Dr. Nurah Maziad Alamro has been elected as a member of the advisory committee of the Human Rights Council by a majority of votes. The consultative committee is a UN Human Rights Council mechanism, which comprises 18 experts, each serving in their personal capacity, and is considered a consultative and thought board that operates at the direction of the council.
Alamro’s election comes as part of the achievements of Saudi diplomacy, with the support of its leadership and as a result of efforts exerted by Saudi Arabia’s UN mission in Geneva.
A physician and a clinical epidemiologist, Alamro is driven by a large-scale vision of improving lives for millions of people. She is one of 13 women members appointed by a royal decree to serve on the Human Rights Commission board’s fourth term (2020-2024), and a member of the Saudi-EU joint human rights dialogue team.
Just a few months after women were allowed to become members of Saudi Arabia’s consultative assembly, which also proposes laws to the king and Cabinet, Alamro became the body’s first social and health policy fellow.
In addition to her role with the assembly, Alamro wrote a weekly column on contemporary social and health affairs for a major Saudi newspaper, bringing the issues she works on to a broader audience with an accessible voice.
Alamro’s doctoral degree from Harvard enabled her to be recruited to provide advisory services to several Saudi ministers, including health, labor and social development and planning, and economy, as well as the Quality of Life Program 2020 — one of the Saudi Vision 2030 realization programs.
She is also an assistant professor of public health at the department of family and community medicine, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh.
Alamro has a Ph.D. in public health from Harvard University, US, a master’s in public health from the University of Alberta, Canada, and an MBBS from King Saud University.
Who’s Who: Nurah M. Alamro, member of the advisory committee of the Human Rights Council
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Who’s Who: Nurah M. Alamro, member of the advisory committee of the Human Rights Council
‘Cake not hate’ campaign becomes ‘Dates not hate’ in Madinah
- Dan said he was very impressed by Saudi hospitality and that his family was warmly welcomed
- He said being in Madinah exposed him to the true diversity of Islam
LONDON: A British autistic and non-verbal boy who has been visiting UK mosques and distributing cakes to promote solidarity amid an increase in far-right support in the country has taken his message of love to Madinah.
Joshua Harris, or “The Joshie-Man” as the 12-year-old is known to his social media fans, has handed out hundreds of his baked goods to worshipers at mosques in major British cities over the last few months.
The “Cake not hate” campaign came about after an Islamophobic attack on a mosque in his home city of Peterborough in October 2025.
Harris and his father visited Masjid Darassalaam, the mosque that was targeted, with cakes that the boy had baked and distributed them to the congregation soon after the attack. Since then, Harris has visited dozens of mosques in the UK.
On a recent trip to the Middle East, he and his father visited Madinah. In a local twist that pays tribute to the holy city’s famous date varieties including ajwa and ambar, Harris handed out dates to people in the courtyard of the Prophet’s Mosque. The “Cake not hate” campaign became “Dates not hate” for Saudi Arabia.
“He was greeted really, really warmly. There were some really touching moments where people were kissing his hands and his head. It was really lovely,” his father, Dan Harris, said.
Dan, the founder of global charity Neurodiversity in Business, said being in Madinah exposed him to the true diversity of Islam.
“We met people from all around the world. It was amazing. It’s like the United Nations there, you get people from different countries and it just goes to show you that the Muslim community, or the Ummah more generally, is not a homogeneous group,” he said.
“We saw people from Tajikistan and Uzbekistan and it was really interesting for us.”
Dan said his visit to Madinah, considered the second holiest city in Islam after Makkah for Muslims, was “profound and life-changing.”
He added: “I would say it’s my favourite city in the world due to the peace and tranquillity I felt there.”
Dan added that he was very impressed by Saudi hospitality: “Everywhere we went, people were taking down my number and insisting that we come for dinner, insisting they pick us up from the location. They were extremely attentive to Joshie as well, making sure his needs were met. We felt a great sense of welcome, something Saudi Arabia is known for.”
