Shaheen Sardar Ali

ààShaheen Sardar Ali is a law professor and an author who formerly served chair of the National Commission on the Status of Women of Pakistan. She is a Professor of Law at the University of Warwick.

Biography

Ali, a Pashtun, was born in Swat in 1955 in Pakistan and obtained her BA, LLB and an MA in Political Science from the University of Peshawar. A Foreign and Commonwealth Scholarship allowed her to come to the UK in 1990, to take an LLM in international law at Hull University. She returned to Pakistan and gained a professorship at Peshawar University in 1995. Three years later, she returned to the United Kingdom, teaching as a law lecturer at the University of Warwick.[1] Her research and teaching interests include International Law of Human Rights, women's and children's rights and Islamic Law and Jurisprudence.[2]

Ali is fluent in Urdu, Pashtu and Punjabi, can read and write Arabic and has a working knowledge of Persian. Furthermore, she serves as a consultant for the British Council, The World Bank, UNIFEM, ILO, NORAD and Radda Barnen and is a member of the British Council Task Force on Gender and Development. Ali often contributes to radio and television programmes and appears as commentator on current affairs and debates.[3]

She is also the current Vice-Chair of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Working Group on Arbitrary Detention.[4]

She is married to Ali and the mother of two daughters, Gulsanga and Zara, and one son, Isfandyar.[5]

Works

References

  1. ↑ Warwick scores legal first
  2. ↑ Protecting the World's Children
  3. ↑ Policy advocacy and partnerships for children's rights
  4. ↑ The Working Group on Arbitrary Detention - Members OHCHR.
  5. ↑ Conceptualising Islamic Law, CEDAW and Women’s Human Rights in Plural Legal Settings

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