Amal Azzudin

Amal Azzudin (born 1990) is an Egyptian-Scottish campaigner and activist who co-founded the Glasgow Girls, a group of seven young women who campaigned against the harsh treatment of asylum-seekers in response to the detention of one of their friends. The group's efforts raised public awareness and won the support of the Scottish Parliament. Azzudin has been featured in The Guardian, The Sunday Post.

Career and later life Since leaving University, Azzudin has worked for the Mental Health Foundation in Scotland as its Equality and Human Rights Officer. Her main role is to manage the refugee programme, including the Sawti project. Sawti, which means “my voice” in Arabic, aims to raise awareness of mental health and wellbeing, and has developed a mentoring scheme for refugees and asylum seekers in Scotland.

In 2015, Azzudin accompanied campaigners Margaret Woods and Pinar Aksu to Lesvos, where as many as 3000 refugees per day were arriving from Turkey. She wrote a diary of her experiences for The Herald Scotland.

She is an ambassador for the Scottish Refugee Council.

Awards 2016 Saltire Society's Young Outstanding Woman of Scotland. Azzudin was winner of a Special Award to commemorate Saltire Society's 80th Anniversary 2016 Named one of the Young Women's Movement Outstanding Woman of Scotland