Sheila Abed
Sheila Raquel Abed de Zavala is a Paraguayan lawyer and politician.
Biography[edit]
Abed studied law at the National University of Asunción; afterwards she obtained a Master in Environmental Law at the Université de Limoges.[1] She has experience in environmental topics in the framework of the United Nations.[2]
On 15 August 2013 she was sworn in as Minister of Justice and Labor of Paraguay in the cabinet of President Horacio Cartes.[3] In April 2020, alongside international affairs experts Claudia S. de Windt and Maria Amparo Alba, Abed founded the Inter-American Institute on Justice and Sustainability (IIJS) in the city of Washington, D.C., in United States of America where the organization has its headquarters.[4]
References[edit]
- ^ "CV of the ministers". HCPresidente.com. 12 August 2013. Archived from the original on 14 August 2013. (in Spanish)
- ^ "Technocrat cabinet in Paraguay". América Economía. 14 August 2013. (in Spanish)
- ^ "Cartes' new ministers sworn in". Informador.com.mx. Retrieved 20 August 2013. (in Spanish)
- ^ "Founding Members".
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