词条 | Azadeh N. Shahshahani |
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Azadeh N. Shahshahani is an American human rights attorney based in Atlanta.[1] She is Legal & Advocacy Director for Project South. She previously served as president of the National Lawyers Guild and director of the National Security/Immigrants’ Rights Project for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Georgia. Early life and educationShahshahani was born in Tehran, a few days after the 1979 Iranian Revolution [2]. She received her J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School, where she served as article editor for the Michigan Journal of International Law. Shahshahani also has a master's degree in Modern Middle Eastern and North African Studies from the University of Michigan. CareerShahshahani has worked for a number of years in the US South to protect the human rights of immigrants and Muslim, Middle Eastern, and South Asian communities.[3][4][5][6][7] She is the author or editor of several human rights reports, including a 2017 report, Imprisoned Justice: Inside Two Immigrant Detention Centers in Georgia, co-produced by Project South and the Penn State Law Center for Immigrants' Rights Clinic. Shahshahani has appeared on Democracy Now! and BBC, and has been quoted by the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, the Guardian, Atlanta Journal Constitution, and other outlets. Shahshahani has served as a trial monitor in Turkey, an election monitor in Venezuela and Honduras, and as a member of the jury in people’s tribunals on Mexico, the Philippines, and Brazil. She has also participated in international fact-finding delegations to post-revolutionary Tunisia and Egypt as well as a delegation focused on the situation of Palestinian political prisoners. Shahshahani serves as Chair of Georgia Detention Watch, Co-chair of the US Human Rights Network Working Group on National Security, and on the Advisory Council of the American Association of Jurists. She previously served as Chair of Refugee Women's Network and as Co-chair of the American Bar Association Individual Rights and Responsibilities Section Committee on the Rights of Immigrants. WritingsShahshahani writes frequently for various national and international publications such as the Nation, the Guardian, Al-Jazeera, the Huffington Post, Salon, and the Atlanta Journal Constitution on a range of issues pertaining to immigrants' rights, discrimination and state surveillance targeting Muslim communities, and foreign policy. Awards and honorsShahshahani is the recipient of the 2018 Emory Law School Outstanding Leadership in the Public Interest Award, the 2017 US Human Rights Network Human Rights Movement Builder Award, the American Immigration Lawyers Association 2012 Advocacy Award, and the University of Georgia Law School 2009 Equal Justice Foundation Public Interest Practitioner Award, among several others. She has also been recognized as an Abolitionist by the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University & the Frederick Douglass Family Initiatives, and as one of Atlanta’s 500 Most Powerful Leaders by Atlanta Magazine. In 2016, she was chosen by the Mundo Hispanico Newspaper as a "Personaje Destacado del Año" (Outstanding Person of the Year) for her activism on behalf of the Latino community and defending the rights of immigrants in Georgia.[8] In 2017, she was chosen by Georgia Trend Magazine as one of the 40 under 40 notable Georgians. Bibliography
References1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.hyphenmagazine.com/magazine/issue-26-south/fixin%E2%80%99-go-mainstream |title=Fixin’ to Go Mainstream: Asian Americans are on the rise in Southern politics|publisher=Hyphen Magazine |accessdate=2014-04-07}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Shahshahani, Azadeh N.}}2. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-quigley/from-tehran-to-atlanta-la_b_10220252.html|title=From Tehran to Atlanta, Lawyer Azadeh Shahshahani Fighting for Human Rights|last=Quigley|first=Bill|date=2016-05-31|website=Huffington Post|language=en-US|access-date=2018-05-01}} 3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/05/31/from-tehran-to-atlanta-social-justice-lawyer-azadeh-shahshahanis-fight-for-human-rights/ |title=From Tehran to Atlanta: Social Justice Lawyer Azadeh Shahshahani’s Fight for Human Rights |publisher=Counterpunch |date=2016-05-31 |accessdate=2016-09-05}} 4. ^Meet 3 female human rights lawyers fighting for change worldwide 5. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.aila.org/content/default.aspx?docid=40138 |title=AILA Presents Azadeh Shahshahani with the 2012 Advocacy Award |publisher=AILA |date=2012-06-14 |accessdate=2014-01-18}} 6. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local/muslim-woman-douglasville-settle-lawsuit-over-her-/nQMXX/ |title=Muslim woman, Douglasville settle lawsuit over her hijab |publisher=www.ajc.com |date= |accessdate=2014-01-18}} 7. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.gpb.org/news/2012/10/22/feds-pay-thousands-for-wrongful-deportation |title=Feds Pay Thousands For Wrongful Deportation |publisher=Gpb.org |date=2012-10-22 |accessdate=2014-01-18}} 8. ^MundoHispanico, issue #1316, October 6–12, 2016. 7 : Year of birth missing (living people)|Living people|American lawyers|American women lawyers|Human rights lawyers|American civil rights lawyers|University of Michigan Law School alumni |
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