I’m Hina Jilani, I’m a lawyer practicing in 
the Supreme Court of Pakistan, 
I’m also a human rights activist. 
I started my professional career in the end of the 70s.
This was a period during which women’s
rights movement struggled.
I remember I went to jail, just because of
my struggle for women’s rights, 
many like me did too, and several times, during the 80s.
In ’88, Pakistan elected a woman as their prime minister,
and I can also say that not only was a woman elected, 
that particular election showed you how 
much of an impression this movement had made.
Every political party that contested that election after
an 11-year period of repression 
had to have a women’s rights program in their manifestos. 
It became such an important issue.
People who tell me that, 
we’ve seen you for 30 years holding placards,
‘down with discrimination against women,’ 
standing on the roadside protesting,
and all you’ve gained is weight 
I tell them, look, that’s not all I’ve gained.
Look at the lives of women today.
