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Former SAHR Co-Chair, Asma Jahangir, receives Human Rights award

US body gives HR Award to Asma Jehangir

NEW YORK: United Nations Association of USA (UNA-USA) Leo Nevas Human Rights Task Force awarded Dr Asma Jahangir with 2011 Leo Nevas Human Rights Award.
Asma, former UN Special Rapporteur and prominent human rights lawyer, spoke to a large audience Wednesday about challenges she faced as an international monitor on human rights and as an activist promoting domestic reforms and rule of law in Pakistan.

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SAARC has exhausted its potential: Mani Shankar Aiyar

Senior Congress leader and former Union Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar has said that the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) has exhausted its potential as an inter-governmental movement.

Delivering the inaugural address at the People’s SAARC India Assembly 2001, a two-day national convention of people’s movements in South Asia, here on Tuesday, he said nothing imaginative had come out of SAARC for decades.

“The only thing reported about SAARC meetings is what happens on the sidelines. The same is true of the Non Aligned Movement also. Leaders of SAARC nations meet only to decide when and where to meet next. The circus moves on from one capital to another,” he said.

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