Current Affairs - Persons - Discussion

Asma Jahangir, the late Pakistan lawyer, and human rights activist, has been awarded the UN Human Rights Prize for 2018. Her daughter Munizae Jahangir received the prestigious award on behalf of her mother. Jahangir was announced as one of the four winners of the quinquennial prize in October. Other awardees included women's rights activist in Tanzania, Rebeca Gyumi; activist for the rights of indigenous Brazilian communities, Joenia Wapichana, and Ireland's human rights organization, Front Line Defenders.