Hina Jilani

Hina Jilani (2016)

Hina Jilani (* 1953 in Lahore , Pakistan ) is a lawyer and human rights activist . Together with her sister Asma Jahangir , she founded Pakistan's first women's rights law firm, AGHS Legal Aid Cell (ALAC) in Lahore in 1980. She is also a co-founder of the Human Rights Commission in Pakistan.

Kofi Annan appointed her Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations on the situation of human rights defenders . Their groundbreaking work is still recognized today by non-governmental organizations as a solid foundation for the mandate.

In 2006 she was part of the UN international commission on the situation in Darfur . In 2009 she was a member of the UN commission of inquiry into the Gaza conflict (see also: Goldstone report ).

She is also the patron of the International Student Week in Ilmenau 2009.

She has been a member of the jury of the Nuremberg International Human Rights Award since 2012 .

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Individual evidence

^ Janika Spannagel: Declaration on Human Rights Defenders (1998). In: Sources on the history of human rights. Working Group on Human Rights in the 20th Century, September 2017, accessed on November 1, 2017 .

↑ War crimes in Gaza , ABC News , September 16, 2009. Retrieved February 27, 2011.

personal data
SURNAME	Jilani, Hina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Pakistani lawyer and human rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH	1953
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lahore , Pakistan

[1] Janika Spannagel: Declaration on Human Rights Defenders (1998). In: Sources on the history of human rights. Working Group on Human Rights in the 20th Century, September 2017, accessed on November 1, 2017 .

[2] War crimes in Gaza , ABC News , September 16, 2009. Retrieved February 27, 2011.