Asma Jahangir is currently UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religious or Belief of the Commission on Human Rights. She took over this position from being UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Arbitrary and Summary Executions.

Ms. Jehangir is a human rights activist that cut her teeth during agitation against the Hudood Laws put in place as part of Gen. Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq's Islamization program in Pakistan. She is a founding member of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan [1], and has served as Secretary-General and later Chair of the same.

Asma Jahangir is also law partner and co-founder with her sister Hina Jilani of Pakistan's first all-female law practice.

External links

• Above text initially based on blog entry at iFaqeer
• News Report on appoinment as Rapporteur on Freedom of Religious or Belief
• Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP)