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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