Fatma El Mehdi (also Fatma Mehdi Hassan) is a Western Saharan activist. She is currently the secretary general of the National Union of Sahrawi Women. El Mehdi is also the first Western Saharan woman to attend a United Nations conference for women's rights. She has also served as president of the Women's Committee and Equality in Economic, Social and African Cultural Council (ECOSOCC). El Mehdi has lived in an Algerian refugee camp for about forty years.
Childhood
When she was seven, in 1975, she was evacuated from El Aaiún, and she walked for days until she came to the refugee camp.
References
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