Fatima Hassan

About Fatima

Fatima Hassan is a human rights lawyer and social justice activist and the founder of the HJI.

She is the recipient of the 2022 Calgary Peace Prize.

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She has dedicated her professional life to defending and promoting human rights in South Africa, especially in the field of HIV/AIDS where she worked for the AIDS Law Project and also acted for the Treatment Action Campaign in many of its legal cases.

Qualifications

Positions

Fatima is a former co-director and a founding Trustee of Ndifuna Ukwazi, and previously served on the Boards of the Raith Foundation; SA Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF-SA); the International Treatment Preparedness Coalition (ITPC); and the SA Council for Medical Schemes. She is the former Director of the Open Society Foundations for South Africa (OSF-SA). She currently serves on the Board of Global Witness and is on the Advisory Group for Resolve to Save Lives and is an Honorary Research Associate at the UCT School of Public Health & Family Medicine.

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