This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these messages)
|
Amina Masood Janjua, (Urdu: آمنہ مسعود جنجوعہ) : born 28 April 1964, is a Pakistani human rights activist and artist. She is known for highlighting enforced disappearances in Pakistan and for campaigning for the release of her husband, Masood Ahmed Janjua, who disappeared on 30 July 2005. [1] She is the chairperson of the rights group Defense of Human Rights Pakistan (DHR).[2] She provides legal support to prisoners in foreign countries, arranging financial support for the families of victims of enforced disappearance and eradication of torture from jails and detention centers. She appears regularly on local and foreign media as the spokesperson of missing persons and occasionally contributes articles in Urdu and English dailies of the country. [3]
Notes
edit- ^ "Pakistan urged to end enforced disappearances". Amnesty International. 30 August 2011. Retrieved 23 October 2023.
- ^ "Defence of Human Rights Pakistan".
- ^ "Tracking the 'disappeared' – DW – 09/04/2013". dw.com. Retrieved 23 October 2023.