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Outlook: Human Rights Lawyer: Why I liked jail

Human Rights Lawyer Hina Jilani

04/06/2015

Human Rights Lawyer: Why I liked jail

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Pioneering lawyer Hina Jilani set up Pakistan's first all-female legal aid practice.

Pioneering lawyer Hina Jilani set up Pakistan's first all-female legal aid practice together with her sister and often defies death threats to do her job.

Pioneering human rights lawyer Hina Jilani set up Pakistan's first all-female legal aid practice together with her sister and often defies death threats to do her job.
Retired Syrian publisher Hussein al-Odat built his career on a lifelong passion for books by setting up a publishing house in Damascus. Hussein looks back on 30 years of change in his industry.

Viviane Sassen is a Dutch photographer whose early life growing up in Kenya influences her work. Reporter Anna Bailey went to meet Viviane at the Photographers' Gallery in London.

Indian inventor Arunachalam Muruganantham devised a low cost sanitary pad that has transformed the lives of millions of women. It took him years of experiments, and much personal sacrifice, to come up with the simple machine. Now scriptwriter Jon Sen has turned Arunachalam's story into a romantic radio comedy called The Man Who Wore Sanitary Pads - starring Navin Chowdhry.

(Photo: Human Rights Lawyer Hina Jilani. Credit: Jeff Moore)

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