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Sep 01, 1930 93 years old
Pakistani activist
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About Ibn Abdur Rehman
- Ibn Abdur Rehman, also known as I.
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- Rehman ( born 1 September 1930 in Harayana, British India) is a Pakistani peace and human-rights advocate and a veteran communist.
- A protégé of the great Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz, he became chief editor of the Pakistan Times newspaper in 1989.
- He is the founding chair of the Pakistan-India Peoples’ Forum for Peace and Democracy.
- He has been a director of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) since 1990 and is widely considered as one of the most prominent human rights activists.
- Rehman has been influential for promoting peace in the Indo-Pakistani wars and conflicts and in Kashmir conflict as well as for other human rights issues in Pakistan.In November 2007, on a visit to India, he told The Hindu (newspaper), "I've been working to defend people's human rights all my life.
- And, I will continue to do so."In 2015, many human rights activists including I.
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- Rehman urged the Pakistani Government to 'criminalise child labour in hazardous environments'.
- According to Dawn (newspaper), one activist doctor said, "I have seen cases where children have contracted tuberculosis because they worked in hazardous environments.
- Making children work such jobs should be criminalized."
