Deborah Fikes

Deborah Fikes is the executive advisor to the World Evangelical Alliance, ^[1]and serves as the WEA Representative to the United Nations.

Biography

She received her undergraduate degree from Texas A&M University and a masters degree from the University of Texas. She is a graduate degree candidate in international human rights law at Oxford University. She is married to J. Stanley Fikes, Jr. They have two daughters, and they maintain homes in Washington, D.C. and Texas. Deborah continues to travel internationally to promote human rights, positive dialogue, and peace initiatives around the world.

Career

She was named Evangelical Woman of the Year 2005 by Concerned Women of America for her actions in favour of the furtherance of human rights as spokeswoman for the Ministerial Alliance of Midland, Texas, the hometown of President George W. Bush.^[2][3] She spearheaded ecumenical partnerships on local and international levels, and led the Midland Ministerial Alliance's participation in advocating for the peace agreement between North and South Sudan.^[4]

Deborah has been involved with outreach efforts to North Korea^[5] and serves as an advisor to the newly established Pyongyang University of Science and Technology.^[6]

She also serves on the Advisory Board of the Harvard Medical School Center for Health and the Global Environment.^[7]

External links

• World Evangelical Alliance
• Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School
• National Association of Evangelicals

References

1. ^ http://www.worldevangelicals.org/news/article.htm?id=2659&cat=main
2. ^ http://www.cwfa.org/articles/9809/BLI/commentary/index.htm
3. ^ Hertzke, Allen D. (2006). Freeing God's Children: The Unlikely Alliance for Global Human Rights. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 421. ISBN 0742547329, 9780742547322. http://books.google.ie/books?id=EkIvbxefBNsC&lpg=PP1&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q=&f=false. 
4. ^ http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2004/08/30/040830fa_fact1?currentPage=2
5. ^ Baker, Peter (2006-04-19). "White House Puts Face on North Korean Human Rights". The Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/18/AR2006041801820.html. Retrieved 2010-05-01. 
6. ^ http://www.brethren.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=9381
7. ^ http://chge.med.harvard.edu/about/advisboard/index.html

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