GENEVA: The UN Human Rights Council appointed Ms. Sara Hossain of Bangladesh, Ms. Shaheen Sardar Ali of Pakistan and Ms. Viviana Krsticevic of Argentina to serve as the three independent members of the recently established Fact-Finding Mission on the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Ms. Shaheen Sardar Ali of Pakistan, is a law professor at the University of Warwick, United Kingdom, focussing on Islamic law, human rights, and women and child rights.
n Pakistan, She served as the First Chairperson/Minister of State, National Commission on the Status of Women (2000-2001) and the first female cabinet Minister for Health, Population Welfare and Women’s Development in the Government of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistan.
Ms Shaheen Sardar Ali was a member and Vice-Chair of the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (2008-2014) and has consulted with a wide range of national and international organizations. Ms. Ali has a Ph.D. in International Law, from the University of Hull, United Kingdom (1998), and is a member of the editorial boards of the Arab Law Quarterly and the Journal of Islamic State practices in International Law.
She is fluent in English, Urdu, Pashto, and Punjabi, can read and write Arabic and has a working knowledge of Persian (Farsi
