Expertise: Human Rights, Women and Children Rights Defender, Transitional Justice, Peace Negotiation, and Mediation. 

Languages: Arabic, English, German.  

Bio: Hooria Mashhour (@Hooria _Mashhour) is a human rights defender, focused on the rights of women and children. She was appointed to be the Minister of Human Rights as part of the National Accord Government for 2012-2014. Prior to that, she was appointed as the Official Spokes for the National Council for the Peaceful Revolution in 2011. She was the head of the National Women Committee, and after 10 years of experience, she was appointed to be a member of the Truth Investigation Committee to investigate the violent events in Aden. However, she resigned from her position and announced her objection to violence against the demonstrators. She is currently the Senior Advisor to the Transitional Justice Center in Yemen. 

Mashhour works as a consultant on gender issues with many international organizations, some of which include UNFPA, UNDP, UNICEF, ILO, UNFPA, Counterpart, and Oxfam-GB. She also worked as a consultant in Oman during the preparation of the first national report on the 2010 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).

Hooria had many concrete contributions, including her participation in preparing the second, third, and fourth National Five-Year Plan. She supervised the team that was responsible for reviewing the law in light of Islamic law and its compatibility with international standards, especially CEDAW standards. Another contribution is her participation in mainstreaming a gender perspective in many national strategies, such as basic education, technical education, vocational education, and health strategies.

Throughout her career, Hooria has had prominent roles, as she was the leader of the Women Development Strategy Team during 2000-2003, leader of the CEDAW reporting team, head of the National Delegation at the United Nations to present the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth National Report. In addition, she was the head of the Gender Team with Responsive Governance Project (RGP) and supervised the preparation of the 2013 Human Rights Strategy. 

Hooria has a BA in Economics. She has many publications, the most important of which are: The Political Participation of Yemeni Women, a study with IDEA International (2004), Incorporation of Gender in Development with CEDAW, the National Assessment on Gender-Based Violence with UNFPA (2007), and Gender Auditing, which is an analytical study on the status of women’s labor in 6 ministries.