Asma Khalifa

libya

Biography

• Asma is and activist and researcher focused on women's rights an youth empowerment.
• She is not Arab but "Berber", or self-known as Amazigh, an indigenous group of people native to north Africa.
• She was forced to conform to the Qaddafi regime, which prohibited her from practicing Amazigh culture

Accomplishments

• On May 25th 2016, Asma received the Luxembourg Peace Prize during The World Peace Forum
• At 21, she joined a rebel group against the regime, but left, forming her own union because of the rebel's violence
• She currently works for the United Nations refugee agency and founded Amazigh Women's Rights.

Accomplishments cont..

• Asma is a co-founder at Tamazight Women Movement, which focuses on gender equality and research on the indigenous women of Libya and North Africa

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Asma Khalifa earned her title as being on the Top 100 list. She was brave enough to fight during the Qaddafi regime; putting her life in danger, losing a friend, as well as fighting his sexual harassment of women. Her non-violent way of protesting for women's rights in Africa and empowering young people is inspiring and I believe more people should follow her footsteps. Feminism is an important subject and while many think it is not needed here in America anymore, that is far from the truth.
Not to mention that protests here in America should be as peaceful and informative as she makes hers. Here, individuals seems to protest without informing others on the actual problem they are trying to defeat, so others tend to be misinformed by them and immediately try to silence their voices and counter-protest in fear of their rights being taken away, however they are doing the same without realizing. Peace should be the number one thing on everyone's mind during a conflict