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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 and is a 2023 Echoing Green Fellow.
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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.