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Salih Mahmoud Osman

1957 - Today

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Salih Mahmoud Osman (Arabic: صالح محمود عثمان, romanized: Ṣāliḥ Maḥmūd ʻUthmān; born 1957 in Darfur) is a Sudanese human rights lawyer. Osman is well known for having provided free legal representation to hundreds of victims of ethnic violence (human rights activist) in Sudan over more than two decades. He is from the Jebel Mara area in central Darfur, western Sudan. He has been widely honored for his work on human rights issues in Sudan, receiving the Human Rights Watch award in 2005, the International Human Rights Award from the American Bar Association in 2006, and was included in European Voices 50 most influential persons in Europe in 2007. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Salih Mahmoud Osman is the 601st most popular social activist (up from 650th in 2019), the 28th most popular biography from Sudan (up from 29th in 2019) and the most popular Sudanese Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Salih Mahmoud Osman ranks 601 out of 840. Before him are Berta Cáceres, Denis Goldberg, Akira Amano, Mamie Till, Luisa Cuesta, and Hu Jia. After him are Sylvia Rivera, Shin Dong-hyuk, Anna Aloys Henga, Iqbal Masih, Martin Luther King III, and Dolores Huerta.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1957, Salih Mahmoud Osman ranks 431. Before him are Kausea Natano, Paul Steiner, Sabit Hadžić, Hannelore Anke, Murat Zyazikov, and Faisal Al-Dakhil. After him are Robert Lepage, Mitsuko Horie, Hipólito Rincón, Mike Bossy, Marino Lejarreta, and Shari Arison.

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In Sudan

Among people born in Sudan, Salih Mahmoud Osman ranks 28 out of 38. Before him are Manute Bol (1962), Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf (1954), Babiker Awadalla (1917), Alexander Siddig (1965), Mo Ibrahim (1946), and Hemedti (1975). After him are Abubaker Kaki Khamis (1989), Awadeya Mahmoud (1963), Almoez Ali (1996), Ismail Ahmed Ismail (1984), Abdalelah Haroun (1997), and Marco Arop (1998).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Sudan

Among social activists born in Sudan, Salih Mahmoud Osman ranks 1. 

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