Fadia Najeeb Thabet is a

Yemen Yemen (; ar, ٱلْيَمَن, al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen,, ) is a country in Western Asia. It is situated on the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula, and borders Saudi Arabia to the Saudi Arabia–Yemen border, north and ...

i post graduate student in America. In 2017 she was given an

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for six years of work she did before 2016 as a child protection officer in Yemen.

Life

For six years she was a child protection officer in Yemen. She was caring for traumatised children. She prevented boys from being recruited and radicalised. She helped prevent them from joining terrorists groups like the Houthis and

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and its local branch Ansar al Sharia and becoming child soldiers in the

Yemeni civil war Yemeni Civil War may refer to several historical events which have taken place in Yemen: *Alwaziri coup, February – March 1948 *Yemeni–Adenese clan violence, 1956–60 *North Yemen Civil War, 1962–70 *Aden Emergency, 1963–67 *South Yemen#Di ...

. She provided evidence to the

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of cases of human rights violations by various groups. She moved to the United States in 2016 as a Hubert H. Humphrey Fellow. She decided to take a master's degree in Washington DC at the

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. In March 2017 she became an

recipient.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Thabet, Fadia Najeeb Yemeni women activists Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Yemeni human rights activists SIT Graduate Institute alumni Yemeni expatriates in the United States 21st-century Yemeni women 21st-century Yemeni people Recipients of the International Women of Courage Award