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Meaza Ashenafi
Meaza Ashenafi is an Ethiopian lawyer,
Born: July 25, 1954. In November 2018, she was appointed
President of the Ethiopian Federal Court by Parliament.
In 2003, Meaza was awarded the Hunger Project Award
and she was awarded the Grassroots Ethiopian Women
of Substance Africa Prize. Two years later she was nominated
for the Nobel Peace Prize. Her most famous event was the
2014 Ethiopian film Difret, co-sponsored by Angelina Jolie as
production director and awarded the World Film
Dramatic Audience Award at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival.
Meaza has held positions on the
Economic Commission for Africa.
She helped develop Enat Bank, Ethiopia's first women's bank,
which was founded in 2011 and
has led the board of directors since 2016.
As a human rights adviser to the Ethiopian constitutional
commission
which drafted the current Ethiopian constitution,
she ensured the protection of women’s and children's rights.
Meaza Ashenafi is currently a gender and Women's Rights Advisor at UNECA's
Development unit.
She is very active in advocating legal protection for women, promoting human rights
and monetary mediation for the benefit of women. She served as a High Court judge in
her native Ethiopia.
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G. Rebecca Joy
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