Hanan Alsanah - Human Rights Awards 2025 (Social media cut)

Описание: Human Rights Awards 2025 - Winner Videos - Hanan Alsanah:

A trailblazing Bedouin lawyer, feminist, and social entrepreneur, Hanan Alsanah is Co-Executive Director of Itach-Ma’aki: Women Lawyers for Social Justice. Based in Be’er Sheva, she has spent over 20 years advancing equality for Bedouin women and unrecognised villages in the Negev.

Hanan founded the first women’s community centre in an unrecognised Bedouin village and launched Israel’s first feminist Arabic-language newspaper, distributed across 45 villages. Her advocacy has brought schools, clinics, and vital services to communities long denied recognition.

On the international stage, she was the first Bedouin woman to represent her community before the UN’s Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and continues to promote women’s leadership in governance and peacebuilding.

In the wake of Oct 7, she co-founded a joint Jewish-Arab Emergency Relief Centre in Rahat, delivering aid to thousands of families. Her story is also told in the documentary Her War – Hanan.

Hanan, the first in her family to earn a law degree, has become one of Israel’s most dynamic voices for justice, women’s rights, and shared society.