ASHA Foundation : Women, a world of inspiration
  Women, A World of Inspiration embodies the vision of the ASHA Foundation.
The outstanding women featured here come from diverse backgrounds and achievements, but have one thing in common: they are part of a collective, noble endeavour to create a better world.
Inspirational Women A-D D-J K-M N-S S-Z History of Project Mentors ASHA Women Home ASHA Home Confessions to a Serial Womaniser: Secrets of the World's Inspirational Women by Zerbanoo Gifford

 Dame Dr. Professor Meher Master-Moos

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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