Amal Bayou

Amal Bayou (Arabic: أمل بايو, romanized: 'amal bayu; c. 1957/1959 – 24 October 2017) was a Libyan microbiologist and politician who served in the House of Representatives from 2014 until her death in 2017. Bayou was a prominent advocate for women's rights and social change in Libya, and was considered to be an "extremely popular" politician in the country. Quotes “it feels great” “We need to protect this new constitution, otherwise it will be useless. Look at the countries around us, like Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Tunisia. All these countries have constitutions, and failed. Libya still needs a lot of education on this issue. We need knowledge in order to be able to support and protect the constitution. This education needs to start from a very young age,” Aljazeera Libya election: Benghazi candidate profiles Retrieved 3 Jul 2012 Quotes from Amal Bayou She went back to her home country to be with her family and got involved in post-revolution social work, and more recently promoting female participation in the electoral process. Aljazeera Libya election: Benghazi candidate profiles Retrieved 3 Jul 2012 Amal was a prominent politician and parliamentarian in Libya. Amal was a civil society activist and a member of various social and political initiatives. She assisted the families of martyrs and the  disappeared, and was a founding member of a youth initiative called ‘’Youth of Benghazi Libya”. In the 2014 parliamentary elections, Amal was elected to the House of Representatives with more than 14,000 votes (the highest number of votes anyone received in the 2014 elections). Amal will remain in the memories of many as a woman politician working to ensure a better future in one the most difficult and conflict-ridden contexts in the region. awid Amal Bayou Retrieved 20 November 2020 External links Category:Women politicians in Libya Category:2017 deaths Category:Biologists from Libya Category:Women activists from Libya