| Rahma El Siddig Mustafa | |
| 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.
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]
In 2016, Mustafa was a program manager for ADD International (formally: Action on Disability and Development). She was a panelist at the UK Department for International Development's panel discussion and networking event on the 17 November 2016.
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.[5]
In 2019, she represented the Sudan National Union of Persons with Physical Disability, at a conference on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Sustainable Development Goals.[6] [7]
In 2020, Mustafa was a panelist at the United Nations Economic and Social Council event Inclusive Humanitarian Action = Effective Humanitarian Action.[8] [9]