In Conversation with Nobel Peace Prize Nominee Alaa Salah on Uprisings and Women's Rights in the Building of a New Sudan

Join us in a conversation with Alaa Salah about Sudan, its future and women's rights.

Alaa Salah is a Sudanese student and anti-government protester, who was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2020. She gained worldwide media attention from a picture of her that went viral in the 2019 Sudanese protests. The image of Salah has been dubbed as "Woman in White" or "Lady Liberty" of Sudan. As a member of MANSAM, one of the main Sudanese women's networks who signed the 1 January 2019 Forces of Freedom and Change declaration, Salah gave a speech at United Nations Security Council, insisting that in the Sudanese transitionary institutions women have equal representation to men.

Salah stated that despite women often having constituted 70% of protestors, they were "side-lined in the formal political process" of creating transitional institutions. She argued that "there is no excuse for [women] not to have an…