Nazhat Shameem

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Nazhat Shameem (born 1960) is a Fijian diplomat, lawyer and former judge who is a deputy prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (ICC) since 2022. She served as the Permanent Representative of Fiji to the United Nations from 2014 to 2022 and the President of the United Nations Human Rights Council in 2021. She previously served as a judge of the High Court of Fiji from 1999 to 2009, the first woman to do so.

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