Rima Hassan
Palestinian-French jurist, activist and politician / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rima Hassan (Arabic: ريما حسان) is a French-Palestinian jurist, human rights activist and politician born on April 28, 1992, in the Palestinian refugee camp of Neirab, near Aleppo, Syria.
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Born | (1992-04-28) April 28, 1992 (age 32) |
Nationality | Stateless (until 2010) French (since 2010) |
Occupation(s) | jurist, lawyer |
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Stateless, she arrived in France around the age of nine and settled with her family in Niort. After obtaining French nationality upon reaching adulthood, she earned a master's degree in international law from Panthéon-Sorbonne University.
Hassan then founded, in 2019, the 'Refugee Camps Observatory', an NGO dedicated to the study and protection of refugee camps worldwide. In 2023, she founded the 'Action Palestine France' collective. That same year, she joined La France Insoumise in preparation for the 2024 European parliament election.