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Seid al-Hussein (2006)

Seid bin Ra'ad Seid Al-Hussein ( Arabic زيد رعد زيد الحسين, DMG Zaid Raʿd Zaid al-Ḥusain ; Born January 26, 1964 in Amman ) is a Jordanian diplomat . From 2014 to 2018 he was the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights . He belongs to the Hashemite royal family of Jordan.

Seid completed a boarding school in England and then studied at Johns Hopkins University in the USA. After completing his BA in 1987, he did research at Christ's College , Cambridge , where he received his Ph.D. received his doctorate. During the same period he is said to have served as an officer in the Jordanian desert police Badia, where he was responsible for tribal affairs. From 1994 to 1996 he worked for UNPROFOR and from 1996 to 2007 he was Jordan's permanent representative to the United Nations. On July 5, 2000, in Amman, he married the American Sarah Butler, who was working at the UN in New York at the time.

Frank-Walter Steinmeier congratulated him on his appointment as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in 2014 as the successor to Navanethem Pillay . However, his appointment also met with criticism. The Danish lawyer and human rights activist Jacob Mchangama pointed out the prevailing conditions in Jordan, particularly with regard to freedom of speech on religious topics. He saw the decision to make a member of the Hashemite ruling house the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights as wrong and referred, among other things, to the case of the Jordanian poet Eslam Samhan, who had been sentenced to prison in 2009 for " blasphemy ". Samhan had incorporated verses from the Koran into his poems. Furthermore, in 2011 a Jordanian court case was opened in absentia against the Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard because of his Mohammad caricatures .

During his tenure as UN High Commissioner, he repeatedly criticized his home country. He condemned the end of the eight-year suspension of the death penalty in Jordan with the execution of eleven men in 2014. He referred to the frequent wrongful convictions that repeatedly lead to the execution of innocent people. He was also critical of the alliance between Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates , particularly with regard to the war in Yemen . In 2015, Said Raad al-Hussein named Germany and Sweden as role models for refugee policy . His term of office ended on August 31, 2018. His successor was the former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet .

For 2019, Seid was awarded the Goler T. Butcher Medal by the American Society for International Law (ASIL). In the same year he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

family

Seid bin Ra'ad is the son of Prince Ra'ad bin Seid, born in Berlin in 1936, and the Jordanian Princess Majda Ra'ad, née Margareta Lind, from Södertälje in Sweden. Prince Zeid bin Hussein , the grandfather of Seid bin Ra'ad on his father's side, was married to the Turkish painter Fahrelnissa Zeid and was an Iraqi envoy in Berlin from 1935 to 1939. Seid bin Ra'ad is the oldest of five siblings. He has been married to Jordanian Princess Sarah Zeid since 2000, who was born Sarah Antonia Butler in Houston , Texas in 1972 . The couple has three children.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Senior Management Group. Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, High Commissioner for Human Rights. (No longer available online.) In: un.org. United Nations, archived from the original on June 30, 2016 ; accessed on January 3, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Prince Said Raad al-Hussein. In: NWZonline.de . September 9, 2014, accessed January 3, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Foreign Minister Steinmeier congratulates Prince Zeid on his appointment as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. Press release. In: Auswaertiges-amt.de. Federal Foreign Office , June 17, 2014, accessed on January 3, 2019 .
  4. ^ Founders. freedomrights.info. Freedom Rights Project, accessed January 3, 2019.
  5. ↑ Jacob Mchangama: The Scandal of Ambassador Zeid. Why the new United Nations human rights advocate is the wrong man for the job. In: foreignpolicy.com , June 26, 2014, accessed January 3, 2019.
  6. ↑ a b Profile: Jordan's Prince Zeid bin Raad al-Hussein. In: fanack.com , March 12, 2018, accessed January 3, 2019.
  7. ↑ Germany and Sweden as role models. UN Human Rights Council on the refugee crisis. In: tagesschau.de. September 14, 2015, accessed January 3, 2019 .
  8. ↑ (sda / dpa): Chile's former president Michelle Bachelet is to become UN commissioner. In: NZZ , August 9, 2018, accessed on the same day.
  9. ↑ Majda Raad. (No longer available online.) In: Sveriges Radio . June 26, 2005, archived from the original on October 1, 2007 ; Retrieved January 3, 2019 (Swedish).
  10. ^ Al-Hashimi Dynasty GENEALOGY. In: royalark.net , accessed on January 3, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Be al-Hussein
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Be bin Ra'ad Seid Al-Hussein
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Jordanian diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Amman