SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Aminatou Haidar

1966 - Today

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Aminatou Ali Ahmed Haidar (Arabic: أميناتو علي أحمد حيدر; born 24 July 1966), sometimes spelled as Aminetou, Aminatu or Aminetu, is a Sahrawi human rights activist and an advocate of the independence of Western Sahara. She is often called the "Sahrawi Gandhi" or "Sahrawi Pasionaria" for her nonviolent protests. She is the president of the Collective of Sahrawi Human Rights Defenders (CODESA). She was imprisoned from 1987 to 1991 and from 2005 to 2006 on charges related to her independence advocacy. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Aminatou Haidar is the 539th most popular social activist (up from 543rd in 2019), the 120th most popular biography from Morocco (up from 125th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Moroccan Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Aminatou Haidar ranks 539 out of 840. Before her are Abraham Flexner, Ted Grant, Ivan Betskoy, Abdalqadir as-Sufi, Mykola Rudenko, and Agnès Callamard. After her are Dorothea Dix, Prudencia Ayala, Muthulakshmi Reddy, Lucy Parsons, Ekaterina Karavelova, and John Peters Humphrey.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1966, Aminatou Haidar ranks 252. Before her are Chris Renaud, Tamlyn Tomita, Atsushi Sakurai, Betinho, Oh Eun-sun, and Najwa Karam. After her are Vivian Wu, Trine Hattestad, Brian Shaw, Riyad Farid Hijab, Viatcheslav Ekimov, and Jan Boklöv.

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In Morocco

Among people born in Morocco, Aminatou Haidar ranks 120 out of 264. Before her are Maati Bouabid (1927), Hicham El Guerrouj (1974), Hadi Dahane (1946), Allal Benkassou (1941), Mohamed Timoumi (1960), and Mohamed Benhima (1924). After her are Daniel Sanchez (1953), RedOne (1972), Alber Elbaz (1961), Gérard Soler (1954), Jean-Paul Bertrand-Demanes (1952), and Boujemaa Benkhrif (1947).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Morocco

Among social activists born in Morocco, Aminatou Haidar ranks 3. Before her are Mordechai Vanunu (1954), and Abdallah ibn Yasin (null). After her are Latifa Ibn Ziaten (1960).

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