Salima Ghezali

Salima Ghezali (* 1958 in Algiers ) is an Algerian journalist and human rights activist.

Ghezali was born near Algiers in 1958. She studied French literature and philosophy. Between 1983 and 1990 she taught as a teacher at the High School of El Khemis Khechna, a suburb of Algiers in the province of Boumerdes. In the 1980s she began to get involved in the Algerian women's movement. She was a founding member of 'Women of Europe and the Maghreb' and served as editor of the women's magazine founded by her NYSSA. Over time, it expanded its activities and now sat next to women's rights and for the enforcement of human rights and democracy in Algeria. From 1994 Ghezali was editor of the weekly La Nation. Your article grappled with the state censorship and a peaceful termination of the Algerian Civil War. This she moved into the focus of public authorities and the Islamist extremists. Contributions to the human rights situation in Algeria, among other things, about the massacre in Serkadji Prison, in the French newspaper Le Monde diplomatique led the Algerian authorities in 1996 to order the cessation of Ghezalis magazine.

In March 1996, she was awarded " International Journalist of the Year " by the U.S. magazine World Press Review in New York City. In 1997, he Ghezali for their commitment to the Sakharov Prize of the European Parliament and the Olof Palme Prize. In 1999, she was awarded by the City of Esslingen am Neckar Theodor Haecker Prize. Since 2002, La Nation reappears.

Ghezali is a member of the Board of Directors of the Euro -Mediterranean Foundation of Support to Human Rights Defenders. She has two daughters.