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For Immediate Release: May 27, 2004
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Hassan Appointed Special Ambassador for World Family Alliance
MESA, Arizona — Dr. Farooq Hassan, distinguished international legal authority, political advisor and attorney, has been appointed by the World Family Alliance as its Special U.N. Ambassador for the Family.
“The World Family Alliance is extremely honored to have Dr. Hassan serve in this key role,” said Craig Cardon, Chairman of the Board of United Families International, the coordinating organization of World Family Alliance. “Dr. Hassan’s superlative professional credentials and high-level governmental experience, combined with his deep commitment to preserve and strengthen the family as the fundamental unit of society, make him uniquely qualified to act as ambassador for the family in the international arena.”
The World Family Alliance is a coalition of organizations and individuals from diverse countries, cultures and religions, united in the belief that the family is the fundamental unit of society, that marriage is and should remain exclusively between a man and a woman, and that human life, including that of unborn children, is sacred. During the 10th Anniversary of the International Year of the Family, the World Family Alliance is gathering more than a million signatures on its International Petition to Defend Marriage and the Family.
Educated at Oxford, Cambridge, Lincoln’s Inn, London, Columbia and Harvard, Dr. Hassan holds doctoral degrees in constitutional law, international and comparative law, and international affairs. He has taught at Oxford, London, Columbia, Tufts and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy; was a faculty Fellow at Harvard’s Law School and Graduate School of Foreign Affairs; and has lectured at the Foreign Service Institute in Washington, D.C., the National Defense College in Islamabad, and the Pakistan Administrative Staff College. He has also taught courses at The Hague Academy of International Law, the Humanitarian Law Institute in Italy, the Henry Dunant Institute in Geneva, and the International Institute of Human Rights in France.
Dr. Hassan has authored more than 25 books and more than 100 professional articles, and is a syndicated columnist in several leading Pakistani newspapers. He has appeared worldwide on TV and media programs, including spots on CNN, BBC, and Voice of America and is listed in Who’s Who in America, the Directory of American Scholars and the Biographical Encyclopedia of Pakistan.
Hassan’s notable human rights background includes service as a delegate to and member of the U.N. Human Rights Commission and of its prestigious U.N. Sub-Commission on the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights, the group of experts charged with undertaking studies and making recommendations to the Commission. He has also served as a member of the Human Rights Program of the Harvard Law School, as head of the Pakistani delegation to the International Criminal Court’s PrepComs in New York, as advisor to UNESCO’s Division of Human Rights and Peace in Paris, and as a member of the International Institute of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France.
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