Nina Shea

Nina Shea is an international human rights lawyer and international Christian religious freedom advocate.[1][2]

Early life

A native of Pennsylvania, Shea graduated cum laude from Smith College, and graduated from the Washington College of Law of American University.[3][4][5] Shea is Catholic.[4][6]

Career

She is a former director of the Center for Religious Freedom at Freedom House.[4][7] She has served as a Commissioner on the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom since 1999.[1][8] She has been a Senior Fellow at Hudson Institute since November 2006, and directs the Center for Religious Freedom there.[9][10]

Writings

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).[1][11][12]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Paul A. Marshall. Radical Islam's rules: the worldwide spread of extreme Shari'a law. Retrieved June 29, 2011.
  2. ↑ Emran Qureshi, Michael Anthony Sells. The new crusades: constructing the Muslim enemy. Retrieved June 29, 2011.
  3. ↑ "Adam Meyerson Weds Nina Shea". The New York Times. September 14, 1986. Retrieved June 29, 2011.
  4. 1 2 3 "Freedom fighter: meet the 'very focused, and tough' Nina Shea". National Review. January 31, 2005. Retrieved June 29, 2011.
  5. ↑ Sheryl Henderson Blunt (August 26, 2005). "The Daniel of Religious Rights". Christianity Today. Retrieved June 29, 2011.
  6. ↑ Allen Hertzke. Freeing God's Children: The Unlikely Alliance for Global Human Rights. Retrieved June 29, 2011.
  7. ↑ Examination of a fundamental human right: the 2006 International Religious Freedom Report: hearing. Retrieved June 29, 2011.
  8. ↑ Congress. Congressional Record, V. 147, Pt. 6, May 9, 2001 to May 21, 2001. Retrieved June 29, 2011.
  9. ↑ Leonard Leo. International Religious Freedom (2010): Annual Report to Congress. Retrieved June 29, 2011.
  10. ↑ Saudi Arabia: friend or foe in the war on terror?; hearing. Retrieved June 29, 2011.
  11. ↑ 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 0-8054-6357-7. Retrieved June 29, 2011.
  12. ↑ C. D. Bay-Hansen. Futurefish 2001: Futurefish in Century 21: The North Pacific Fisheries Tackle Asian Markets, the Can-Am Salmon Treaty, and Micronesian Seas, 1997–2001. Retrieved June 29, 2011.
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