Rym Badran

Rym Badran smiles at the camera with a bike rack behind her. She has long brown wavy hair and is wearing a grey check top.

Rym Badran is a 17-year-old youth activist from Beirut, Lebanon. She served as a Teen Advisor for Girl Up - the UN's initiative to help support UN agencies that focus on adolescent girls and to advance girls’ skills, rights, and opportunities to be leaders. During her tenure, Rym founded Girl Up Lebanon and Girl Up Arab World and currently is serving as Girl Up’s Regional Leader in the Arab region.

Rym has also recently founded her own organisation/ platform Arab Girls For Peace; a by girls for girls movement aiming to bring tangible change to the Arab region while tackling gender equality, girls leadership, women political and peace building leadership. Its mission is to empower Arab girls to be leaders and agents of peace, promote and protect their rights, and to offer Arab girls a supportive community and a learning platform.

One action Rym would like you to do:

“Educate yourself about your biases and be more reflective about stereotypes.”
 

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