Hina Jilani

Hina Jilani is a pioneering lawyer and pro-democracy campaigner; a leading activist in Pakistan's women's movement and an international champion of human rights. She is a former UN Special Representative on the situation of human rights defenders and a member of The Elders, the group of independent global leaders working for peace and human rights.

The voices of the people cannot disappear from the United Nations

Seventy years after its founding, the United Nations is still far from realising the lofty words of its charter. How can UN member states seize their collective responsibility to protect human rights?

By Hina Jilani

/ 9 Dec 2015