Hawa Abdallah Mohammed Salih

Salih with Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton.

Hawa Abdallah Mohammed Salih (Arabic: حواء عبد الله محمد صالح) is a Sudanese activist.[1] She was born in North Darfur but had to leave due to fighting between government forces and Darfuri rebels.[2] She moved to Abu Shouk internally displaced persons camp, where she worked with United Nations officials and the American NGO IRC to spread information and awareness about the conditions in the camp.[2] For her work she was arrested three times, and kidnapped twice by National Security and detained, including a time in 2011 when she was held for two months and tortured and raped in a state prison in Khartoum.[2][3] She had to flee Sudan in 2011.[1]

She received a 2012 International Women of Courage award.[1][4]

She won asylum in the United States.[5] She was represented on a pro bono basis by Mary Gay Scanlon, later a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.[6]

References

  1. ^ a b c "2012 International Women of Courage Award Winners". state.gov. Archived from the original on 8 March 2012.
  2. ^ a b c "Darfur Activist Hawa Abdallah Mohammed Salih visits Minnesota". Twin Cities Daily Planet. 17 March 2012.
  3. ^ "Pittsburgh salutes Hawa Salih, heroine of Darfur". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
  4. ^ "Darfuri activist awarded in Washington". Radio Dabanga. Archived from the original on 5 September 2014.
  5. ^ "Darfur refugee, advocate speaks out, shares story". Winston-Salem Journal. 15 February 2013.
  6. ^ Olson, Laura (14 November 2018). "Pennsylvania once again has a woman in Congress". The Morning Call. Archived from the original on 18 November 2018. Retrieved 16 November 2018.