Lawyers Association.

Camara became a lecturer and researcher and at the same time worked to improve the rights of women and children in Senegal. She has campaigned for reforms of the constitution, family and electoral law, and laws on violence against women. Camara advocates abortion rights and the decriminalization of homosexuality.

Senegal's abortion laws are among the most restrictive in Africa, with prison sentences of up to 10 years for women who undergo the procedure. For an abortion to be legal, three doctors must certify that the woman will otherwise die. Since each certificate cost 10,000 CFA francs , the poor are disadvantaged. Camara is campaigning for the law to be amended in accordance with the Maputo Protocol (African Charter of Women's Rights), which Senegal signed in 2004, to allow abortion in the event of rape , incest or if a woman's health is at risk .

Camara also supports a program to train “Parajuristes” (parishioners with basic legal training) who are supposed to be the first point of contact in the event of disputes. They offer free legal advice to those who cannot afford lawyers.

Awards and honors

In 2010 she received a human rights award for the 50th anniversary of the independence of African states.

Works

  • with Saaliu Sammba Malaado Kanji, Abdoulaye-Bara Diop: L'union matrimoniale dans la tradition des peuples noirs . Montréal (Québec), Paris, Montréal 2000, ISBN 2-7384-9187-1 .
  • Pouvoir et justice dans la tradition des peuples noirs: philosophy et pratique . L'Harmattan, Paris 2004, ISBN 2-7475-6656-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ousmane Camara: Mémoires d'un juge africain. Itinéraire d'un homme libre . KARTHALA Editions, 2010, ISBN 978-2-8111-3292-7 ( books.google.fr ).
  2. ^ A b c Collectif, Antoinette Fouque, Mireille Calle-Gruber, Béatrice Didier: Le Dictionnaire universel des créatrices . Éditions des femmes, 2015, ISBN 978-2-7210-0651-6 ( books.google.fr ).
  3. ↑ a b c d Alex Duval Smith: Senegalese law bans raped 10-year-old from aborting twins . In: The Guardian . 2014, ISSN  0261-3077 ( theguardian.com ).
  4. ↑ LERAL NEWS: Fatou Kiné Camara: "Interdire l'avortement médicalisé aux femmes violées est un crime against l'humanité". In: leral.net. Leral.net - S'informer en temps réel, accessed on February 13, 2020 (French).
  5. ↑ Amadou L. Mbaye: Fatou Kiné Camara: "Au Sénégal, il ya 51,000 avortements clandestins par an". In: senenews.com. SeneNews.com, accessed February 13, 2020 (Fri-FR).
  6. ↑ Fatou Kiné Camara, la femme qui demande la légalisation de l'homosexualité au Sénégal - seneweb.com. In: seneweb.com. Societe, 2020, archived from the original on February 28, 2017 ; accessed on February 13, 2020 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Camara, Fatou Kine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Senegalese lawyer and women's rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Dakar