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Nina Shea

Nina Shea

American lawyer (born 1953)

Nina Hope Shea[1] (born August 17, 1953)[2] is an American international human rights lawyer and international Christian religious freedom advocate.[3][4]

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Early life

A native of Pennsylvania, Shea graduated cum laude from Smith College, and graduated from the Washington College of Law of American University.[1][5][6] Shea is Catholic.[5][7]

Shea is married to Adam Meyerson, president of The Philanthropy Roundtable. They have three sons.

Career

She is a former director of the Center for Religious Freedom at Freedom House, an office which she had helped found in 1986 as the Puebla Institute.[5][8][9] She served as a Commissioner on the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom from 1999 to 2012.[3][10][11][9] She has been a Senior Fellow at Hudson Institute since November 2006, and directs the Center for Religious Freedom there.[12][13] In January 2009, she was appointed as a commissioner on the U.S. National Commission to UNESCO.[9]

She was appointed as a U.S. delegate to the United Nations' Commission on Human Rights.[9]

Shea authored In the Lion's Den (1997) on anti-Christian discrimination. Shea is also the co-author of Silenced: How Apostasy & Blasphemy Codes are Choking Freedom Worldwide (2011).[3][14][15]

References

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    "Adam Meyerson Weds Nina Shea". The New York Times. September 14, 1986. Retrieved June 29, 2011.
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    United States Public Records, 1970–2009 (Washington DC, 2001)
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    Paul A. Marshall (2005). Radical Islam's rules: the worldwide spread of extreme Shari'a law. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. ISBN 9780742543621. Retrieved June 29, 2011.
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    Emran Qureshi, Michael Anthony Sells (2003). The new crusades: constructing the Muslim enemy. Columbia University Press. ISBN 9780231126670. Retrieved June 29, 2011.
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    "Freedom fighter: meet the 'very focused, and tough' Nina Shea". National Review. January 31, 2005. Retrieved June 29, 2011.
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    Sheryl Henderson Blunt (August 26, 2005). "The Daniel of Religious Rights". Christianity Today. Retrieved June 29, 2011.
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    Allen Hertzke (2006). Freeing God's Children: The Unlikely Alliance for Global Human Rights. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 9780742547322. Retrieved June 29, 2011.
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    Examination of a fundamental human right: the 2006 International Religious Freedom Report: hearing. DIANE. ISBN 9781422321089. Retrieved June 29, 2011.
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    Archived Commissioner bio
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    Congress (October 2005). Congressional Record, V. 147, Pt. 6, May 9, 2001 to May 21, 2001. U.S. Government Printing Office. ISBN 9780160729669. Retrieved June 29, 2011.
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    Former Commissioners
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    Leonard Leo. International Religious Freedom (2010): Annual Report to Congress. DIANE. ISBN 9781437944396. Retrieved June 29, 2011.
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    Saudi Arabia: friend or foe in the war on terror?; hearing. DIANE. ISBN 9781422323731. Retrieved June 29, 2011.
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    Nina Shea (1997). In the lion's den: a shocking account of persecution and martyrdom of Christians today & how we should respond. Broadman & Holman Publishers. ISBN 0805463577. Retrieved June 29, 2011.
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    C. D. Bay-Hansen (2002). Futurefish 2001: Futurefish in Century 21: The North Pacific Fisheries Tackle Asian Markets, the Can-Am Salmon Treaty, and Micronesian Seas, 1997–2001. Trafford. ISBN 9781553692935. Retrieved June 29, 2011.
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