Salma Sobhan (née Rasheda Akhtar Banu; 11 August 1937 – 30 December 2003)[1] was a Bangladeshi lawyer, academic and human rights activist.
[2] A member of the law faculty of the University of Dhaka, she was a co-founder of Ain-O-Salish Kendra (ASK), a national human rights watchdog.
[1] Sobhan was educated at Westonbirt School in England and studied law at Girton College, Cambridge, in 1958.
She began working with a law firm in Karachi, M/S Surridge & Beecheno, as a legal assistant to practice in the High Court.
[2] Sobhan, along with eight other colleagues, had founded a human rights organization, Ain O Shalish Kendra, in 1986.
[2] Sobhan's publications include Legal Status of Women in Bangladesh (1975), Peasants' Perception of Law (1981), No Better Option?