STRENGTHENING THE JUSTICE SYSTEM
- Dialogue with Women in Field of Law: Opportunities and Challenges
- Upholding the Rule of Law
FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE, RELIGION, BELIEF AND EXPRESSION
- Censorship and other Curbs on Electronic and Print Media
- Social Media and Freedom of Expression
- Religious and Ethnic Minorities under Siege in South Asia
- Selective Accountability? Legislative, Judicial & Executive Failure
- Silencing Civil Society: Curbs on CBOs, NGOS, and INGOs
RIGHTS OF THE CHILD
- Protection of Children from Exploitation and Denial of Justice
EQUAL ACCESS TO LAW IN SOUTH ASIA
- Human Rights crisis in Jammu and Kashmir
- Conflict in Afghanistan: Impact on the Rights of Women and Minorities
- Politics Inspire Art and Art Inspires Politics
- Fighting the Culture of Shame and Silence – Violence Against Women
- Strengthening the Legal Constitutional Framework for the Federation and Pluralism
- Economic and Social Inequality
- Unwrapping State Discourse: National Security, Identity and Nation Building
- Former – FATA Post Merger
Uncensored Sessions
Transgender Rights in Pakistan – From Legal Recognition to Social &...
MODERATOR
Ali Dayan Hassan, Human Rights Campaigner & Senior Key Expert for European Union’s Promotion of Human Rights in Pakistan
SPEAKERS
Marvia Malik, Pakistan’s First Transgender News...
Dialogue with women in field of Law: Opportunities and Challenges
Moderator:
Sabahat Rizvi
Advocate, Supreme Court of Pakistan at Commons Law Company
Speakers:
Honourable Justice Abher Gul
Additional District and Sessions Judge, Lahore
Ayesha Jawad
Assistant Professor and HOD...
Protection of Children from Exploitation and Denial of Justice
Moderator:
Samar Minallah Khan
Documentary Filmmaker, Human Rights Activist & Anthropologist
Speakers:
Justice Jawad Hassan
Judge, Lahore High Court
Mehnaz Akbar Aziz
Member of the National Assembly, PML (N) & Chair...
Fighting the culture of shame & silence
Moderator:
Uzma Noorani
Co-Chairperson of Human Rights Commission of Pakistan and Managing Trustee & General Secretary of Panah Shelter Home
Speakers:
Siobhan Mullally
Author, Professor of Human...
Economic & Social Inequality
MODERATOR:
Ammar Jan, Activist & Historian
SPEAKERS:
Dr. Hafiz Pasha , Economist / Author & former Federal Minister of Finance,
Kaiser Bengali, Economist & Educationalist, former Advisor to...
AJCONF - 2019 Media Coverage
A People’s Discourse – I.A. Rehman
The two-day Asma Jahangir Conference last Saturday and Sunday quite unobtrusively developed into a people’s assembly. Each of the scores of speakers offered a...
After Asma
THE Asma Jahangir Conference in Lahore last weekend was a spirited attempt at highlighting some of the causes that the champion human rights campaigner...
Opening remarks by Knut Ostby, UNRC, a.i at Asma Jahangir Conference...
Excellencies, Honourable Justices, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen,
It is a privilege to join you on this auspicious occasion. Allow me to express my appreciation...
‘Saira Aur Maira’ — a tribute to Asma Jahangir from daughters...
LAHORE:Ajoka Theatre’s play “Saira Aur Maira” which enthralled the audience this weekend was in fact a tribute from Asma’s daughters to their mother, an...
Legacy of the Human Rights Icon continues – The Two-Day Asma...
(Webdesk) – The two-day first Asma Jahangir “Justice for Empowerment Conference”, organized at Lahore’s Avari Hotel from Oct. 13-14, 2018 was concluded with a...
Political leaders demand respect for Constitution, 18th Amendment – OCTOBER 21,...
LAHORE: Speakers in a session at the Asma Jahangir Conference on Sunday prescribed respect for the 18th Amendment and provincial autonomy that it provides,...
‘State abdicates responsibility to safeguard rights of people’ – OCTOBER 21,...
LAHORE: “We have created two Pakistans – one for the masses and the other for the elite,” says economist Kaiser Bengali.
The elite class has...
Accountability laws termed bad piece of legislation – OCTOBER 21, 2019
LAHORE: Speakers at the Asma Jahangir Conference here on Sunday termed the current accountability law in vogue in the country a bad piece of...
Thousands resolve to carry forward Asma Jahangir’s legacy – OCTOBER 21,...
LAHORE: The two-day ‘Asma Jahangir Conference 2019 – Roadmap for Human Rights’ concluded here on Sunday.
At least 120 international and national intellectuals, jurists, politicians,...
Protest for democratic rights being suppressed – OCTOBER 21, 2019
LAHORE: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leaders said they have to decide whether the country should be run...
