Twitter is remembering human rights defender Asma Jahangir’s courage on her birth anniversary today. As a human rights lawyer, Asma fought for three decades and protected the most marginalised Pakistanis: women, children, religious minorities and the poor with immense bravery. Jahangir also established the first aid center in Pakistan in 1986. She made history when […]
Asma Jahangir’s journey of human rights activism since the 1980s signifies the interplay, shifts, and conflicts involving [Pakistan’s] dualistic legal and normative rights regimes as they have clashed, converged, and sometimes settled at temporary stalemate. Her advocacy for democracy and the rights of workers, women, and religious minorities provoked contestations with the state, the military, and political […]
31SharesI heard the term “privatisation of murder” for the first time in an interview of late madam Asma Jahangir, in which she was talking about ‘honour’ killings and how the murderers are pardoned by family members of the deceased girls. As a sheltered teenager from a typically urban middle-class household, with very limited exposure, I […]
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