'Defending Rights: Human Rights Defenders in the Front Line'. Lecture within the framework of the 5th Theo van Boven Lecture
On Wednesday 12 November Mrs. Hina Jilani delivered the 5th Annual Theo van Boven Lecture, in honour of Prof. Theo van Boven, one of the founders of the Maastricht Centre for Human Rights. The titel of her lecture was: 'Defending Rights: Human Rights Defenders in the Front Line'.
Mrs. Jilani is an internationally known human rights defender from Pakistan. She created Pakistan’s first all-women law firm and co-founded Pakistan’s first legal aid centre. She also founded the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan and Pakistan’s Women Action Forum, a prominent women’s rights group whose campaigns have been at the heart of the democracy movement in the country. She was the first Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General on Human Rights Defenders from 2000 to 2008. Since 2013 she is a member of The Elders.
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