Human Rights and Equalities Officer (refugees), Mental Health Foundation; UK

Amal Azzudin is a campaigner for human rights and social justice in Scotland. She is the Human Rights and Equalities officer (refugees) at the Mental Health Foundation.
Amal has a BA in Community Development and an MSc in Human Rights and International Politics from the University of Glasgow.
Amal is well known as one of the Glasgow Girls, a group of seven school girls from Drumchapel High School who campaigned to stand up against dawn raids, detention and deportation of asylum seekers in Glasgow. The Glasgow Girls story has since been turned into two BBC documentaries, a stage musical and a television musical drama.
Amal continues to campaign and has visited refugees in Greece and Calais.
In August 2016, Amal was named as one of the Saltire Society’s Outstanding Women of Scotland, Scotland, and in 2018 won the University of Glasgow’s World Changing Alumni award.
Amal is also an Ambassador for the Scottish Refugee Council.