Meeting with United Nations Goodwill Ambassadors and Messengers for Peace - 2002 Photo credit: UN/DPI by Eskinder Debebe

UNESCO - France - Paris - (2003) Photo: UNESCO / Andrew Wheeler

With His Excellency Boutros Boutros-Ghali - (1996)

Millennium Peace Prize for Women New York - 2001

Arab NGO Forum – 1996

UNDP Resident Representative meeting - (1994)

The twelfth edition of Women’s Film Week, organized by UN Women - (2025)

UN Day Reception, (2016)

Group photo with HeForShe volunteers, (2016)

Meeting at United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women held in Beijing, China. (1995)

Meeting at the UN Fourth World Conference on Women held in Beijing, China - (1995)

INTERNATIONAL WORK

Princess Basma plays an active human advocacy role through various forums and contributes to global strategies on health, education, population, the environment and the advancement of women.

Princess Basma has also played an active role in promoting the work of many other international organizations, by supporting their contribution to the development process and in highlighting the need to advance sustainable human development and social equity.

UN and Other International Assignments

  • Member of the Advisory Board for the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, 2022. 
  • Special Envoy for the International Organisation for Migration - 2013.
  • Awareness Ambassador for the World YWCA - 2006.
  • Goodwill Ambassador for UNFPA - 2001.
  • Honorary Person for the International Year of Volunteers in Jordan - 2001.
  • Member of the Earth Charter Commission - 1997.
  • Goodwill Ambassador for UN Women - 1995.
  • Honorary Human Development Ambassador for UNDP - 1993.

Honorary Degrees

Honorary Degree from Smith College, 2001

  • Honorary Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford University, UK - 1994.
  • Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws from the University of Reading, UK - 1998.
  • Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws, Smith College, USA - 2010.
  • Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws, As-Syafi’iyah Islamic University, Indonesia - 2011.
  • Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, UK - 2012 .