Gaer, Felice D.
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- nuc87-112737: Her Situación de los derechos ... 1983?(hdg. on CtY rept.: Gaer, Felice D.; usage: Felice D. Gaer)
- Her Israel and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent movement ..., 2000?:t.p. (Felice D. Gaer) t.p. verso (director of the Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights of the American Jewish Committee. She also serves as AJC's director of International Organizations)
- Minority religious communities at risk, 2012:p. ii (Felice Gaer; served as Commissioner on the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom since 2001)
Felice Diane Gaer (June 16, 1946 – November 9, 2024) was an American human rights defender and advocate. She worked on human rights matters and was a longstanding member and the former chair of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom. She was a member of the US National Commission to UNESCO. Gaer directed the Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights of the American Jewish Committee, which conducts research and advocacy to strengthen international human rights. Gaer served on the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom from 2001 to 2012, having been nominated by the Clinton administration and renominated by the Bush administration and Obama administration, and later by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. Gaer was the first American to serve as an Independent Expert on the United Nations Committee Against Torture. There, she had been Vice Chair. Gaer was also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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