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Asma Jahangir
(1952–2018)

Asma Jahangir ( عاصمہ جہانگیر) was a Pakistani human rights lawyer and social activist who founded and chaired the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan. Jahangir 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 and as a trustee at the International Crisis Group.

Asma Jahangir

Works and books

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  • Children of a Lesser God 1993

Hundred of thousands children in Pakistan live short and painful lives, they hve to suffer the worst forms of exploitation and neglect. Such type of injustice is often explained away as a direct result of the abject poverty in which their families live. This book describe the miseries and problems of poor children and particular prisoner's children who have no say and nobody is there to protect them .

  • Women's Movement, International Perspectives1989

This book examines the various challenges confronting the contemporary Pakistan women’s movement and their achievements. These Achievements can be watched as those basic changes in the state and in the institutionalizing societal changes in their practices and attitudes. The first story is dependent on those who make this policy and requires some sort of activism, basically rendering success dependent on these non-feminist state.

  • The Hudood Ordinances: A Divine Sanction? 1990

A comprehencive research and study of the Hudood Ordinances of Pakistan and their effect on the disadvantaged sections of Pakistan society.

  • Manual of family laws 2009

A complete book on Islamic law with all amendments & case laws of Supreme Court of Pakistan and High Courts. Comprehensive and Exhaustive Commentary on Manual of Family Laws in Pakistan.

Speeches

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