Pakistan Asma Jahangir obituary Lawyer and human rights campaigner who fought for women, children and religious minorities in her native Pakistan Asma Jahangir speaking in Lahore in 2014. Photograph: Arif Ali/AFP/Getty ImagesFor four decades the Pakistani lawyer Asma Jahangir, who has died aged 66 after a cardiac arrest, led the way in the struggle for human rights – especially those of women, children and religious minorities. Her chapter was entitled Human Rights Are Women’s Rights, because, as she told me: “You cannot have human rights in a society if you do not have women’s rights.” She also wrote Divine Sanction? Asma is survived by her husband, Tahir Jahangir, whom she married in 1974, a son and two daughters, and Hina. • Asma Jilani Jahangir, lawyer and human rights activist, born 27 January 1952; died 11 February 2018

Source: The Guardian February 13, 2018 12:56 UTC