Ahmed Shaheed

Quick Facts

Full Name	Ahmed Shaheed
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Jan 27, 1964(1964-01-27)
Age	60
Birthplace	Maldives
Country	Maldives
Birth City	Maldives
Horoscope	Aquarius

Ahmed Shaheed Biography

Ahmed Shaheed is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on January 27, 1964 in Maldives, Maldives, Maldives. A career diplomat since 1982, Shaheed served as the Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Maldives from 1998-2004. As Permanent Secretary of Maldives, he actively lobbied to widen and deepen regional cooperation within South Asia, incorporating discussions on human rights, regional peace, and free trade into the agenda of the South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation, including the pursuit of a South Asian Social Charter. Prior to his appointment as Permanent Secretary, he had served, from 1997–98, as a member of the Group of South Asian Eminent Persons, appointed by the Heads of State of the South Asian region. At the national level, in 2003, Shaheed also secured political approval for the creation of Maldives National Human Rights Commission, which was established in November 2003, and for accession to the UN Convention against Torture, as part of the human rights-related reforms the government embarked on in late 2003.

Although a very high-profile sponsor of the DRP, he was defeated in his bid to win the Vice Presidency of the Party in April 2006.

On August 21, 2007, Shaheed resigned as Foreign Minister ahead of a second due motion of no-confidence against him tabled in the Majlis, which followed criticism of the Majlis by Shaheed, who said that it had failed the people. Shaheed said that “a conservative guard within the parliament and cabinet” was resisting reform.

While inaugurating a workshop conducted by the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in March 2007, Dr. Shaheed took credit for all the steps taken by the Maldives to subscribe to the core international human rights treaties, including treaties that allowed Maldivians to petition the UN treaty bodies. He also claimed credit for the establishment of the Maldives Human Rights Commission in accordance with the Paris Principles. Shaheed had come under strident criticism for his advocacy of international human rights norms, such as extending standing invitations to United Nations Human Rights special mandates to visit Maldives and hosting of a UN Human Rights Advisor in Maldives. Shaheed’s advocacy of an open society and strong anti-corruption measures were vehemently opposed by the President’s brother, Abdulla Yameen and his supporters who mounted a series of motions of censure against Shaheed in parliament July–August 2007.

Prior to his appointment as a UN envoy with the rank of Assistant Secretary General, he was a Maldivian politician and human rights defender. He served as Maldivian Minister of Foreign Affairs from November 2008 to December 2010; previously, he had served as Minister of Foreign Affairs for two years, from 14 July 2005 until August 20, 2007.

Ahmed Shaheed Net Worth

Ahmed Shaheed is one of the richest Politician from Maldives. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Ahmed Shaheed 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

At the end of 2003, Shaheed retired from the diplomatic service and took up a position in the President’s Office mandated to formulate and coordinate political and human rights reform as well as government communications, following outbreaks of civil unrest in the capital and nearby areas.

In July 2005, Shaheed used his position as Government Spokesperson to reject the condemnation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the Chief Justice of the Maldives. The Opposition MDP accused him of being the chief “spin doctor” for President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom while independent human rights NGOs such as Hama Jamiyya hail him as a champion of human rights.

He is one of the co-founders of New Maldives, a group within the former regime who spearheaded the drive to make the Maldives a modern liberal democracy. Together with his cabinet colleague, Dr. Hassan Saeed, Shaheed is the author of the Roadmap for Reform, unveiled on 27 March 2006, identifying a raft of political and legal reforms with specific timeframes. Shaheed is also the founder of the Open Society Association dedicated to the promotion of human rights, tolerance, and democracy.

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After Gayoom was defeated in the October 2008 presidential election, his successor, Mohamed Nasheed, reappointed Shaheed as Foreign Minister in November 2008. His second stint as Foreign Minister was no less controversial than the first, coming under fire from the parliament and radical Islamist parties for recognition of Kosovo as an independent State, the development of cooperation with Israel and the participation in the US programme to close down Guantanamo Bay detention facility by agreeing to relocate persons released from Gitmo. An advocate of close security ties with India, he was also widely criticized by pro-Pakistani Islamist elements. As Foreign Minister, Shaheed had also agreed to a moratorium on corporal punishment, including flogging, and to protect LGBT community in Maldives against discrimination, during the universal periodic review of Maldives held in Geneva on 3 November 2010. Amnesty International’s Annual Report in 2011 described Dr Shaheed as the “leading human rights defender” in the Maldives.

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Ahmed Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Maldives. Ahmed Shaheed celebrates birthday on January 27 of every year.

Living in self-imposed exile since the coup d’état of February 2012, Shaheed has been a vociferous campaigner for the restoration of democracy and for advancement of human rights in Maldives. He has also been active on the international stage advocating human rights protection in Islamic societies, supporting freedom of religion and the abolition of the death penalty. The official newspaper of the Islamist party in Maldives declared in February that Shaheed was the foremost apostate in Maldives. In April 2013, Shaheed was a Guest of Honour at the launch of the launch of the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s 2012 Human Rights and Democracy Report.