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About Asma Jahangir

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’.

Articles by Asma Jahangir

Tuesday 24th March

Pakistan: a path through danger

The heart of Pakistan’s crisis is arbitrary power. The solution is democracy and rule by law
Tuesday 2nd November

America, Pakistan, and the limits of militarism

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’.
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