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Shada Nasser Biography

Shada Nasser is one of the most popular and richest Lawyer who was born on May 1, 1964 in Aden, Aden Governorate, Yemen. Shada Nasser (Arabic: شدا ناصر ‎) (born May 1, 1964 in Aden) is the first female Yemeni lawyer and the first female lawyer to not cover her face in Yemen courts.

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She studied and acquired a law degree from Charles University in Prague in (1989), after which she returned to Yemen as the North and South were unifying to work as a human rights and defense lawyer. In 1996, she founded an all female law firm with three other female Yemeni lawyers in the capital of Sana’a. She has dedicated her work to protecting the rights of women in Yemen.

An opponent of child marriages in Yemen, she represented the 10 year old Nujood Ali in April 2008 as she filed for divorce from a middle-aged man whom her family had married her to the previous year.

Ali claimed her husband regularly beat and raped her, despite having agreed to hold of I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced by Nujood Ali - Goodreads PIS