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Salma Sobhan
Bangladeshi lawyer and sister of Princess Sarvath Al Hassan · Bangladesh · On the map · Lived 1937 to 2003 · aged 66
Salma Sobhan 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.
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She was also a key figure at the Bangladesh Institute of Law and International Affairs (BILIA).