Shaheen Sardar Ali

Shaheen Sardar Ali is a British Pakistani law professor and an author who formerly served chair of the National Commission on the Status of Women of Pakistan.Shaheen, 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.[2] Ali is fluent in Urdu, Pashtu and Punjabi, can read and write Arabic and has a working knowledge of Persian.[3] She was previously a member and vice-chair of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) working group on arbitrary detention.
authorNational Commission on the Status of WomenPakistanUniversity of WarwickPashtunUniversity of PeshawarHull UniversityPeshawar UniversityPashtuPunjabiArabicPersianthe British Councilthe World BankUNIFEMRadda BarnenGender and DevelopmentOffice of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human RightsWayback Machine