Nazanin Afshin-Jam

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Nazanin Afshin-Jam (2010)

Nazanin Afshin-Jam (* 1979 in Tehran ) is a former Canadian beauty queen , human rights activist and singer of Iranian origin.

After Afshin-Jam's father was arrested and tortured as the manager of a western luxury hotel during the Islamic Revolution in Iran, the family fled Iran. After spending a year in Spain, she finally settled in Vancouver on the west coast of Canada. Afshin-Jam grew up there and was a member of the Royal Canadian Air Cadets as a teenager , which earned her a pilot's license. After school, she studied political science and international relations at the University of British Columbia and also completed study visits at Sciences Po in Paris and the Bader International Study Center in Herstmonceux, which belongs to Queen's University of Canada but is located in England . She completed her studies with a Bachelor of Arts. Years later, she also earned a Master of Arts degree in diplomacy from an online course at Norwich University in Vermont. After studying at the University of British Columbia, she worked for the international youth organization of the Red Cross for a while .

Nazanin Afshin-Jam was elected Miss World Canada and Miss World America in 2003 and came second in the subsequent Miss World elections .

In 2005 Afshin-Jam was asked by a French human rights activist to help in a campaign for Nazanin Fatehi . Seventeen-year-old Fatehi had defended herself and her niece against three rapists and stabbed one of them. She was then charged with murder and sentenced to death. Human rights activists took up the case because Fatehi's case was self-defense and Iran is a signatory to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child , which bans the death penalty for minors. Afshin-Jam played a leading role in the campaign and in 2007, after a new trial, the provisional release of Fatehi was obtained. Afshin-Jam founded the organization Stop Child Executions , which campaigns against the execution of minors worldwide.

Afshin-Jam had made music privately with her brother-in-law, a professional musician, for several years and had also written some songs. In 2007 she published her first album, Someday . The title song of the same name, published as a single, is directed against the ayatollahs in Iran, who are accused of betraying the revolution against the Shah of 1979. Other single releases from the album were I dance 4 U and I do . She also released a Christmas single, On Christmas Day , the proceeds of which she donated to the Stop Child Executions organization.

In January 2012 she married the then Canadian Defense Minister Peter MacKay . The couple had a son in spring 2013 and a daughter in autumn 2015.

Discography

  • 2007 Someday

Books

  • with Tahirih Danesh: From cradle to coffin: a report on child executions in Iran . Foreign Policy Center, 2009, ISBN 9781905833160 .
  • with Susan McClelland: The Tale of Two Nazanins . Harper Collins, June 6, 2012, ISBN 9781443406628 .

Web links

Commons : Nazanin Afshin-Jam  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Adrian Humphrey: Nazanin Afshin-Jam: A model of achievement . National Post, Jan. 6, 2012
  2. ↑ a b c d Julia Llewellyn Smith: Little Miss Perfect on the Daily Telegraph website , November 4, 2007
  3. ↑ Nazanin Afshin-Jam ( Memento of the original from May 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - Author information from Harper Collins (accessed May 21, 2014) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.harpercollins.ca
  4. ^ A b Nazanin Afshin-Jam: Peter MacKay's New Wife A Woman Of Many Talents . HuffPo, Jan. 5, 2012
  5. ↑ Iranian-Canadian Nazanin Afshin-Jam crowned Miss World Canada 2003 . Payvand Iran News, October 26, 2003
  6. ^ Dean Goodman: Beauty queen gives "voice to voiceless" . Reuters, April 27, 2007
  7. ↑ Peter MacKay weds former beauty queen . CBC News, Jan. 4, 2012
  8. ^ Defense Minister Peter MacKay announces the birth of son 'Kian Alexander' . CTV News, April 1, 2013
  9. ↑ Andrea Gunn: Peter MacKay and Nazanin Afshin-Jam announce birth of baby girl Valentia . The Chronicle Herald, September 30, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Afshin-Jam, Nazanin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian human rights activist and singer of Iranian origin
DATE OF BIRTH 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Tehran , Iran