Sheila Raquel Abed de Zavala is a

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an lawyer and politician.

Biography

Abed studied law at the National University of Asunción; afterwards she obtained a Master in Environmental Law at the

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. She has experience in environmental topics in the framework of the

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. On 15 August 2013 she was sworn in as Minister of Justice and Labor of Paraguay in the

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of President

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. In April 2020, alongside international affairs experts

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and Maria Amparo Alba, Abed founded the Inter-American Institute on Justice and Sustainability (IIJS) in the city of Washington, D.C., in United States of America where the organization has its headquarters.

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