• Women in Law Awards & Symposium on Diversity & Inclusion

The Federal Ministry of Law and Justice launched the Women in Law Awards and held the first ever symposium on Diversity and Inclusion in Islamabad today. The event marks a key milestone of the collaboration between the MoL&J, Group Development Pakistan, and the Women in Law Initiative Pakistan for increasing women’s representation in law, with support from the Australian High Commission and the British High Commission.
The symposium on diversity and inclusion featured a panel talk on fair representation. The speakers included Hon’able Justice (R) Nasira Iqbal, Barrister Taimur Malik, Barrister Aneesa Agha and ASP Ayesha Gul.

The event also featured the launch of the first “Pakistan Journal of Diversity and Inclusion”.

• Please click on the link to read the PJDI: https://tinyurl.com/2p82ksj8

Lastly, the symposium was followed by a Women in Law Awards ceremony to acknowledge brilliant and talented women in the legal profession. The event welcome the following patrons:
Barrister Maleeka Bukhari
Honorable Justice (R) Sheikh Azmat Saeed
Honorable Federal Minister of Law & Justice Dr. M. Farogh Naseem

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Twenty-six candidates emerged as winners out of seventy-one nominees in eighteen categories. The jury members for the WIL awards included:
Her excellency Baroness Helena Kennedy QC
Honorable Justice (R) Nasira Iqbal
Taimur Malik
Barrister Aneesa Agha
Advocate Navin Merchant

His excellency the Australian High Commissioner, Dr. Geoffrey Shaw, and the British High Commission Political Counsellor, Ms. Iona Thomas, graced the event.