Salwa Abu Khadra

Salwa Abu Khadra (1929 – 15 November 2024) was a Palestinian politician and educator who was a member of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and Fatah, where she held various posts.

[1] Abu Khadra completed her secondary education at Saint Joseph Sisters School in Jaffa in 1945.

[2] She left Kuwait due to the Gulf War in 1991 and settled in Egypt where her daughter had been living.

[7] She was also the secretary general of the women bureau of Fatah and served as a member of the Consultative Committee of the Palestinian Constitution.

[2] Abu Khadra headed the Palestinian delegation at the second conference on women of the United Nations in 1980.