Ameenah A. Sawwan is a human rights activist/advocate from Syria, based in Berlin since 2016. Currently, she works as a campaigner at The Syria Campaign, a human rights and advocacy group. Ameenah works in particular on the campaign of the detention supporting detainees families and survivors to have the detainees cause as a priority in the peace talks of Syria. Back in Syria, she was part of the anti-regime movement in Western Damascus and worked along with other activists to highlight the violations committed in that area. At the end of 2012, she started ‘Vision’ which was a local civil society organization dedicated to the welfare of women empowerment and traumatized children. Activities included relief assistance, population census for relief work coordination, and coming up with creative approaches/activities to support children. Vision worked strongly on holding events and also produce multimedia reports to advocate for the situation under the strict siege in Western Damascus. Ameenah kept working on that until she left Syria at the end of 2013. Ameenah has experience in advocacy and campaigning, communication and media as she has spent the last eight years working on Syria for several NGOs and media outlets.  In Berlin, she is now studying Ethics and Politics at Bard College Berlin.

Participant in: August 2019 Fellowship: The Arts as a Tool for Peacebuilding