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[[File:Ford A3000 NLGRF photo contact sheet (1975-01-29)(Gerald Ford Library) (cropped).jpg|thumb|left|Deng meeting with U.S. [[President Ford]] at the [[White House]] in 1975]]
Under Presidents [[Ismail al-Azhari]] and [[Gaafar Nimeiry]] Dr. Deng served as Human Rights Officer in the United Nations Secretariat (from 1967 to 1972) and subsequently as the Ambassador of Sudan to Canada, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden and the [[Sudanese Ambassador to the United States|United States]]. He also served as the Sudan’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs. After leaving his country’s service, he was appointed the first [[Rockefeller Brothers Fund]] Distinguished Fellow.
 
From 1992 until 2004 Dr. Francis M. Deng of the [[Sudan]] served as the [[United Nations]]' first [http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/IDPersons/Pages/IDPersonsIndex.aspx Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons].