Fátima Ptacek ( ; born August 20, 2000) is an American film and television actress and human rights activist working with UN Women's #HeForShe campaign for gender equality, best known as the lead actor in the 2012 Academy Award winning film "Curfew" and its full-length feature film version "Before I Disappear", a 2014 American drama film directed by ?
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Fátima Ptacek
Fátima Ptacek ( ; born August 20, 2000) is an American film and television actress and human rights activist working with UN Women's #HeForShe campaign for gender equality.
 She is best known as the lead actor in the 2012 Academy Award winning film "Curfew" and its 2014 full-length feature film version "Before I Disappear".
 She has lent her voice as the lead role of ""Dora"" in Nickelodeon's animated television series "Dora the Explorer" since 2010 and "" since 2014.
Before I Disappear
Before I Disappear is a 2014 American drama film directed by Shawn Christensen.
 The film is a feature-length adaptation of his 2012 Oscar-winning short film, "Curfew".
 The film had its world premiere at South by Southwest Film on March 10, 2014.
 The film was acquired for distribution by IFC Films on August 5, 2014 and released on November 28, 2014.
United Nations Development Fund for Women
The United Nations Development Fund for Women, commonly known as UNIFEM (from the French "Fonds de développement des Nations unies pour la femme") was established in December 1976 originally as the Voluntary Fund for the United Nations Decade for Women in the International Women's Year.
 Its first director was Margaret C. Snyder, Ph.D.
 It provides financial and technical assistance to innovative programmes and strategies that promote women’s human rights, political participation and economic security.
 Since 1976 it has supported women’s empowerment and gender equality through its programme offices and links with women’s organizations in the major regions of the world.
 Its work on gender responsive budgets began in 1996 in Southern Africa and has expanded to include East Africa, Southeast Asia, South Asia, Central America and the Andean region.
 It has worked to increase awareness throughout the UN system of gender responsive budgets as a tool to strengthen economic governance in all countries. Hafez Abu Seada
Hafez Abu Seada is an Egyptian politician, human rights activist and the current Chairman of the Egyptian Organization for Human rights Egypt's oldest Human Rights NGO , most known for his campaigns against torture and police brutality in Egypt.
 Abu Seada was born in 1965 in Cairo Egypt.
 He took part in the student movement of the 1980s against president Mubarak's government and was detained several times due to his dissident activities.
 After graduating from law school he worked as a human rights lawyer and got involved in Egyptian civil society.
 Throughout his human rights career he held many posts including the presidency of the Egyptian Organization for human Rights.
 He was also appointed in the mid 2000s in the government formed Egyptian National or Human Rights, and is a member of International Federation for Human Rights and was its envoy to the Arab league from 2004 to 2007.
 Abu Seada took part in dozens of international human rights conferences, as well as attending the United Nations Human Rights council sessions in Geneva regularly representing the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights which has a consultative status with the UN that gives it the right to observe various UN sessions.
 Abu Seada was a vocal supporter of Egypt's 2011 Revolution against the Mubarak regime, and took part in the street protests that ousted Egypt's longtime dictator, Abu Seada also harshly opposed the Muslim Brotherhood's regime and took part in the June 2013 uprising that ultimately led to the deposing of president Morsi on July 3, 2013.
 Abu Seada ran in Egypt's 2015 parliamentary elections, he nominated himself in the Maadi electoral district as a candidate of the conservative party.
 He pledged that the preservation of human rights and freedom of expression will be on the top of his legislative agenda if elected.
 Abu Seada's strongest opponents in the elections were Hussein Megawer a leading figure of Mubarak's defunct National Democratic Party and a former member of parliament, and Gamal El Sherif a well known lawyer.
 Abu Seada came in third in the polls, losing in the first round, while El Sherif defeated Megawer in the runoffs by a landslide.
 Abu Seada attained a PHD in international law from Alexandria University in 2017, and remains one of the vocal defenders of human rights in Egypt despite a massive government crackdown on civil society. Casar Jacobson
Casar Jacobson is a disability and gender equality rights activist and a UN Women Youth Champion.
 Casar is Former Miss Canada, Miss Global Peace and Deaf International Entrepreneur.
 She was the winner of Miss Canada 2013. Mary Shanthi Dairiam
Mary Shanthi Dairiam (born 17 September 1939) is a Malaysian human rights and women's rights advocate and United Nations (UN) official.
 She became a member of the Women’s Aid Organisation (WAO).
 In the mid 1980s, she was involved in the lobbying for the enactment of the Domestic Violence Act (which was eventually passed by parliament in 1994).
 She has since 2004 served on the UN's Gender Equality Task Force, and on the Committee on Elimination of Discrimination against Women.
 From 2004 to 2008, she was also a member of the UN's CEDAW committee, within which she was appointed Rapporteur in January 2007. Human rights in Somalia
Human rights in Somalia throughout the late 20th-century and early 21st-century were considered dire, but have gradually improved over the following years.
 Human rights are guaranteed in the Federal Constitution, which was adopted in August 2012.
 They fall under the Ministry of Human Rights established in August 2013.
 The central authorities concurrently inaugurated a National Human Rights Day, endorsed an official Human Rights Roadmap, and completed Somalia's first National Gender Policy.
 A Human Rights Task Force was also established in February 2013 to firm up on the protection of individual rights.
 Additionally, the federal government in December 2014 organized a public awareness campaign, passed a new 54-point national Child Protection Act, and finished legislation on a Human Rights Commission bill.
 According to the UN's Independent Human Rights Expert on Somalia, local human rights protection has gradually improved as government institutionalization and legislative reform have taken root. Pınar İlkkaracan
Pınar İlkkaracan is a researcher trained both in psychotherapy and political science and a human rights activist.
 She is the co-founder of two NGOs, "Women for Women’s Human Rights" (WWHR) – NEW WAYS, a women’s NGO that led various successful legal reforms in Turkey towards gender equality in Turkey and the "Coalition for Sexual and Bodily Rights" (CSBR), a network of leading organizations and academics from 14 Muslim countries. Elaine Valdov
Elaine Valdov is President and Founder of The International Institute for a Culture of Peace As a peace and human rights activist and conflict resolution specialist, Valdov lectures internationally and is best known for her work in championing and building initiatives worldwide, in support of the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and UNESCO’s International Decade for the Promotion of a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World.
 She has chaired task forces for women empowerment and gender equality; and founded “Yoga Peace Ambassadors” to teach MDG humanitarian service options in Yoga Ashrams worldwide. Women for women's human rights
Women for Women’s Human Rights (WWHR) is an autonomous women’s non-government organization (NGO) founded in 1993 in Turkey.
 The group aims to promote women’s human rights and to supports the active and broad participation of women in the establishment and maintenance of a respectful democratic order at national, regional and international levels.
 WWHR has developed a multi-pronged approach in its programming, seeking to eliminate discrimination against women and women's human rights violations.
 The NGO's national and international programs combine action-research, training, production and dissemination of awareness-raising materials and publications, advocacy, lobbying and networking.
 WWHR was elected as one of the few NGOs worldwide to deliver a statement at the United Nations March 8 Global World Conference in 1998, in recognition of its advocacy and lobbying efforts towards the adoption of a protection order law against domestic violence in Turkey.
 WWHR was also awarded the 1999 Leading Solutions Award by the Association for Women in Development (AWID), in recognition of its contributions to advancing gender equality and social justice.
 Its Human Rights Education Program for Women (HREP) has been elected as one of the “best tactics in human rights” in an international program by the Centre for Victims of Torture and Helsinki Citizens Assembly.
 In 2007, co-founder of WWHR - New Ways was awarded the Gruber Prize for Women’s Rights for her work with WWHR-New Ways and the Coalition for Sexual and Bodily Rights in Muslim Societies (CSBR).