Nina Shea

Nina Shea is an international human-rights lawyer, and international 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.^[6][4]

Career

She is a former director of the Center for Religious Freedom at Freedom House, the oldest human rights group in the U.S.^[7][4]

Shea 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).^[11][1][12]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} Paul A. Marshall. Radical Islam's rules: the worldwide spread of extreme Shari'a law. http://books.google.com/books?id=LBxdn4gI9X0C&pg=PA226&dq=%22Nina+Shea%22&hl=en&ei=OKILTsGINInZgQfS2NmpAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDgQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=%22Nina%20Shea%22&f=false. Retrieved June 29, 2011. 
2. ^ Emran Qureshi, Michael Anthony Sells. The new crusades: constructing the Muslim enemy. http://books.google.com/books?id=15NpAEv8c-MC&pg=PA383&dq=%22Nina+Shea%22&hl=en&ei=XqMLTvr5F4HZgQfGruTxCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CEAQ6AEwBDgK#v=onepage&q=%22Nina%20Shea%22&f=false. Retrieved June 29, 2011. 
3. ^ "Adam Meyerson Weds Nina Shea". The New York Times. September 14, 1986. http://www.nytimes.com/1986/09/14/style/adam-meyerson-weds-nina-shea.html. Retrieved June 29, 2011. 
4. ^ ^{a b c} "Freedom fighter: meet the 'very focused, and tough' Nina Shea". National Review. January 31, 2005. http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-3957894/Freedom-fighter-meet-the-very.html. Retrieved June 29, 2011. 
5. ^ Sheryl Henderson Blunt (August 26, 2005). "The Daniel of Religious Rights". Christianity Today. http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2005/september/18.52.html?start=2. Retrieved June 29, 2011. 
6. ^ Allen Hertzke. Freeing God's Children: The Unlikely Alliance for Global Human Rights. http://books.google.com/books?id=EkIvbxefBNsC&pg=PA368&dq=%22Nina+Shea%22&hl=en&ei=OKILTsGINInZgQfS2NmpAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CEsQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=%22Nina%20Shea%22&f=false. Retrieved June 29, 2011. 
7. ^ Examination of a fundamental human right: the 2006 International Religious Freedom Report: hearing. http://books.google.com/books?id=ysYsE9jZmvgC&pg=PA49&dq=%22Nina+Shea%22&hl=en&ei=OKILTsGINInZgQfS2NmpAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22Nina%20Shea%22&f=false. Retrieved June 29, 2011. 
8. ^ Congress. Congressional Record, V. 147, Pt. 6, May 9, 2001 to May 21, 2001. http://books.google.com/books?id=hCYK7X_SqHIC&pg=PA8521&dq=%22Nina+Shea%22&hl=en&ei=XqMLTvr5F4HZgQfGruTxCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDsQ6AEwAzgK#v=onepage&q=%22Nina%20Shea%22&f=false. Retrieved June 29, 2011. 
9. ^ Leonard Leo. International Religious Freedom (2010): Annual Report to Congress. http://books.google.com/books?id=eYSA2uew3CUC&pg=PA361&dq=%22Nina+Shea%22&hl=en&ei=XqMLTvr5F4HZgQfGruTxCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CEYQ6AEwBTgK#v=onepage&q=%22Nina%20Shea%22&f=false. Retrieved June 29, 2011. 
10. ^ Saudi Arabia: friend or foe in the war on terror?; hearing. http://books.google.com/books?id=9P3nTVX4HisC&pg=PA19&dq=%22Nina+Shea%22&hl=en&ei=OKQLTrSvN4Ls0gGB4q2WAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CC4Q6AEwATge#v=onepage&q=%22Nina%20Shea%22&f=false. 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 0805463577. http://books.google.com/books?id=d67YAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Nina+Shea%22&dq=%22Nina+Shea%22&hl=en&ei=OKILTsGINInZgQfS2NmpAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAA. 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. http://books.google.com/books?id=K-BXZB6JmeQC&pg=PA52&dq=%22Nina+Shea%22&hl=en&ei=XqMLTvr5F4HZgQfGruTxCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDIQ6AEwATgK#v=onepage&q=%22Nina%20Shea%22&f=false. Retrieved June 29, 2011.