Her Excellency Moushira Khattab |
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2009–2011 |
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1999–2009 |
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1994–1999 |
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1992–1994 |
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1992–1994 |
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1992–1992 |
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| Born | Cairo, Egypt |
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| Alma mater | Cairo University |
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Moushira Mahmoud Khattab is an Egyptian politician and diplomat born in 1944. She is serving as the president of the National Council for Human Rights, Egypt's national Human Rights Institution. She previously served as minister of family and population, assistant minister of foreign affairs, Ambassador of Egypt to South Africa, the Czech Republic and Slovakia as well serving in Egypt’s diplomatic missions in Australia, Hungary, Austria and the United Nations in New York City and Vienna. She is also a human rights activist advocating the rights of children and women and the former vice chair and rapporteur of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child based at the UN Headquarters in Geneva. On 19 July 2016, the Prime Minister of Egypt announced that Moushira Khattab would be Egypt's candidate for the post of UNESCO director-general at the elections due to be held in 2017.