| Dame Dr. Professor Meher Master-Moos has a number of
firsts to her credit. She was the first oriental woman to win the Barbour
Fellowship in Law at Michigan University, USA in 1968; and the first non-European
woman to be appointed a Law Professor in Canada in 1969 at the University
of Manitoba. She was the first person in India to be awarded the prestigious
UNO Secretary General Dag Hammarskjoeld Award in 1968 – the only
other lady so honoured was Late Mother Teresa, also in 1968. She is the
first and only person in India to be awarded the prestigious Albert Schweitzer
Medal for Humanitarian work internationally by the illustrious Polish
Academy of Medicine in 1998; and by the Austrian Albert Schweitzer Society
in 2000. She was conferred the medal for Inter Faith Peace by His Holiness
Pope John Paul II in 1986 and the medal of Chokhan Valikanov by the Kazakhstan
Academy of Sciences in 1992. She is the Representative at the United Nations
Economic and Social Council of the SBBS/Zoroastrian College, an NGO in
Special Consultative Status with the United Nations ECOSOC since 2004.
Meher graduated in law from Oxford in 1964 and qualified as a barrister
from Lincoln’s Inn, London. She became an advocate of Bombay High
Court and since 1972 has taught in the postgraduate law department of
Bombay University. She has also been a law professor in Canada and Australia.
Meher is a prolific writer, and authoress of nineteen books on International
Law, Alternative Medicine, and ancient occult wisdom of the Mazdayasnie
Zarathushtrian Daena. Her book on The Rainbow Colours of
Light & Medicina Alternativa, was released in 1985 in Copenhagen,
Denmark and is translated into German and Russian. She is a pioneer of
Kirlian Aura photography for medical diagnosis, and for water purification
technology, for which she if internationally recognized.
For International Interfaith Peace work Meher has received many accolades
and was invited to the United Nations Heads of Religions Summit in 2000.
She is a trustee of the Global Council of the United Religions Initiative.
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