Fatima Hassan

Fatima Hassan is a South African human rights lawyer who works in the field of health justice.

She won the Calgary Peace Prize in 2022 for her work which included exposing inequity in the global deployment of COVID-19 vaccines.

Education Hassan has a bachelor of arts and an LL.B from the University of the Witwatersrand and a LL.M from Duke University.

Career

Hassan is the founder of the Health Justice Initiative (HJI), and was part of the team that founded the 2008 Western Cape Civil Society Task Team against Xenophobia. In her human rights work, she has litigated against private employers, the South African government, and pharmaceutical companies.

She is a member of the Peoples Vaccines Alliance and she won the Calgary Peace Prize in 2022 The award is made by Mount Royal University as part of the John de Chastelain Peace Initiative.