Asma Jahangir Current Affairs, GK & News
Asma Jahangir posthumously awarded 2018 UN Human Rights Prize
Asma Jahangir, Pakistan’s human rights activist and lawyer, has been posthumously awarded the 2018 UN Human Rights Prize along with three other winners. The other winners of the prize are Rebeca Gyumi of Tanzania, Brazil’s first indigenous lawyer Joenia Wapichana and Ireland’s human rights organisation Front Line Defenders. The United Nations Prize in the Field ..
Topics: Asma Jahangir • Benazir Bhutto • Government of Pakistan • Liaquat • Malala Yousafzai • Pakistani people • Prime Ministers of Pakistan • Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan • United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights • United Nations special rapporteurs • women • Women in Pakistan
Asma Jahangir, renowned human rights lawyer passes away
Asma Jilani Jahangir (66), Pakistan’s renowned human rights lawyer, social activist and an outspoken critic of the country’s powerful military establishment, has passed away in Lahore on February 11, 2018. She was known for her outspoken nature and unrelenting pursuit for human rights. Asma was the first woman to serve as the President of Supreme ..
Topics: Asma Jahangir • Countries • Government of Pakistan • Human Rights Commission of Pakistan • Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry • In Pakistan • Lawyers' Movement • Pakistan • Political history of Pakistan • Presidents of Pakistan • Punjabi people • United Nations special rapporteurs