# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ahmed-shaheed
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:21:46.403Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ahmed-shaheed"
name: "Ahmed Shaheed"
slug: "ahmed-shaheed"
description: "Ahmed Shaheed is a Maldivian diplomat, politician and professor. On 24 March 2016, he was appointed for the sixth year running as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Shaheed is also the Chairperson of the Geneva-based international human rights think-tank, Universal Rights Group, which was launched in January 2014. He now lives in England as a Professor of Human Rights Practice at the University of Essex. Shaheed is also a Senior Fellow at Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights and a Fellow at the Bonavero Institute of Human rights at the University of Oxford."
tagline: "Statesman"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ahmed_Shaheed%2C_Human_Rights_Council_Special_Rapporteur_on_Iran_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1964-01-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             5.722379603399434
  historical:           6.153313333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://shaheedoniran.org/"
sources:
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    title: "احمد شہید"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "اهميد شاهيد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ahmed Shaheed"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Shaheed"
    title: "Ahmed Shaheed"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF_%D8%B4%D9%87%DB%8C%D8%AF"
    title: "احمد شهید"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Shaheed"
    title: "Ahmed Shaheed"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ахмед Шахид"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump