Asma Jahangir is one of the foremost human rights lawyers in the world and co-founder of the Pakistan Human Rights Commission. She has been Special Rapporteur of the UN Commission on Human Rights since 1998. Ms. Jahangir was one of Time Magazine’s ‘Women of the Year in 2003’.

Recent articles

The heart of Pakistan’s crisis is arbitrary power. The solution is a democratic system founded on the rule of law, says Asma Jahangir.

Can America make allies of Pakistan’s people rather than its military? In the eighteenth - and last - of our Letters to Americans series, Pakistani human rights campaigner Asma Jahangir writes to Steve Coll, Pulitzer-prizewinning author of ‘Ghost Wars: the secret history of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden’.