Right Livelihood Award Lecture Zurich
Great speech of Asma Jahangir, the winner of this year’s award 2014, followed by an interesting discussion with the ambassador Philippe Welti and the audience.
Asma Jahangir is Pakistan’s leading human rights lawyer. For three decades, she has shown incredible courage in defending the most vulnerable Pakistanis – women, children, religious minorities and the poor.
“…for defending, protecting and promoting human rights in Pakistan and more widely, often in very difficult and complex situations and at great personal risk.”
As an example of the media coverage the article in Tagesanzeiger: