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Rita Eleanor Hauser (born 12 July 1934) is an international lawyer known for persuading Yasser Arafat and the Palestine Liberation Organization to renounce violence.
Born in New York City to Nathan and Frieda Abrams, Rita Eleanor Abrams was the elder of two daughters. She received her B.A. from Hunter College in 1954. After college, she won a Fulbright Scholarship for graduate work in France. She attended the University of Strasbourg and was awarded a doctorate in political economy. At a time when women represented only one percent of those graduating from law school, she attended Harvard Law School from 1955–1956, eventually received her LL.B. from New York University Law School in 1959, and became one of the few Americans to obtain a license en droit (a French law degree) from the University of Paris, which she did in 1958.
Following her university years, Hauser served as counsel in the Justice Department’s Appellate Tax Division. While in Washington, she was invited to join Richard Nixon’s first presidential campaign, in 1960, as a speechwriter and campaign strategist. After Nixon's loss to John F. Kennedy, she took a position at a New York law firm. She became active again in politics during Nixon's triumphant 1968 campaign, after which she was appointed United States Ambassador to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, a position in which she served from 1969 to 1972. She subsequently joined the Wall Street firm Stroock & Stroock & Lavan as its first female partner.
In her capacity as head of the American branch of the International Center for Peace in the Middle East, from 1984 to 1991, she participated in secret diplomatic negotiations, coordinated by the Swedish foreign minister, which culminated in Yasir Arafat’s 1988 public recognition of the State of Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization’s renunciation of terrorism. As chair of the International Peace Academy, Hauser was invited by the head of the Palestine Elections Commission to be an official observer of the 1996 Palestinian elections.
In 1988 Rita Hauser and her husband, Gustave M. Hauser, created the Hauser Foundation, a private philanthropic organization, to “meet the challenge of bringing about the peaceful resolution of conflict and promoting democracy”.
She currently serves on the President's Intelligence Advisory Board.
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