HAZARA – Jalila Haider, a Hazara woman from Pakistan, is being recentlynamed among the 100 women of 2019 list compiled by United Kingdom-basednews outlet British Broadcasting Corporation.
Haider, who is a human rights lawyer, specialises in defending women’srights in Pakistan and provides free legal services to women in povertyacross the country.
She is also the founder of We the Humans, a non-profit organisation workingwith local communities to provide opportunities for vulnerable women andchildren.
According to the BBC, she is the first female lawyer from the Hazaracommunity, and in 2018 she went on hunger strike demanding protection forher people.
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Taking to social networking platform Twitter, Haider expressed profound joyat being named in the list and said it was an honour for her to representPakistan on the list.
“Wow, This is an honour for me that I am among the @BBC100women list 2019from Pakistan. I want to congratulate Parveen Ahanger @_APDP also to be theamong the list. More power to the brave women of Kashmir,” she wrote onTwitter.
