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Pak lawyer Asma Jahangir wins UN Human Rights Prize posthumously

<span style="color: #222222;">Pakistan's human rights activist and lawyer Asma Jahangir has been posthumously awarded the UN Prize along with three other winners on Friday. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Rebeca Gyumi of Tanzania, Brazil's first indigenous lawyer Joenia Wapichana and Ireland's human rights organisation Front Line Defenders are the other winners of the prize. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights is an honorary award given for outstanding achievement in human rights.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The award ceremony will take place on December 10 on World Human Rights Day in New York.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Before Jahangir three Pakistani women, Begum Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan, Benazir Bhutto and Malala Yousufzai have been accorded the honour.       </span><br />''  

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