Shada Nasser () (born May 1, 1964 in Aden) is the first female Yemeni lawyer and the first female lawyer to not cover her face in Yemen courts. She studied and acquired a law degree from

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in (1989), after which she returned to Yemen as the North and South were unifying to work as a human rights and defense lawyer. In 1996, she founded an all female law firm with three other female Yemeni lawyers in the capital of

Sana'a Sanaa ( ar, صَنْعَاء, ' , Yemeni Arabic: ; Old South Arabian: 𐩮𐩬𐩲𐩥 ''Ṣnʿw''), also spelled Sana'a or Sana, is the capital and largest city in Yemen and the centre of Sanaa Governorate. The city is not part of the Gove ...

. She has dedicated her work to protecting the rights of women in Yemen.

Cases

Nasser's clientele includes female prisoners from the Central Prison of Sana'a.Sanaa's First Woman Lawyer In 2005, Nasser defended a young woman prisoner who had been found guilty of murdering her husband despite insufficient evidence and sentenced to death by a firing squad despite being a minor at the age of 16, which Yemeni laws prohibited. The girl had become pregnant in jail after allegedly being raped by a guard in the prison. A presidential order spared the girl's life minutes before she was to be executed. An opponent of child marriages in Yemen, she represented the 10 year old

Nujood Ali Nujood Ali ( ar, نجود علي) (born 1998) is a central figure in Yemen's movement against forced marriage and child marriage. At the age of ten, she obtained a divorce, breaking with the tribal tradition. In November 2008, the U.S. women's ...

in April 2008 as she filed for divorce from a middle-aged man whom her family had married her to the previous year. Ali claimed her husband regularly beat and raped her, despite having agreed to hold off on having sexual relations with her. The court granted Nujood Ali the divorce in a few weeks, which made her the youngest divorcee in the world at the time.A Ten-Year-Old’s Divorce Lawyer Ali's historic case encouraged other young female brides in Yemen to seek divorce.Sanaa's First Woman Lawyer

Awards

In 2008, ''

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'' designated Nasser and Nujood Ali, whom she had represented in Ali's divorce proceedings, as their Women of the Year and recipients of the Glamour Award for the Voice of the Children.

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