Wasim Alimuz Zaman

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Wasim Alimuz Zaman, also known as Wasim Zaman, was a Bangladeshi civil servant, population scientist and United National official who was killed in a Taliban attack in Afghanistan. [1] [2]

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Early life

Zaman was born in 1948 in Gopalganj District, East Bengal, Pakistan, to Wahiduzzaman, a politician. [3] [4] He completed his PhD in population sciences at Harvard University. [5]

Career

Zaman joined the Pakistan Civil Service in 1970. [6]

Zaman joined the United Nations Population Fund in 1988. [5] From 1995 to 1998, he was the United Nations Population Fund envoy to Bhutan and India. [5] From 1996 to 1998, he was part of the United Nations theme group for HIV and AIDS in India and again from 2000 to 2003. [5] He was part of the United Nations Population Fund Country Technical Services Team for South and West Asia in Kathmandu from 1998 to 2008. [5]

In 2008, Zaman was made the special envoy of the United Nations Population Fund to Palestine. [5] [7]

Zaman was a member of the editorial board of the Asia Pacific Population Journal. [5]

Bibliography

Personal life

Zaman's wife lived in Malaysia while their three daughters live in the United States. [3]

Death

Zaman died in an attack by the Taliban on Serena Hotel near Arg, Kabul on 20 March 2014. [3] [5] He was living in Malaysia where he was the executive director of the International Council on Management of Population Programmes and had arrived in Kabul the day before the attack for a work trip. [3]

References

  1. ↑ "Wasim Zaman, 65" (PDF). University of British Columbia . Retrieved 27 November 2024.
  2. ↑ OneWorld Foundation India (2008-02-19). Dr. Wasim Zaman - Climate Justice for the Realisation of MDG . Retrieved 2024-11-27– via YouTube.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Bangladeshi among 9 killed". The Daily Star. 2014-03-23. Retrieved 2024-11-27.
  4. ↑ "Public Participation in Development and Health Programs: Lessons from Rural Bangladesh (Hardback)". nlm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com. Retrieved 2024-11-27.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Obituary: Wasim Alimuz Zaman, Ph.D. 1948-2014" . Asia-Pacific Population Journal. 29 (1): 137–138. December 2014. doi:10.18356/8ac7eaf5-en.
  6. ↑ Shibli, Abdullah (2021-03-21). "What path lies ahead for Afghanistan?". The Daily Star. Retrieved 2024-11-27.
  7. ↑ "Three Generations of Palestine refugees: The Quest for Human Rights and Human Dignity". UNFPA . 18 November 2008. Retrieved 27 November 2024.
  8. ↑ Lin, Sein; Zaman, Wasim Alimuz (1983). Land Policies in Developing Countries: Select Bibliography on Agrarian Reform (1977-1983). Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. ISBN   978-1-55844-096-8.
  9. ↑ Zaman, Wasim Alimuz (1984). Public Participation in Development and Health Programs: Lessons from Rural Bangladesh. University Press of America. ISBN   978-0-8191-3874-3.
  10. ↑ Medicine (U.S.), National Library of. Current Catalog: cumulative listing. U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine. p. 754.
  11. ↑ "Inter-linkages between population dynamics and development in national planning case studies from Bangladesh, India, and Malaysia". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Retrieved 2024-11-27.
  12. ↑ Zaman, Wasim Alimuz (2009). Improving Access of Young People to Education and Services for Sexual and Reproductive Health, HIV, and Gender: Promising Practices in Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam. International Council on Management of Population Programmes (ICOMP). ISBN   978-983-3017-10-2.
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