Yara Sallam

Quick Facts

Full Name	Yara Sallam
Occupation	Human Rights Activist
Date Of Birth	Nov 24, 1985(1985-11-24)
Age	39
Birthplace	Cairo
Country	Egypt
Birth City	Cairo Governorate
Horoscope	Scorpio

Yara Sallam Biography

Yara Sallam is one of the most popular and richest Human Rights Activist who was born on November 24, 1985 in Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt. Yara Sallam (Arabic yr rft slWm ), a prominent Egyptian feminist activist and human rights advocate, was born November 24, 1985. She worked as a researcher and lawyer for many Egyptian and international human rights organisations, as well the African Commission for Human and Peoples Rights (ACHPR).

She joined the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights in June 2013 as a researcher at the Transitional Justice Unit. She was the one who documented the brutal repression of protests against the government in the fall and summer of 2013, which resulted in over 1000 deaths.

In prison, Sallam has continued to defend other people’s human rights. In July 2014, Egypt’s government-affiliated National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) sent investigators to El-Qanater Prison to interview women detainees in the case about their treatment. The women activists declined to meet with the visitors, and delegated Yara Sallam and Salwa Mehrez to inform them “that if they want to know the reality of the situation in prison, they should be meeting other detainees who are in much worse condition and experience more abuse.” Shortly before the arrest of Sallam and her colleagues, Egyptian human rights organizations documented widespread patterns of torture and sexual abuse of women detainees at El-Qanater, where many supporters of the banned Muslim Brotherhood are also held. On October 26, a Heliopolis misdemeanor court sentenced Ettehadiya case defendants including Yara charged with violating the protest law to three years in prison and a 10 thousand Egyptian- pound fine.

Egyptian activists called for an international day of solidarity in opposition to the protest law, for June 21, 2014. On that day, a demonstration numbering at least several hundred people gathered in the Heliopolis neighborhood of Cairo and moved toward the presidential palace. Men in civilian clothes attacked the protesters with broken bottles and rocks, without interference from the police, while uniformed security forces fired tear gas. The security forces arrested 30 or more demonstrators, among them Yara Sallam and her cousin, who were seized while buying water from a kiosk. Sallam’s cousin was freed the same night, but, according to Amnesty International, “Yara Sallam was kept in detention after security forces discovered she works at the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR).” Detainees later released from jail told local human rights organizations that “a number of the arrested protesters were beaten and threatened to be charged with belonging to the banned Muslim Brotherhood” or the revolutionary April 6 Youth Movement.

On November 24, 2013, Adly Mansour, acting president, signed a new Egyptian law against protests. In the absence of any democratically elected authority, the law was passed by decree and gives the government broad powers to approve or prohibit any demonstration. Protesters “calling to disrupt public interests” are subject to a 2-5 year sentence. This law was quickly applied to the arrest of prominent dissidents Alaa AbdEl-Fattah, Mahienour El Massry, and many other peaceful antigovernment protesters.

Yara Sallam Net Worth

Yara Sallam is one of the richest Human Rights Activist from Egypt. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Yara Sallam 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Sallam studied law. She received a law degree at Cairo University in 2007, and a Maitrise (commercial law) from Pantheon-Sorbonne University, Paris, France, in 2007. She studied abroad and earned a Master of Laws (LL.M. In 2010, she graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a Master of Laws degree (LL.M.) in International Human Rights Law. She also worked as a professional human rights activist in Egypt while pursuing her degrees. She was a researcher in Cairo at the Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement, a French think tank, and studied the impact of policy and divorce law on Egyptian women’s lives. She joined later the Civil Freedoms Unit of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, a prominent domestic human rights organization. She was primarily concerned with violence and discrimination against religious minorities. Hossam Bahgat (founder of the EIPR) later recalled that Yara was able to do professional work while still keeping her emotions in check. In 2009, there were attacks against the Baha’is home in a village near Sohag. I recall walking into Yara’s office as she was taking a telephone testimony from a 70 year-old woman. The woman had lost her house and was expelled from her village. Her only hope was to go back to her home to die. Yara hung it up and put her phone down beside her. She then began writing on the computer, while bursting into tears.

Sallam, who received her LL.M in Law, moved to The Gambia as a legal assistant for the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights. After the 2011 Revolution, Sallam returned to Egypt and was hired by Nazra For Feminist Studies, an organization that promotes women’s rights, to lead its Women’s Human Rights Defenders Program. In 2013, the Pan-African Human Rights Defenders Network awarded her the North African Human Rights Defender Shield Award for her work documenting abuses against women activists. Sallam described the situation for Egypt’s women in 2013 and said that “not only does the government not accept responsibility for human rights violations such as violence against women increasing to the point of rape in Tahrir Square but also allows officials to blame women for sexual assault.” … The fight continues against the regime and civil groups that aren’t convinced of the need to push for women being included in the public sphere.”

Sallam also told an interviewer in 2013 that her interest in human rights emerged at the age of 15, when “I was a member in Al-Nosoor al-Sagheera (The Young Eagles), which was working on children’s rights.” According to the Egyptian online newspaper Mada Masr, “The group attracted middle-class families with leftist leanings and who sent their children to the group’s meetings and camps in the 1990s and early 2000s. The group contributed to engaging these children with human rights issues.”

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Yara Ranked on the list of most popular Human Rights Activist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Egypt. Yara Sallam celebrates birthday on November 24 of every year.