Saida Agrebi (born January 22, 1945 in

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) is a member of the

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of the

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, representing

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. She also sits on the

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representing Tunisia.Pan-African Parliament members, as of 2006
She graduated from the

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with a

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in Public Health.

Biography

As a student she served as an instructor on reproductive and family health in

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s in California and

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, instructor of

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reservations in the state of

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, and lecturer on

reproductive health Sexual and reproductive health (SRH) is a field of research, healthcare, and social activism that explores the health of an individual's reproductive system and sexual wellbeing during all stages of their life. The term can also be further de ...

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. Ms Agrebi joined the Arab Labour Organisation where she served as the Director of the Bureau of the Arab Working Woman until 1987. She was appointed Director of Communication at the National Office for Family and Population, and then promoted to Deputy Director General in which capacity she served until 1995. In 1995 she acted as Deputy Director General of the Office of Tunisians Abroad, before being elected as Deputy in the

Chamber of Deputies of Tunisia The Chamber of Deputies ( ar, مجلس النواب ''Majlis an-Nuwwāb'', french: Chambre des députés) was the lower chamber of the Parliament of Tunisia, the bicameral legislative branch of the government of Tunisia. It has 214 seats and memb ...

in 1999. As an expert on various topics, including reproductive and public health,

women’s rights Women's rights are the rights and entitlements claimed for women and girls worldwide. They formed the basis for the women's rights movement in the 19th century and the feminist movements during the 20th and 21st centuries. In some countries, ...

, civil society and emigration, Ms Agrebi has participated in various UN events. She has also published various articles on women in the work place, Arab women, rural women, and family planning in English, French and Arabic. In 2003, after the AWCPD’s successful lobbying to mainstream gender in the AU, Ms Agrebi was one of the five women elected to the AU Commission at the Second General Assembly in

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. Besides being a member of the AWCPD, Ms Agrebi is a member of many other organisations, including the vice-presidency of

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, the vice-presidency of the World Organisation of the Family, membership in

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, and founding presidency of the International Arab Women’s Forum, the Tunisian Mothers’ Association and the Organisation of Magreb Mothers. She has garnered many accolades for her work President Ben Ali of Tunisia presented the latest one.

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