Megawati Sukarnoputri served as Indonesia’s first and only female president from 2001 to 2004. She is the present leader of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P). It is one...
Sibel Siber served as the Prime Minister of Northern Cyprus in 2013. She is the first female prime minister of the country. She graduated as a physician in 1983. In...
Aminata Touré became the Prime Minister of Senegal from 2013 to 2014. She is the second female Prime Minister of Senegal after Mame Madior Boye. She served as Justice Minister...
Roza Otunbayeva served as the president of Kyrgyzstan in 2010. She graduated from the Philosophy faculty of Moscow State University. In 1981 she worked as regional undersecretary of the Communist...
Tansu Çiller is Turkey’s first and only female Prime Minister and the leader of Truth Path Party. Ciller graduated from the School of Economics and received her PhD from the...
Cissé Mariam Kaïdama Sidibé was the first female president of Mali from 2011 to 2012. Being the first female president in the country’s history, she became the role model and...
Asma Afsaruddin is an Islamic professor in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at Indiana University in Bloomington. She is specialized in the religious and political thought of...
Azizah Y. al-Hibri is the founder of Karamah: Muslim Women Lawyers for Human Rights and a Professor emeritus at T.C. Williams School of Law, University of Richmond. Her work has...
Sima Samar was appointed as a member of the United Nations Secretary-General’s-High-Level Panel on Internal Displacement in 2019. She is the Special Envoy of the Afghanistan President and State Minister...
Dr. Hawa Abdi Diblaawe was a human rights activist and physician from Somalia. She was also the founder and chairperson of Hawa Abdi Foundation (DHAF). It is a non-profit organization...