Fatima Zohra Karadja

**Fatima Zohra Karadja** (an haife ta a shekara ta 1949) mataimakiyar shugabar majalisar tattalin arziki, zamantakewa da al'adu ta Tarayyar Afirka ce ta Arewacin Afirka .

An haifi Ms Karadja a ranar 20 ga Afrilu, 1949, a Algiers, Algeria . Ita ce mai ilimin likitancin yara, tana riƙe da PhD a cikin ilimin halin ɗan adam kuma ta kware a yin aiki tare da yaran da ke fama da rauni. A matsayinta na mamba na kwamitin zaman lafiya da ci gaban mata na Afirka (AWCPD), ta tsunduma cikin kungiyoyin fararen hula a Aljeriya.

Ta kafa wata kungiya mai zaman kanta ta kasa ta kungiyoyi masu zaman kansu don wayar da kan jama'a da yada bayanai kan ci gaba mai dorewa da gina zaman lafiya, da kuma wata kungiya mai daidaitawa, da ta kunshi kungiyoyi shida da wasu fitattun matan Aljeriya guda shida, don inganta ayyuka daban-daban na AWCPD. Har ila yau, tana ci gaba da sadarwa tare da Shugabanta don tallafawa manufofin AWCPD da ayyuka.

Ms Karadja ita ce shugabar *kungiyar Nationale de Soutien aux Enfants en Difficulté en Institution* (ANSEDI). ANSEDI ta ƙirƙiri sashin kula da hankali da zamantakewa wanda ke ba da abubuwan buƙatu na yau da kullun da jiyya ga waɗanda abin ya shafa. Sashen ya mayar da hankali ne kan mata, musamman mata masu aure, ta hanyar yin aiki don shirya su don aikin iyayensu. ANSEDI ta kuma ba da damar gudanar da tarurrukan horar da mata daga bangarorin da ke adawa da juna domin su taru domin wayar da kan jama'a da tattaunawa kan hakkin dan Adam. Tare da haɗin gwiwar wasu ƙungiyoyi, ANSEDI tana tsara dabarun yaƙi da ƙauracewa zamantakewa ta hanyar shigar da mutanen da ke cikin haɗari cikin ayyukan al'umma.

Tun 1974, Ms Karadja ta jagoranci cibiyar maraba ga yara  da aka rabu da danginsu. Cibiyar tana ba wa yara gida har sai an haɗa su da iyalansu ko kuma, inda hakan ba zai yiwu ba, har sai an ɗauke su zuwa dangi. Dangane da wannan ka'ida, cibiyar tana aiki mai shiga tsakani a cikin rikice-rikicen iyali kuma tana ba da tallafi ga iyaye mata masu aure waɗanda ke fuskantar ƙin yarda da kyama daga al'ummominsu.

A mataki na yanki, Ms Karadja ta ba da gudummawar samar da hanyar sadarwa ta kungiyoyin Arewacin Afirka, masu wakiltar kasashen Afirka shida. Babban manufar hanyar sadarwar ita ce ƙirƙirar dandamali na gama gari don hanyoyin faɗakarwa da wuri da warware rikici. A shekara ta 2001, yayin taron Paris-Dakar, gwamnatin Morocco ta yanke shawarar shirya taron ta yankin yammacin Sahara, wanda ya haifar da tashin hankali mai tsanani tare da yankin da ya ayyana kansa. Nan take kungiyar matan Arewacin Afirka ta mayar da martani, tare da hada tarurrukan fadakarwa da matan Yammacin Sahara domin karfafa musu gwiwa wajen sasanta rikicin cikin lumana. Ta wannan hanyar, hanyar sadarwar ta ba da gudummawa sosai don rigakafin rikice-rikice a yankin.

A matakin kasa da kasa, Ms Karadja ta halarci taruka da dama, ciki har da babban taron kungiyar AU na shekarar 1999, da dandalin mata na Afirka a Algeria, da taron jama'a na 2001 da 2002 da kungiyar AU a Addis Ababa, da taron duniya kan zaman lafiya da hadin kai a shekarar 2002. Har ila yau, mamba ce mai sa ido a Hukumar Haƙƙin Bil Adama da Jama'a ta Afirka, kuma mamba ce ta ƙungiyoyi masu zaman kansu masu inganta kiwon lafiya.

Bayan aikinta a bangaren kungiyoyi masu zaman kansu, Ms Karadja ta tsunduma cikin harkar ilimi da ilimi. Ita ce farfesa a fannin ilimin halin dan Adam kuma mai ba da shawara na kasa da kasa kan ilimin halin dan Adam don magance rikice-rikice. Bugu da ƙari, tana ba da gudummawa ga binciken kimiyyar zamantakewa da kuma sa ido kan bincike daban-daban akan matsalolin da ke tasowa a cikin ilimin halin dan Adam na rikici.

## Magana