Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah

Shaista Ikramullah
শায়েস্তা ইকরামউল্লাহ (Bengali)
شائستہ اکرام الله (Urdu)
Portrait of Shaista Suhrawardy
Member of the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan
In office
10 August 1947 – 24 October 1954
ConstituencyEast Bengal
Personal details
Born(1915-07-22)22 July 1915
Calcutta, Bengal, British India
Died11 December 2000(2000-12-11) (aged 85)
Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
Spouse
(m. 1933; died 1963)
ChildrenInam Ikramullah
Naz Ikramullah
Salma Ikramullah
Sarvath Ikramullah
Parent
Alma materUniversity of Calcutta (B.A)
SOAS, University of London (Ph.D)
OccupationPolitician, diplomat, writer
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Begum Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah (22 July 1915 – 11 December 2000) was a Pakistani politician, diplomat and author. She joined the Pakistani foreign service in 1948, and was the country's first female civil servant, as well as the first Muslim woman to earn a PhD from the University of London. She was Pakistan's ambassador to Morocco from 1964 to 1967, and a delegate to the United Nations, calling for a more gender-inclusive language in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.