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Hina Jilani

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Hina Jilani (حنا جیلانی.) (born 1953) is an advocate of the Supreme Court of Pakistan and a human-rights activist from Lahore in Punjab, Pakistan. [1]

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Asma Jahangir

Asma Jilani Jahangir (عاصمہ جہانگیر|ʿĀṣimah Jahāṉgīr; 27 January 1952 – 11 February 2018) was a Pakistani human rights lawyer and social activist who co-founded and chaired the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan.

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Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity

Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity is an annual international humanitarian award, which is initiated to recognize and express gratitude to those courageous individuals or organizations that impact on preserving human life and advancing humanitarian causes.

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Convent of Jesus and Mary, Lahore

The Convent of Jesus and Mary, Lahore, commonly referred to as "Convent", is a girls-only school situated in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.

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Day for Darfur

Day for Darfur is an international advocacy campaign that works to bring together activists in cities around the globe in calling for action on the crisis in Darfur, western Sudan.

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Desmond Travers

Desmond Travers (born 1941) is a retired Irish Army colonel.

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Ela Bhatt

Ela Ramesh Bhatt (born 7 September 1933) is an Indian cooperative organiser, activist and Gandhian, who founded the Self-Employed Women's Association of India (SEWA) in 1972, and served as its general secretary from 1972 to 1996.

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Gaza War (2008–09)

The Gaza War, also known as Operation Cast Lead, also known as the Gaza Massacre and the Battle of al-Furqan by Hamas, Secondary source, Abdul-Hameed al-Kayyali, Studies on the Israeli Aggression on Gaza Strip: Cast Lead Operation / Al-Furqan Battle, 2009 was a three-week armed conflict between Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and Israel that began on 27 December 2008 and ended on 18 January 2009 in a unilateral ceasefire.

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Ginetta Sagan

Ginetta Sagan (June 1, 1925 – August 25, 2000) was an Italian-born American human rights activist best known for her work with Amnesty International on behalf of prisoners of conscience.

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Hina (given name)

Hina (حنا) is a female name.

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Honor killing

An honor killing or shame killing is the murder of a member of a family, due to the perpetrators' belief that the victim has brought shame or dishonor upon the family, or has violated the principles of a community or a religion, usually for reasons such as refusing to enter an arranged marriage, being in a relationship that is disapproved by their family, having sex outside marriage, becoming the victim of rape, dressing in ways which are deemed inappropriate, engaging in non-heterosexual relations or renouncing a faith.

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Honour killing in Pakistan

Honour killings in Pakistan are known locally as karo-kari (کاروکاری).

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Human rights activists

Human rights defenders or human rights activists are people who, individually or with others, act to promote or protect human rights.

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International Commission of Inquiry on Darfur

The following is a summary of a public report.

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International Women's Program

The International Women's Program by the Open Society Foundations considers the advancement of women's human rights and gender equality an essential element in its vision for the future of democratic societies.

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Israel, Palestine, and the United Nations

Issues relating to the State of Israel, the State of Palestine and other aspects of the Arab–Israeli conflict occupy repeated annual debate times, resolutions and resources at the United Nations.

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Khalida Jarrar

Khalida Jarrar (خالدة جرار.) is a Palestinian feminist and human rights activist.

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LGBT rights in Pakistan

Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights in Pakistan are considered taboo.

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List of jurists

The following lists are of prominent jurists, including judges, listed in alphabetical order by jurisdiction.

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List of visitors to Tsitsernakaberd

Tsitsernakaberd is the official memorial to the Armenian Genocide victims in Yerevan, Armenia.

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Marie-Claude Bibeau

Marie-Claude Bibeau is a Canadian Liberal politician, who was elected to represent the riding of Compton—Stanstead in the House of Commons of Canada in the 2015 federal election.

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Media Legal Defence Initiative

The Media Legal Defence Initiative (MLDI) (or Media Legal Defense Initiative) is a non-governmental organization established in 2008 to provide legal assistance to journalists (including bloggers) and independent media.

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Millennium Peace Prize for Women

In 2001, as part of International Alert's Women Building Peace campaign, the United Nations Development Fund for Women awarded a Millennium Peace Prize for Women.

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Outline of the United Nations

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the United Nations: United Nations – international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace.

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Peter Gabriel

Peter Brian Gabriel (born 13 February 1950) is an English singer-songwriter, record producer and humanitarian who rose to fame as the original lead singer and flautist of the progressive rock band Genesis.

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Protection International

Protection International (PI) is an international non-profit organisation dedicated to the protection of human rights defenders (HRDs).

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Richard Horton (editor)

Richard Charles Horton, FRCP, FMedSci, (born 29 December 1961) is the present editor-in-chief of The Lancet, a United Kingdom-based medical journal.

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Ruben Vardanyan (businessman)

Ruben Karlenovich Vardanyan (born May 25, 1968, in Yerevan) is a Russian social entrepreneur, impact investor and venture philanthropist, cofounder of the Aurora Humanitarian Initiative, initiator and founding partner of Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO and its first president (2006–2011), founder of UWC Dilijan College in Armenia, founder and chairman of the board of directors of PHILIN (Philanthropy Infrastructure), founder and partner of Phoenix Advisors, former CEO and controlling shareholder of Troika Dialog, an investment bank (1992–2012).

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Sabihuddin Ahmed

Justice Sabihuddin Ahmed (صبیح الدین احمد; 1949-2009) was a former Chief Justice of the Sindh High Court and a justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan.

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Samia Sarwar

Samia Sarwar (1970 – 6 April 1999) was a Pakistani woman, who was shot dead in her lawyers' office in Lahore in an "honor killing." Samia Sarwar was a married woman with two children, belonging to an affluent family of Peshawar.

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Shahtaj Qizilbash

Shahtaj Qizilbash (1905 – 2008) was a women's right advocate in Pakistan.

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Sister-hood

sister-hood is an international platform for the voices of women of Muslim heritage founded in 2007 by Norwegian, film-maker and human rights activist Deeyah Khan through her media and arts production company Fuuse.

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Special Representative of the Secretary-General

A Special Representative of the Secretary-General is a highly respected expert who has been appointed by the Secretary-General of the United Nations to represent her/him in meetings with heads of state on critical human rights issues.

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The Elders (organization)

The Elders is an international non-governmental organisation of public figures noted as elder statesmen, peace activists, and human rights advocates, who were brought together by Nelson Mandela in 2007.

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United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict

The United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, also known as the Goldstone Report, was a team established in April 2009 pursuant to Resolution A/HRC/RES/S-9/1 of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) of 12 January 2009, following the Gaza War as an independent international fact-finding mission "to investigate all violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law by the occupying Power, Israel, against the Palestinian people throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory, particularly in the occupied Gaza Strip, due to the current aggression".

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Women human rights defenders

Women human rights defenders (WHRDs) are women who defend human rights, and defenders of all genders who defend the rights of women and rights related to gender and sexuality.

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Women in Pakistan

The status of women in Pakistan is one of systemic gender subordination even though it varies considerably across classes, regions, and the rural/urban divide due to uneven socioeconomic development and the impact of tribal, feudal, and capitalist social formations on women's lives.

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World Woman

WORLD WOMAN is a festival of art and activism in Oslo founded in 2015 by filmmaker and activist Deeyah Khan.

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2007 in Pakistan

Events from the year 2007 in Pakistan.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hina_Jilani

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