Rights (later known as Human Rights First) in 2001. Sobhan was elected to the Board of the Bangladesh Legal Aid and Service Trust, as well as that of Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC) and Nijera Kori. In 2001, she was elected to the Board of the United Nations Research Institute For Social Development (UNRISD). She was also a member of three international feminist networks: Asia Pacific Women Law and Development, Women Living under Muslim Laws, and Match Canada. Publications Sobhan's publications include Legal Status of Women in Bangladesh (1975), Peasants' Perception of Law (1981), No Better Option? Women Industrial Workers (co-authored in 1988). Legacy The Protichi Foundation started by Amartya Sen has instituted an award for journalists in her name. References 1937 births 2003 deaths Alumni of Girton College, Cambridge Bangladeshi barristers People educated at Westonbirt School Academic staff of the University of Dhaka Bangladeshi feminists Proponents of Islamic feminism Bangladeshi women's rights activists 20th-century Bangladeshi lawyers Suhrawardy family Urdu-speaking Bangladeshi 20th-century Bengalis Bangladeshi women lawyers