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Dr. Farooq 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.
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 over 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.
His 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.
