Tag: AJCONF

Speaking at the Asma Jahangir Conference 2022, legislators, lawyers and activists have called for expediting legislation on enforced disappearances and arbitrary detentions to resolve the issue of missing persons in the country.  

Speaking in the session ‘Mainstreaming Radicalism: Legitimizing Extremists – Impact on Minorities' at the Asma Jahangir Conference 2022, minority legislators and representatives of minority communities have called on the government to end forced conversions as well as the disenfranchisement of the scheduled castes in Pakistan.

In the Asma Jahangir Conference 2022's session on transgender law, panelists held that the transgender community is entitled to all rights available to Pakistani citizens, including equality and protection against discrimination.

Award-winning journalists Steven Butler, Hamid Mir, Daniel Bastard, and others discuss the increasing attacks against journalists and whether there is a siege against the media at the 4th Asma Jahangir Conference.

Speakers at the #AJCONF session on Kashmir have called on India and Pakistan to initiate dialogue over the disputed region stalled for several years due to hostilities between the South Asian states.

Chief Guest of Honour Bilawal Bhutto Zardari (PPP) and esteemed speakers Shahid Khaqan Abbasi (PMLN) and Munaza Hassan (PTI) address at the closing ceremony of the 4th Asma Jahangir Conference.

Session resolutions for the 4th Asma Jahangir Conference- Crisis of Constitutionalism in South Asia

The Conference remains a legacy of the late Asma Jahangir and is built upon the principles of her ideology of providing an uncensored and safe space for the advocacy of human rights.

#AJCONF is open to the public with free entry. Join us on 22nd & 23rd October at Avari Hotel Lahore

Program for the 4th Asma Jahangir Conference.