Fadia Najeeb Thabet
Fadia Najeeb Thabet | |
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SIT Graduate Institute | |
| Known for | Human rights activist |
Fadia Najeeb Thabet (
Arabic: فادية نجيب ثابت) is a Yemeni post graduate student in America. In 2017 she was given an International Women of Courage Award
for six years of work she did before 2016 as a child protection officer in Yemen.
Life
For six years she was a child protection officer in Yemen. She was caring for traumatised children.Yemeni civil war. She provided evidence to the United Nations of cases of human rights violations by various groups.[2]
She moved to the United States in 2016 as a Hubert H. Humphrey Fellow. She decided to take a master's degree in Washington DC at the
SIT Graduate Institute.[1]
In March 2017 she became an International Women of Courage Award recipient.[3]
References
- ^ a b "Fadia Najib Thabet receives International Women of Courage Award | SIT Graduate Institute". graduate.sit.edu. Archived from the original on 2018-07-07. Retrieved 2017-08-26.
- ^ "Biographies of the Finalists for the 2017 Intbernational Women of Courage Awards". US Department of State. Archived from the original on 29 March 2017. Retrieved 26 August 2017.
- ^ "Honoring Women of Courage - Middle East and Europe". Voice of America. 12 April 2017. Retrieved 26 August 2017.