Asma Jahangir Conference
Asma Jahangir Conference Avari Hotel | |
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Location(s) | Lahore |
Country | Pakistan |
Years active | 5 |
Inaugurated | October 13, 2018 |
Most recent | April 2024 |
Next event | 2025 |
Organised by | Asma Jahangir Legal Cell Asma Jahangir Foundation |
Website | asmajahangir |
Asma Jahangir Conference or AJCONF (
Background
Asma Jahangir Conference is named after the Pakistani Human rights activist and lawyer Asma Jahangir.
First – 2018
The first conference was held on 13–14 October 2018 at
Second – 2019
The second conference was held on 19–20 October 2019 at
The second Asma Jahangir Conferences was widely attended by over 3000 participants, mainly from the legal community, to debate and discuss critical legal issues impacting fundamental rights in Pakistan and the South Asian region.
The AJ Conference attendees represented a vast range of ethnic, geographical, professional and gender diversity. It also served as a platform for the legal community to discuss and debate issues as well as to network with their counterparts across Pakistan and globally. The conference created a space for the legal community that was much-needed at a time when civil discourse has and continues to be severely constrained by censorship and the clamp down on freedom of expression.
Third – 2021
The third conference was held on 20–21 November 2021 at
"We believe in freedom of expression, that is why this platform is open to all without any discrimination and we condemn the commotion of the closing session," Munizae Jahangir said.[13]
Fourth – 2022
Several prominent Pakistani leaders, including Foreign Minister
A lawsuit has been filed against
Fifth - 2024
The fifth conference was held on 25–26 April 2024 at Faletti's Hotel in Lahore in memory of Asma Jahangir. More than 100 speakers addressed in a total of 20 different sessions including freedom of the press, rule of law, human rights crisis in Gaza and Jammu and Kashmir, issues of women and minorities rights, unfair accountability, the correct concept of national security and many others.
The conference was organized by AGHS and Asma Jahangir Foundation in collaboration with Pakistan Bar Council and Supreme Court Bar Association of Pakistan. The keynote address of the fifth conference was by Senior Punie Judge of Supreme Court of Pakistan, Justice Mansoor Ali Shah.
German Ambassador to Pakistan
References
- ^ "عاصمہ جہانگیر کانفرنس: 'سب ادارے اپنے اپنے دائرہ اختیار میں رہیں' | Dw | 20.10.2019". Deutsche Welle.
- ^ "پاکستانی میڈیا چھپی ہوئی طاقتوں کے کنٹرول میں ہے؟".
- ^ "Pakistan denies entry to media watchdog official".
- ^ "Asma Jahangir Conference organisers condemn 'muzzling' of Nawaz's speech after internet cut off". 21 November 2021.
- ^ "AJCONF 2018 – Asma Jahangir Foundation". Archived from the original on 30 November 2021. Retrieved 22 November 2021.
- ^ "Asma Jahangir Conference 2018 to be held in Lahore on October 13-14". 11 October 2018.
- ^ "'12 children on average subjected to sexual abuse daily'" (PDF). aghslaw.net. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 July 2021. Retrieved 28 August 2023.
- ^ Reporter, The Newspaper's Staff (18 October 2019). "Asma Jahangir Conference starts today". DAWN.COM.
- ^ "Asma Jahangir conference: Asma Jahangir Conference kicks off". www.thenews.com.pk.
- ^ "Third Asma Jahangir conference on Nov 20-21". www.thenews.com.pk.
- ^ "Rare gathering of top judges to set tone for Asma Jahangir moot".
- ^ "'Nawaz's speech concluding Asma Jahangir Conference equal to mocking country, constitution'".
- ^ "Asma Jahangir Conference: Wires cut during Nawaz's address".
- ^ a b "PTM's Manzoor Pashteen booked under terrorism charges for speech at Asma Jahangir Conference". 24 October 2022.
- ^ "Azam Tarar resigns as law minister". 25 October 2022.
- ^ "German ambassador's speech at rights conference in Lahore interrupted by pro-Palestine protester". 27 April 2024.
- ^ "Pro-Palestinian protester disrupts German envoy's speech at Asma Jahangir Conference".
- ^ "Pro-Palestinian protest disrupts German envoy's speech at Asma Jahangir Conference". 27 April 2024.