Expertise: Civil society development, monitoring of violations and field research, epidemiological surveillance and community health, nutrition and immunization

Languages: Fluent in Arabic, and good in English 
Bio: Bushra Al-Saadi is a human rights and civil society activist who works to spread peace in the Yemeni community. She is the president of the Together we Rise Association in Abyan governorate since 2015. 

Despite her medical background by virtue of her studies at the College of Medicine in Aden and her work for years in the fields of community health, epidemiological surveillance, immunization and nutrition, however, her main passion is defending human rights and monitoring violations. 

She started her work with youth initiatives and advocacy to achieve peace in 2013, when she was chosen as a representative for Abyan Governorate in the Youth Connect Conference. This was followed  by her participation in the National Population Forum in 2014. She was also a founding member of the Southern Women for Peace Group as a representative for Abyan Governorate in 2017 by the European Institute for Peace. 

In the course of her work, she received a number of training activities in the field of monitoring and documentation of gender-based violence as part of the institutional capacity-building project for protection from gender-based violence. Bushra participates in many training events in the field of gender, women's rights, tolerance and developing the skills of civil society activists in general. She was a facilitator at the consultative session of Youth Visions and Aspirations based on the UN Resolution 2250, which was organized by the Southern Women for Peace Group in December 2020 in Abyan. 

Her health background helped highlight her pioneering role with the Group of 9 to stop the war in light of the Corona pandemic, especially since she received intensive training in leadership and meaningful participation in the societal response to confront the Coronavirus by the SOS Center for Youth Capacity Development September 2020 in Aden. 

Despite her young age, she previously worked as the Deputy Director of Epidemiological Surveillance in Abyan and was responsible for the field survey team of CARE International in the governorate. In addition to her continued participation in community events and her membership in many human rights networks such as Women's Solidarity Network, she continues to pursue her academic studies at the College of Medicine in Aden.