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Mozn Hassan

HRD, Director
Nazra for Feminist Studies
Case HistoryStatus: Travel ban
Rights: 
#Gender/Women's Rights
Violations:
#Judicial Harassment
#Travel Ban
Location: 
#Egypt
Charlotte Bunch Human Rights Defender Award
2013
Global Fund for Women Awards Egyptian WHRD Charlotte Bunch Human Rights Defender Award
Head of women’s rights organisation remains defiant Article
2016
Guardian: Egyptian feminist leader Mozn Hassan resolute in face of official investigation
Right Livelihood Award
2016
Mozn Hassan wins the 2016 Right Livelihood Award
Financial Times Article
2016
Egyptian feminist Mozn Hassan, who fights for rights despite the risks

Mozn Hassan is an Egyptian human rights defender and the Executive Director of Nazra for Feminist Studies, a group that aims to build an Egyptian feminist movement and supports women human rights defenders through legal and psychological interventions. Mozn has extensively worked on numerous feminist issues in Egypt and the Middle East since 2001 including violence against women in the public space. Mozn Hassan is the recipient of the Charlotte Bunch Women Human Rights Defenders Award in 2013.

Egypt

A significant crackdown on civil society in Egypt has been taking place since 2014. HRDs face an extremely challenging situation due to restrictions imposed on civil society and peaceful public gatherings and protests, travel bans, the arrest and sentencing of HRDs, bloggers, journalists and protesters, as well as an ongoing smear campaign against human rights groups.

#Egypt
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