Asma Jahangir



Asma Jilani Jahangir ( Urdu : عاصمہ جہانگیر) ( Lahore , January 271952 ) is a Pakistanilawyer at the Supreme Court of Pakistan and human rights activist . It occurs both in Pakistan and internationally against the persecution of religious minorities and women and against the exploitation of children. ==Activities [ edit] == Jahangir put others in 1980, shortly after she had graduated in law, the first law firm in Pakistan that was set up and run by women. They focused on the application of religious law in Pakistan.Under these laws, people who can Sharia violated quickly accused of blasphemy, while the death penalty may be applied.

Jahangir defended both a 13-year-old blind girl Safia Bibi, after rape was accused of adultery and initially threatened to get the death penalty, as a 14-year-old Christian boy who after a religious expression was accused of blasphemy. These two children were both eventually acquitted.

Through these and other issues Jahangir faced. Violence and death threats In 2007, she was put on 90 days fixed by the government of Pervez Musharraf, simultaneously with 500 other lawyers, opposition politicians and activists. ==International [ edit] == Since 2004 she has been Special Rapporteur to the United Nations on freedom of religion or belief, attached to the Human Rights Council of the United Nations . Before his Special Rapporteur on unlawful killings. She is also president of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan. ==Recognition [ edit] ==
 * In 2002, Asma Jahangir was the Geuzenpenning as a woman activist .
 * In 2010 she received the Four Freedoms Award in Middelburg in the category of freedom of religion .
 * That year she also received the Bilbao Prize for the Promotion of a Culture of Human Rights of UNESCO .
 * In 2012 she received the Human Dignity Award from the Roland Berger Foundation .