Guest Lecture:'UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and Islamic Law: A Comparative Perspective'
Starts: Tuesday 26 February 2013
5:00 pm
Ends: Tuesday 26 February 2013 7:00 pm
Ends: Tuesday 26 February 2013 7:00 pm
| Event type | Lecture |
| Location | Elliot Jacques EJ110 |
Shaheen Sardar Ali Professor of Law University of Warwick and Vice-Chair, UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention will be delivering a guest lecture. She is an expert on Islamic Law and International Human Rights Law. She has written and published extensively on women and child rights issues.
Shaheen Sardar Ali Professor of Law University of Warwick and Vice-Chair, UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention will be delivering a guest lecture on 'UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and Islamic Law: A Comparative Perspective'. Prof Ali is an expert on Islamic law and International Human Rights Law. She was formerly Professor of Law University of Peshawar, Pakistan for twenty-five years and Director Women?s Study Centre at the same university. Shaheen served on the National Commission of Inquiry on Women as well as the Prime Minister's Consultative Committee on Women in Pakistan. She also served as the first woman cabinet Minister for Health, Population Welfare and Women's Development in the Government of the Khyber Pukhtunkhwa Province of Pakistan and the first Chair of the National Commission on the Status of Women of Pakistan. She has written and published extensively in renowned journals. Some of her publications include Ali, S. S. (2000) Gender and Human Rights in Islam and International Law. Equal before Allah, Unequal before Man? , The Hague: Kluwer Law International, •Hellum, A., Ali, S. S., and Griffiths, A. (2011) From transnational relations to transnational laws: Northern European law at the crossroads Editors: Hellum, A., Ali, S. S., and Griffiths, A., Farnham: Ashgate •Ali S S (2007) 'A Comparative Perspective of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Principles of Islamic Law: Law Reform and Children's Rights in Muslim Jurisdictions', in Protecting the World's Children: Impact of the UN convention on the Rights of the Child in Diverse Legal Systems, Editors: Goonasekere S, Cambridge University Press and Ali S S, Rehman J (2002) Indigenous Peoples and Ethnic Minorities of Pakistan: Constitutional and Legal Perspectives , Richmond: NIAS/Curzon Press. All are welcome to attend this lecture.
Contact details
Name: Ayesha Shahid
Email: ayesha.shahid@brunel.ac.uk
