Maria de zayas biography of barack
When María Luz Rafaela Faustina Almada González de Zayas was born on 26 September , in Álamos, Álamos, Sonora, Mexico, her father, José de Jesús María Dolores Almada Alvarado, was 23 and her mother, María Josefa Rafaela González de Zayas y Lasurica, was She married Pierre Perron Bellegarde in , in Álamos, Sonora, Mexico. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 6 daughters. She died on 14 April , in Purísima Concepción, Álamos, Sonora, Mexico, at the age of
Zayas
This article is about the noble family. For the surname in general, see Zayas (surname). For the island, see Zayas Island.
Zayas is an old Castilian noble family, that has its ancestral seat in a place called Zaya in the province of Soria, from where the family took its name. The word Zayas has its origin in the Basque word Zai, meaning watchman or guard.
The novelist María de Zayas belonged to this family. Members of the family also settled in Cuba, where the family owned large sugar plantations and members of the family distinguished themselves in Cuban society as doctors, writers, politicians and diplomats. Alfredo Zayas y Alfonso, a lawyer, poet and politician, served as President of Cuba from to He was the son of Dr. José María de Zayas y Jiménez (–), a noted lawyer and educator, and had two brothers: Dr. Juan Bruno de Zayas y Alfonso (–), a medical doctor and revolutionary hero who died in the war for Cuba's independence, and Dr. Francisco de Zayas y Alfonso (–), Cuba's long-time Minister to Paris and Brussels. He also had a illegitimate brother, whose name has been lost to history.
The American legal scholar, historian and UN official Alfred-Maurice de Zayas is a descendant of Alfredo Zayas y Alfonso.
References
- ^Jaime de Querexeta, Diccionario Onomastico y Heraldico Vasco
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Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
Cuban–American lawyer and historian (born )
This article is about the lawyer and historian. For his great-granduncle and Cuban president, see Alfredo Zayas y Alfonso.
Alfred-Maurice de Zayas (born 31 May ) is a Cuban-born American lawyer and writer, active in the field of human rights and international law. From 1 May to 30 April , he served as the first UN Independent Expert on the Promotion of a Democratic and Equitable International Order, appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council.
Early life and education
De Zayas was born in Havana, Cuba and grew up in Chicago, Illinois (US). He earned his juris doctor degree from Harvard Law School, then a doctorate of philosophy in modern history from the University of Göttingen (Germany).
He was a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Tübingen in Germany and research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, Germany. He worked with the United Nations from to as a senior lawyer with the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Chief of Petitions.
Since , de Zayas has been married to Carolina Jolanda Edelenbos, a Dutch national and UN official, with whom he had a son, Stefan (deceased).
Scholarly work
De Zayas' work focuses inter alia on the judicial protection of peoples and minorities. He has written and lectured extensively on human rights, including the jurisprudence of the United Nations Human Rights Committee, the Armenian genocide, the Holocaust, the US-run detention centers at Guantanamo Bay,ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia, the expulsion of Eastern European Germans after the Secon .