Ahmed Shaheed
Statesman · Maldives · On the map · Politicians · Born 1964 · age 62
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.
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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.
