Mustafa, at the Week of Women panel discussion and networking event hosted by
DFID in London, 17 November 2016
Nationality
Sudanese
Known for
Disability rights advocacy
Rahma El Siddig Gasm Elbari Mustafa, more commonly known as Rahma El Siddig Mustafa or Rahma Mustafa, is a Sudanese disability rights activist.
She is best known for objecting to being charged an extra boarding fee by Cambodian airline
Bassaka Air because she is a wheelchair user.
Personal life
In September 2015, Mustafa made the news after she was charged US$240 extra to board a
Bassaka Air flight from
Siem Reap to
Phnom Penh because she uses a wheelchair and needed assistant board the aircraft.[1][2] The initial news reporting led to accusations of blame being traded between the airline and the Cambodia Airport Management Service Company.[3]
The charge led to an investigation by the Cambodian Disability Action Council to assess if there was a breach of Cambodian legislation.[4]
Career
In 2016, Mustafa was a program manager for ADD International (formally: Action on Disability and Development).[5] She was a panelist at the UK
Department for International Development's panel discussion and networking event on the 17 November 2016.[5]
In 2018, she was awarded a fellowship from the International Disability Alliance Switzerland to study disability rights at the Centre for Disability Law and Policy, part of the
National University of Ireland.[6]