Meriem Belmihoub-Zerdani (1 April 1935[1] – 27 July 2021[2]) was an Algerian independence fighter, lawyer and feminist.

[3] Imprisoned in France for her activity providing medical care to Algerian soldiers, she and other women prisoners protested their incarceration in letters which were republished by the French humanitarian organization Secours populaire français, as well as in pamphlets of the Tunis-based Committee of Women Students of Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco.

She contributed to a series of articles published by the daily newspaper Le Peuple in August 1963, addressing the question 'Is there an Algerian women problem?

[5]In 1964 Belmihoub became one of the first two indigenous Algerian women to be called to the Bar of Algiers.

[6][7] She has served as Vice-Chair of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).