- PII
- S0321-50750000495-0-1
- DOI
- 10.31857/S50000495-0-1
- Publication type
- Article
- Status
- Published
- Authors
- Volume/ Edition
- Volume / Issue №6
- Pages
- 69-72
- Abstract
- The article is dedicated to the memory of Asma Jilani Jahangir (1952 - 2018), a Pakistani human rights lawyer and social activist, who co-founded and chaired the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan. She was known for playing a prominent role in the Lawyers' Movement and served as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief. In 1987, she co-founded the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan and became its Secretary General until 1993 when she was elevated as commission's chairperson. Serving as one of the leaders of the Lawyers' Movement, she became Pakistan's first woman to serve as the President of Supreme Court Bar Association. Asma fought tirelessly for anyone and everyone without a voice. She was a fierce and powerful voice for the disenfranchised, for religious minorities, women, democracy advocates. She took on the powerful military, the intelligence services. She stood her ground against Islamic militants. Over the years Jahangir undertook human-rights missions for the United Nations. In Pakistan she had been criticized and distrusted among some Pakistanis for being too supportive of good relations with India on one hand and, on the other hand, for or not keeping the focus on Pakistan. When the news of Jahangir's death on February 11 began to circulate, politicians from Pakistani President to leaders of political parties and personalities in the arts heaped praise on her. The media across the region commended her for her fearless campaigns against authoritarianism and discrimination.
- Keywords
- Pakistan, human rights, the United Nations special rapporteur on human rights, defence of most vulnerable groups of society, international recognition
- Date of publication
- 01.06.2018
- Number of purchasers
- 8
- Views
- 1319
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