{"id":64842,"date":"2018-12-28T08:51:25","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T08:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=64842"},"modified":"2018-12-28T08:51:27","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T08:51:27","slug":"asma-jahangir-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/asma-jahangir-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Asma Jahangir"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: Asma Jahangir was posthumously awarded the 2018 UN Human Rights Prize, she belongs to which of the following country? <\/strong><br>(a) India <br>(b) Bangladesh <br>(c) Pakistan <br>(d) Afghanistan <br><strong>Answer: (c) <br>Related facts: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>On 18<sup>th<\/sup> December 2018, Pakistan&#8217;s prominent human\nrights activist and lawyer Asma Jahangir was posthumously awarded the 2018 UN\nHuman Rights Prize.&nbsp;She was one of the four winners of the award which was\nannounced by the United Nations.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Asma Jahangir was\nformer UN Special Reporter on the situation of human rights in the Islamic\nRepublic of Iran.<\/li><li>She was the first woman to serve as the\nPresident of the Supreme Court Bar Association in Pakistan. She was the founder\nof a home-grown human rights movement in Pakistan and co-founded and served as\nChairperson of Human Rights Commission of Pakistan.<\/li>\n<script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-7086827700842303\" data-ad-slot=\"2662621974\"><\/ins>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script>\n<li>Jahangir won numerous international\nawards in recognition of her human rights work including the Martin Ennals\nAward in 1995, the UNESCO\/Bilbao Prize for the Promotion of Culture of Human\nrights and honoured as an&nbsp;<em>Officier dans l\u2019Ordre\nnational de la L\u00e9gion d\u2019honneur<\/em>by\nFrance.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>UN Prize in the Field of Human Rights:-<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>The UN Prize in the Field of Human\nRights is an honorary award given to individuals and organizations in\nrecognition of outstanding achievement in human rights.<\/li><li>This is the tenth award of the prize,\ncoinciding this year with the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of\nHuman Rights.<\/li>\n<script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-7086827700842303\" data-ad-slot=\"2662621974\"><\/ins>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script>\n<li>Every five years, prize winners are\nchosen by a special committee mandated by the UN General Assembly. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/EN\/NewsEvents\/Pages\/HumanRightsPrize2018.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/EN\/NewsEvents\/Pages\/HumanRightsPrize2018.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tribune.com.pk\/story\/1870229\/3-asma-jahangir-awarded-un-human-rights-prize\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">https:\/\/tribune.com.pk\/story\/1870229\/3-asma-jahangir-awarded-un-human-rights-prize\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Asma Jahangir was posthumously awarded the 2018 UN Human Rights Prize, she belongs to which of the following country? (a) India (b) Bangladesh (c) Pakistan (d) Afghanistan Answer: (c) Related facts: On 18th December 2018, Pakistan&#8217;s prominent human rights activist and lawyer Asma Jahangir was posthumously awarded the 2018 UN Human Rights Prize.&nbsp;She was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1147],"tags":[2617],"class_list":["post-64842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ah","tag-awards-honors-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}