Fahima Hashim (Arabic: فهيمة هاشم) is a Sudanese human rights activist focusing on women's issues.
The co-founder of the Salmmah Women's Resource Centre, she served as its director from 2005 until its dissolution by the Sudanese government in 2014, and currently continues her activism from Canada, where she sought refuge in 2014.
[3] Hashim was one of the co-founders of the Salmmah Women's Resource Centre (Arabic: مركز سالمة لدراسات المرأة, romanized: Markaz Sālimah li-Dirāsāt al-Marʼah), based in Khartoum.
[9] In 2009, Salmmah began advocating for the reform of the 1991 Criminal Law, which equated rape to adultery by treating it as extramarital sex, resulting in rapists getting more lenient punishments.
[10][11] In addition, Hashim also publicly campaigned against the 1991 Public Order Law, which prevented women from wearing trousers or dressing "immodestly"; for a reform of Sudan's penal code, which legalised "cruel" forms of punishments for women, such as stoning; and for an increase in the legal age for marriage to enable girls to focus on their education.
[22] Shortly after Salmmah's closure, the President of Sudan, Omar al-Bashir, accused Hashim of "destroying the fabric of Sudanese society", and she subsequently fled the country with her daughter, seeking refuge in Canada.