Indira Jaising
Senior Advocate & Human Rights Activist
When the poorest in India need a voice, they find one in Jaising, a lawyer who has dedicated her life to battling injustice. Jaising has fought on behalf of victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster, helped Syrian Christian women in India win property rights equal to their male counterparts’, and helped draft India’s first domestic violence law. Her work has recently led her to Myanmar, where she was appointed by the UN to lead an investigation into the persecution of Rohingya Muslims.
- Fortune World's 50 Greatest Leaders 2018
Indira Jaising is a woman who anyone would think more than twice before messing with. She has a reputation for being formidable—as a lawyer and also as a legal activist. She is India's first woman additional solicitor-general and the first-ever woman to become senior advocate in the 154-year-old Bombay High Court.
- THE WEEK
For half a century she has represented those with no voice. Now India’s first ever female senior advocate has a new battle on her hands
