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Salma Sobhan

August 11, 1937 –December 30, 2003

Barrister

Lived 66 years

Born in
London
Passed away in
Dhaka

Salma Sobhan (née Rasheda Akhtar Banu; 11 August 1937 – 30 December 2003) was a Bangladeshi lawyer, academic and human rights activist. She became the first woman barrister in Pakistan in 1959. A member of the law faculty of the University of Dhaka, she was a co-founder of Ain-O-Salish Kendra (ASK), a national human rights watchdog. She was also a key figure at the Bangladesh Institute of Law and International Affairs (BILIA).

Source: Wikipedia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salma_Sobhan