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Waheed Ahmad

Waheed Ahmad is a Human Rights Lawyer from Pakistan who currently is an Advisory Committee Member at The National Commission of Human Rights Pakistan. He has worked as an Appellate Court Attorney for the past 24 years and defended more than a thousand clients (juveniles, women, and minorities including the LGBT community) most of them deprived of their fundamental human rights. He has been invited to over thirty-three countries to deliver lectures and speeches on the finite matters of Pakistan’s politics and Legal system.

Name
Waheed Ahmad
Occupation
Advocate
Expertise

Caste discrimination or persecution, Deportees/criminal deportees, Disability, Document Authentication, Ethnic discrimination or persecution, Forced marriage, Gang-related violence/non-state actors, Gender-based violence/domestic violence, Healthcare access/health systems capacity, HIV/AIDS, Journalist persecution, Land tenure disputes, LGBTQ, Likelihood of destitution or homelessness, Mental illness, Military/police service, Political persecution, Prison conditions, Religious discrimination or persecution, Government/state actor persecution, Risk of retaliation, Safe internal relocation, Sexual abuse/assault, Specialized medical services, Sufficiency of protection, Torture, Trafficking, Tribal discrimination or persecution, Violence against children/child abuse, Blasphemy Laws, Divorce, Child Custody, Maintenance & Other Family Laws, Extremist and violent groups, including religious groups,  Human rights violations,  Women issues: honour killing, Domestic violence, Child trafficking, Minority and religious groups, LGBT Community,  Availability of medical services etc

Experience

Has prepared more than 200 expert reports for more than 100 firms based in Australia, Holland, Canada, Hong Kong, United Kingdom and the United States of America.

Publications

Article: “Women Rights and Improvement of Condition of Rural Women “published in “Women Work & Health Book of Abstracts “during III International Congress in Stockholm 2002

Article: “We should respect Human Rights and Dignity of Affected of HIV/AIDS” published in Magazine BAR & BENCH 2004

Article: “Women Trafficking on the Rise in South Asia” published in Magazine BAR & BENCH 2004

Languages
English , Urdu , Punjabi
Ethnic groups expertise
Asian
Contact email
Phone
[Private to EIN members]
Address
[Private to EIN members]