Suvada Selimović

Suvada Selimović (born 1965) is a Bosnian activist and pacifist, who works to promote mutual aid between women and for those responsible for the crimes of the Bosnian War to be brought to justice.

Biography Selimović was born in 1965 in the village of Vitinica, Sapna, part of the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina a federated state of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

During the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992–1995), on 1 June 1992 Selimović, her husband Hasan and their three young children were expelled from the village of Đulića, where they lived, as they were members of the Bosniak ethnic group. Her husband, along with other male members of her family, were separated from the column in which they were moving. She later discovered that he had been killed by a firing squad in Karakaj, near Zvornik.

Selimović and the children were sent to Tuzla, a territory controlled by Bosnian Muslims, where they were given shelter in an abandoned military barracks.

Selimović also founded the Association for the Empowerment of Women (Anima), an organisation for peace activism and women's empowerment,

Selimović was named a BBC 100 Woman in 2022.