Fatima Outaleb is a human rights and gender equality advocate and has over 29 years of experience working on women’s issues, women’s rights, women’s empowerment, and gender mainstreaming at a national and regional level. She is a founding member and executive board member of Union de l’Action Féminine (Union of Women’s Action, UAF) and director and co-founder of the first women’s shelter in Morocco. She is the MENA representative in the Global Network of Women Shelters.  She holds several positions, mostly as a focal person and gender technical advisor at various national and international organisations and networks including, Danner, Resource Centre for Gender Equality (ABAAD), Feminist Alliance for Rights, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), United National Development Programme (UNDP), and International Civil Society Action Network (ICAN). 

Fatima holds a diploma in Women’s Rights from Raoul Wallenberg Institute and a certificate from the Human Rights Treaty body at the national level. She has several pubications on gender-based violence and has contributed to the development and editing of shelter training toolkits, as well as various briefs on women’s rights in the MENA region. She recently contributed to a handbook on women victims’ protection and due diligence for the North South Council of Europe Center and a toolkit on minimum standards for a GBV helpline in Myanmar. She has carried out various advocacy activities in Morocco as well as campaign planning, monitoring, and evaluation on gender issues across the MENA region. 

Participant in: March/April 2022 Fellowship: Peacebuilding and Women’s Meaningful Participation in Peacebuilding Processes