Hennou Allali

Hennou Allali (; 1941/1942 – 3 January 2026) was a Moroccan physician, politician, and human rights activist.

Biography Allali was born in the 1940s in a village of the Zayanes, in the heart of the Middle Atlas, a few kilometers from the town of Oulmès, she grew up in a modest Moroccan family living by transhumance, agriculture and livestock farming. She obtained her baccalaureate in Rabat in 1961. She pursued her medical studies in France at the University of Montpellier, where she earned her medical degree in gynecology and obstetrics in 1971.

She was one of the first women to join the cells of the Moroccan Communist Party in 1962, then the Party of Liberation and Socialism, before continuing her struggle within the Party of Progress and Socialism.

She contributed to the development of the national strategy to combat AIDS and was also a member of the National Human Rights Council (CNDH) from 2011 to 2016.