The year 2020 has left many epic championships to overcome the difficult adversities that afflicted the world, whether through the pandemic itself and the struggle to control the outbreak of the epidemic, or the ability to continue giving despite the challenges posed by the pandemic.

Women, volunteers and activists formed a wall against hunger, school dropout, protection from harassment and other critical and necessary humanitarian issues that are indispensable even in the presence of a pandemic that kills the world, which made many of the heroines who fought in the first ranks, whether against Corona or against Corona Any enemy of humanity in this difficult year.

Although they are many, we will remember 4 women who wrote exceptional tournaments in 2020.

Aisha Issoufou

Born in Kano State, Nigeria, in 1974, Aisha married in 1996 and has two children.

She became a political and social activist in her country, and participated in organizing (Somaya Movement ... Return Our Girls), a women's advocacy group that focuses its efforts on drawing attention to the kidnapping of more than 200 girls from a high school in Chibok, Nigeria, on April 14, 2014, by gunmen. Boko Haram.

Aisha was among the demonstrators in the Nigerian National Assembly in the capital Abuja, which was condemning the kidnapping. Aisha also led the movements in support of ending the violations of a police unit in the Nigerian forces called the Special Anti-Theft Squad.

“Some people say that a woman’s voice should not be heard, especially Muslim women,” Aisha said in an interview to the local press. But with time in history, there have been exceptional women, who stood out in the Islamic world and achieved many achievements. We have women like Aisha, the husband of the Prophet Muhammad May God bless him and grant him peace, they will defend justice and will not tolerate any form of injustice. "

Rima Sultana

Rima Sultana is 18 years old, and as defined by the United Nations, she is a peace activist and part of the Young Women for Leadership Network in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, which is a program within the Global Peacebuilding Network made up of women, supported by UN Women.

Sultana runs workshops on women's and youth participation in peacebuilding, and educates young women about their rights through the use of educational theater and radio programs.

UN Women spoke with Rima on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of UN Security Council Resolution 1325, which continues to shape the Women, Peace and Security agenda.

"When I look around, I see that women and girls in the Rohingya community are seen as being less than men, and they are not given the same rights and opportunities, as their culture is very traditional and they have endured conflict, violence and displacement," Sultana said in the UN publication.

"When girls and women are not treated on the basis of equality, there can be no real opportunity to achieve a strong and peaceful society. Girls in the camps face many problems every day such as child marriage, street harassment, and sexual violence. I feel that it is my duty to do something to try." To make life easier for refugee women and girls, and I try to create a more peaceful and equal society.

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She graduated from Aparso School in 2015 and Miss Hall College in 2016, with a BA in Politics and Human Rights from the American University of Beirut.

At the age of 18, Abah Ali established her own organization in 2015 called "Raju: Hope in Somaliland Society", where she teaches orphans and Somali students deprived of education, and his toys became a teacher at the Hargeisa Orphanage Center.

Her dedication has inspired and motivated orphans to learn despite the daily problems they face. Even some of the orphans she taught are now studying in schools in the United States of America.

After her graduation from university, she committed to returning to her homeland and rebuilding her country, and Obah and her team were among the most prominent winners of the MasterCard Foundation award in 2018-2019, as their goal was to eliminate all forms of female genital mutilation (FGM) in all communities in Somaliland. It has been largely successful in raising awareness of stopping FGM / C through education and empowerment of women.

Nisreen Alwan

Nisreen Elwan is an Associate Professor of Public Health at the University of Southampton, and an Honorary Counselor in Public Health at the University of Southampton Hospital of the National Health Organization in the United Kingdom, and she has a special interest in the field of maternal and child health. This is with the health of the newborns in the long run.

During the "Covid-19" pandemic, Nasreen contributed to the medical alert in the United Kingdom by coordinating and leading many groups and senior academics in the field of public health in the United Kingdom, and tried hard to raise awareness of the disease.

Alwan studied medicine at the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom, obtained the royal membership of doctors, pursued her medical career through research, as well as a master's degree in epidemiology statistics and a doctorate in epidemiological nutritional sciences.

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Beware of victim blaming.

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- Dr Nisreen Alwan 🌻 (@ Dr2NisreenAlwan) July 25, 2020

The year 2020 left many human losses due to the pandemic, but it also left behind soldiers and epic heroics in how to complete livelihoods despite the pandemic. More solid generations and women able to make a difference have emerged, and the pandemic and harsh conditions did not prevent more inspiring stories from emerging in the lives of societies. Especially Arab and Islamic.