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سائبر ہراسمنٹ ہیلپ لائن آپ کی رہنمائی کے لیے ہر وقت موجود ہے، اگر آپ کو کسی بھی آن لائن ہراسگی کا سامنا ہے
تو آپ ہمیں (080039393) پر کال کرسکتے ہیں
آپ ہمیں ای میل (helpdesk
@digitalrightsfoundation
.pk) اور ہمارے سوشل میڈیا اکاونٹس پر بھی رابطہ کر سکتے ہیں
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"If you trust me, give me your password." 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩
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"Send me your pictures. I promise I'll delete them later." 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩
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Last but certainly not the least, the last contribution in our digital art competition is by
@mademecrazier
! 🖌️✨
The title of her artwork is "Mein Yahan Hoon / میں یہاں ہوں".
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Acc to
@wikileaks
, GCHQ & NSA acquired access to NADRA database to get hold of the ID records of PK citizens | Read
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Today is the International Day to End
#ViolenceAgainstWomen
, kicking off the
#16Days
of Activism!Our
@NWJDR
member & renowned journalist,
@AmberRShamsi
,shares her experience of working in the field as a woman journalist & the violence women face at workplace
#HearMeToo
(Part 1)
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"If you have nothing to hide, why can't I see your phone?" 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩
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WhatsApp's new privacy policy has been been met with a lot of criticism online, and rightfully so!
WhatsApp is essentially forcing you to share your data with Facebook, otherwise you will not be able to use WhatsApp
#WhatsAppNewPolicy
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We're unleashing the 1st edition of our feminist e-magazine Digital5050 onto the feeds of your social media. The magazine is packed with powerful stories, visuals, photographs & videos on the impact of COVID-19 on women & girls.
Read and share!
Link:
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"Harassment is intentional, repetitive and always has a power dynamic involved. No women invites harassment and it is always unwelcome and causes a person discomfort"
@nighatdad
having an honest and informative discussion with the women at GC, Gulberg.
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We spoke to the lovely
@sawerapasha
about the challenges she faces as a female journalist covering sports in Pakistan and how she shuts down the trolls.
#CoveringFemaleSports
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"Let me add my fingerprint to your phone. It'll be cute." 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩
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DRF's
@nighatdad
joined
@HamidMirPAK
Capital Talk to shed light on the culture of online harassment against women and women journalists. The need for structural reform and due process in the system is important to change this online toxic culture.
@Mehmal
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These past two days, our volunteers have been working to add Wikipedia entries regarding Pakistani women, feminist issues and history.
We managed to add 50+ articles!
#WikiGap
#GenderWikiGap
#Editathon
@SwedeninPK
,
@mmfd_Pak
,
@unwomen_pak
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Our fourth artwork is by an amazing artist and illustrator Ramsha Amjad participating in our digital art competition! 🖌️✨
The title of her artwork is "Digital Dystopia: Confronting Deepfakes and Preserving Freedom of Expression" -
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Award-winning journalist
@AmberRShamsi
will be joining our tweet chat for the launch of our latest report on
#FakeNews
tomorrow at 1 pm!
#SiftingTruthFromLies
#FakeNewsInDigitalAge
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DRF is excited to announce that our Executive Director
@nighatdad
has joined the United Nations Secretary General
@antonioguterres
's high-level advisory board on Artificial Intelligence (AI) along with other experts from across the globe.
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The second issue of our feminist e-magazine is here! This issue's theme is "Mental Health and Coping During COVID 19".
We have a great collection of essays and articles in this issue, written by our talented group of writers!
Check out the issue here:
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Important message by the Professor of sociology and a Feminist from Pakistan,
@nidkirm
against rape being used a weapon of power and why it needs to be stopped immediately.
#Changethestory
#ViolenceAgainstWomen
#16days
#GenerationEquality
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Due to increased cyber harassment cases against young women & girls,
@DigitalRightsPK
under its partnership with
@unwomen_pak
& World Bank is strengthening its cyber harassment helpline & Digital Help desk to address your complaints 24/7 for next 3 months
@Illango_WB
#Covid_19
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Meet our panelists!
@ReplyTariq
We are delighted to have Tariq Malik, the Chairman of NADRA, speaking at our panel "How Private is the Digital ID in Pakistan?"
We're excited to tune into the discussions that await us at our National Data Privacy Conference!
#Privacyisaright
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Call for pitches for Digital 50.50!
Theme: AI Bias & Implications on Gender & Minorities
We are looking for innovative submissions for Digital 50.50 addressing human prejudices translating into AI and algorithms which impacts marginalized groups.
Deadline: 28th July 2023
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DRF strongly condemns the downgrading of access to Wikipedia in Pakistan. The PTA has 'degraded' access to Wikipedia for 48 hours with the possibility of completely banning the platform if it does not comply with their requests.
#SaveWikipedia
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Justice Ayesha Malik passed a judgement in the Lahore High Court today outlawing the ‘two finger test’ and hymen testing of female victims of sexual violence.
This is a monumental judgement in the arena of women’s rights in Pakistan
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Dog whistles online amplifies trolling and abuse online against women journalists which leads to offline consequences and an impact on an individuals protection and security
@nighatdad
@HamidMirPAK
@Mehmal
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What is
#Gaslighting
?
Gaslighting is a form of emotional manipulation in which the manipulator directly or indirectly sows the seed of doubt in someone to make them question their own perception, memory or judgement .
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WE'RE NOW LIVE!
Have you been subjected to harassment at the workplace or in public? In need of confidential legal assistance?
We provide a comprehensive directory of pro bono lawyers for victims or harassment and abuse.
To know more:
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The
@mohrpakistan
, with the assistance of DRF and concerned citizens, has submitted an application with the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) regarding a FB group titled "Say Yes to Harassment" that propagated support for violence against women and children.
@ShireenMazari1
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We are proud to present the third issue of our e-magazine, 'Digital 50.50'.
This issue's theme is
'Navigating Online Spaces During The Global Pandemic'.
The amazing writers have written about just about everything; from Tinder to how CSOs are changing under COVID.
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Yesterday, pro-India twitter accounts sent out a flurry of tweets about a civil war in Karachi, which was part of a massive disinformation campaign. This campaign was timed to coincide with Pakistan's FATF sessions.
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We're thrilled to unveil the first digital artist
@fazliazeem
out of the six incredible talents participating in our digital art competition! 🎨
His artwork is titled “Sword of Damocles” and it is a commentary on the paradoxical essence of AI and technology -
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What is EMOTIONAL MANIPULATION?
This term has been making the rounds nowadays, but what does it really mean?
Emotional manipulation is an act of seeking power over someone by controlling their emotions through employing dishonest strategies.
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We’re all on our phones and laptops for extended periods of time. It can be super exhausting and most of the time you won’t even feel it. These are some simple steps to create a better balance, on line and off line.
@unwomen_pak
@aisha_mukhtar
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Afia Salam talks about the challenges women face in the workpalce and the barrier of workplace harassment
#16Days
#ViolenceAgainstWomen
#HearMeToo
@afiasalam
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DRF is proud to announce the launch of it's annual report for the year 2018 in which we've captured the work we've done throughout the year, with our partners and beneficiaries.
Read the report here:
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We're Hiring!
Title: Cyber Harassment Helpline Support Officer
Salary: PKR 80,000
Job Description: Working to provide support to victims of online harassment and violence through the Cyber Harassment Helpline
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Are you being harassed, threatened, blackmailed or bullied online? Is it making you feel stressed and anxious?
Call us on our helpline between 9AM-5PM because help is just a ring away!
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On
#DataPrivacyDay
, we are sharing the imp points made by
@ReplyTariq
, Chairperson at NADRA, about the crucial need for all citizens to have an identification.
His take is insightful & is geared towards ensuring that each citizen has a "unique" identity.
#PrivacyisaRight
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In the newest addition to our blog, our smart-as-a-whip intern Owais Sabri has penned down a piece on Data Protection Legislations Around the World. Give it a read!
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@mubasherlucman
@Rabipirzada
@NJLahori
@itsmeeshashafi
Ahhh, the classic "why did she stay silent for so long?".
We don't know,
@mubasherlucman
, maybe because of people like you!
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Twitter has recently been abuzz with talks of social media bingos!
Well, we think it's time to take a step back and think a little bit about our relationship with our digital lives, and maybe even detox a little bit!
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What is the highlight of your day? Ours is
@Malala
endorsing the Cyber Harassment Helpline ❤ we're celebrating today!
Photo:
@nighatdad
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We at DRF proudly present our "Annual Report 2019".
Through this report we want to celebrate our team and its effort over the last year.
We aim to keep striving towards having a safe and equal digital experience for all.
Read the entire report here:
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"A lot of women in Pakistan only have access to shared phone, and for them, their privacy is of the utmost important, especially given how apps like WhatsApp are only one account per phone, " - Dr Maryam Mustafa
#PrivacyisaRight
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@mubasherlucman
@Rabipirzada
@NJLahori
Doxing the victim by displaying her personal information (in this case her address) in an effort to intimidate her and in a total and utter violation of her privacy.
CHECK.
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“When I go outside, I like to imagine what Lahore would be like as a walkable, feminine space, similar to a ‘trinjan’. One communal hub where we can walk freely, wear what we want, sing and dance and eat and read and paint as we desire. No fear of being monitored or documented.
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"Provisions in the law have been weaponized against victims to silence them. The same treatment occurs with journalists and human rights defenders"
@nighatdad
speaking at
#AJCONF21
at a panel discussing "Victim Blaming", happening now.
#AJCONF21
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We understand that receiving unwanted and lewd messages makes you feel unsecure in the digital space and causes extreme emotional distress.
If you’re stuck in a similar situation, you can reach out to us on our Cyber Harassment Helpline on 0800-39393 any day from 9AM-5PM.
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In August, the Cyber Harassment Helpline received a total of 574 complaints.
Our Helpline is dedicated to assisting victims of cyber harassment by providing support in the form of digital safety guidance, legal aid, and mental health assistance.
Reach our Helpline at 0800-39393
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Exciting news! 📢
DRF's Executive Director
@nighatdad
& DC Lahore
@R7Haider
signed an MoU to empower Lahore's young adults with digital safety and literacy sessions! 🌐
Stay tuned for the 'Hamara Internet Mahfooz Internet' workshops under the
@HamaraInternet
flagship program!
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Team DRF is proud to present the fourth issue of 'Digital 50.50'.
Our theme for this issue is 'Gender and Privacy'. We're excited to share the work of these amazing womxn, and we hope you enjoy reading this issue.
Read it here:
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DRF condemns arrests and harassment for online speech and dissent.
ڈیجیٹل رائٹس فاؤنڈیشن پی ٹی آئی کے کارکنوں اور حامیوں کی گرفتاریوں اور ہراساں کرنے کے واقعات کی مذمت کرتا ہے۔
Read our full statement below.
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E-zine Launch: Feminist Movements Go Online in Pakistan
Date: October 20, Tuesday
Time: 7:00-8:00 PM
DRF is launching is two-part e-magazine titled “Feminist Movements Go Online in Pakistan” to talk about the role online spaces have had in the feminist movement in the country.
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#Wordpress
is a source of livelihood for many developers who are solely dependant on it. Blocking it, will be a huge catastrophe
#Pakistan
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Our Cyber Harassment Helpline will now be operating everyday.
From Monday to Sunday, you can read our helpline at 0800-39393 between 9am to 5pm.
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.
@nighatdad
speaks to
@TEDTalks
about the fight to create a more accessible internet for women and other marginalized groups in Pakistan -- "How one woman in Pakistan is fighting to make the Internet a safer place for women"
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We have some really powerful writing in this issue.
This includes a piece about victim blaming by
@curlistani
"Is it unpleasant to read stories of abuse? Yes. Is it important to allow the victims to talk? Yes. Does your discomfort matter more than the victim? No."
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@mubasherlucman
@Rabipirzada
@NJLahori
@itsmeeshashafi
Nadia Jamil: "I know women who have leveled accusations for petty revenge".
CHECK!
Given how statistically small false accusations are, choosing to mention it here has given the channel the sound bite it needed to discredit the brave women coming forward. Thanks.
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Technology is helping women speak up, and recent amendments in the law are good, too. But focus needs to be on the implementation of these laws for change to occur.
@nighatdad
speaks about steps the need for action to combat violence crime against women at
#AJCONF21
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Digital 50.50's first 2021 issue covers the theme of Women's History Month!
Our writers and artists have highlighted the contributions of some amazing women in Pakistan and have shed light on the discrimination that silences their achievements.
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Minister
@ShireenMazari1
at our Data Privacy Conference yesterday discussing the 'Protection of Journalists & Media Professionals Bill’ as a significant achievement of the Pak govt. in ensuring freedom of expression of journalists can be exercised w/o fear.
@mohrpakistan
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66 women’s rights, human rights, digital rights and feminists groups in Pakistan have endorsed a statement condemning the internet and communications blackout in Kashmir.
#SolidaritywithKashmir
#KeepItOn
#InternetShutdowns
Read the full statement here:
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DRF is proud to launch its Five Year Report of the Cyber Harassment Helpline for 2021. The report is a compilation of our team's hard work and dedication to ending online abuse.
Click here to read the full report:
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Over the last 5 years, the Cyber Harassment Helpline has helped survivors whose entire lives have been turned upside down.
We don’t just listen to our callers; we spend hours trying to equip them with the tools that they need to escape their situations. We help. We inform.
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Meet our team!
Shmyla is the Director of Policy and Research at DRF and forms the backbone of our policy & research work. Her interests include privacy, law And gender.
She will be moderating our panel "How Private is the Digital ID in Pakistan?" at our conference tomorrow.
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We MUST hold our friends accountable
We MUST not validate their "jokes"
We HAVE to challenge the "boys club"
We HAVE to challenge their views
Things are only getting worse for women, online and in real life.
This is femicide, and we must end it! NOW!
#EndFemicide
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DRF is hiring!
We're looking to bring a new Communications Manager on board! If you enjoy working creatively and collaboratively then this is the role for you!
Please send the specified documents in an email to hr
@digitalrightsfoundation
.pk by the 10th of August.
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"The idea of a “smart city” is primarily a marketing concept, used to sell data-intensive technologies under the pretext of improving the functioning of cities."
via
@privacyint
#SafeCitiesForAll
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We all are accountable in the current situation of physical, verbal, and emotional attacks on women. To avoid these inhuman incidents we need to expose the problematic social behaviours that lead to potential cyber and physical harassment.
#EndFemicide
#JusticeForNoor
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This map shows the places from where people reached out to report internet connectivity issues. If your district is also facing little to no internet/4G connection, let us know.
Read our joint statement:
@BoloBhi
#InternetForAll
#DigitalPakistanForAll
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Today we launch our campaign called 'A to Z of Cyber Harassment'. We'll go through everything that makes up cyber harassment and what all we can do to protect ourselves, as well as what all we need to look out for.
#MehfoozInternet
#HamaraInternet
@unwomen_pak
@aisha_mukhtar
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The wait is over!
'Digital 50.50 : Gender and Violence' is here!
Keeping in line with
#16DaysOfActivism
we chose this theme to talk about gender based violence and the many different forms it takes in our society.
Read the issue here:
#OrangeTheWorld
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As cyber harrassment cases rise in Pak during
#COVID_19
,
@unwomen_pak
& DRF are strengthening their collaboration to provide physcosocial counselling & generating analytical data/stats on cases to develop actionable policy recommendations for GOP
#HamaraInternetMehfoozInternet
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Our first panelist for the Rapid Fire Chat for World Press Freedom Day 2022 is none other than the renowned journalist Amber Rahim Shamsi.
@AmberRShamsi
#WorldPressFreedomDay22
#WPFD22
#SahafatAurSachai
#JournalismUnderDigitalSiege
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@mubasherlucman
Inviting women on your show to discredit other women.
CHECK!
Special thanks to
@Rabipirzada
and
@NJLahori
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As part of our
#16DaysofActivism
, we asked our Project Managers to tell us one thing they're super proud they achieved in 2020 at DRF.
@shmyla
talks about our Pakistan portal launch in collaboration with
@IWFhotline
.
#OrangeTheWorld
#ActivismInPandemic
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Our Cyber Harassment Helpline is open and available Monday to Sunday, from 9AM to 5PM.
If you or someone you know is being harassed, bullied, or threatened online, please reach out to our Helpline at 0800-39393.
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Today on
#DataPrivacyDay
we are going to release our study on ride sharing apps and
#Privacy
in Pakistan. Stay tuned
#Uber
#Careem
#DataProtection
#DataProtectionDay
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We are all set to rock the stage and speak about our work at
#empoderaxlosODS
@nighatdad
#WomenInTech
#InternetForAll
#NoToCyberHarassment
#Helpline
#Malaga
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Our second panel on 'Digital Rights for journalists and media practitioners: where are we headed' starts now with
@Benazir_Shah
@yazdanifauzia
@annie_shirazi
@insiyasyed
@AfshanMasab
#ResilienceInMedia2023
@NWJDR
#NWJDR2023
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@mubasherlucman
@Rabipirzada
@NJLahori
Reducing a genuine case of harassment to a contract dispute.
CHECK!
While we're at it, good for
@itsmeeshashafi
for asking for
#EqualPay
in the workplace, the same as her male colleagues.
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DRF's Cyber Harassment Helpline gets covered on
@URDUVOA
and
@nighatdad
discusses the ways through which cyber crime could be perpetrated especially when pictures of women are uploaded and shared online without their consent.
آن لائن ہراسمنٹ کے خلاف سائبر ہیلپ لائن
#VOAUrdu
#Pakistan
#CyberHelpline
#Helpline
#Harassment
#CyberHarassment
@DigitalRightsPK
@nighatdad
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Najia Asher (
@najiaashar
), CEO and Founder of Media Baithak, talks about the
#MeToo
movement and its implications on Pakistani society in the future.
#ChangeTheStory
#ViolenceAgainstWomen
#16days
#GenerationEquality
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DRF mourns the loss of IA Rehman Sahab.
He was a true champion of human rights, and an inspiration for all of us working towards making Pakistan a more equal place. Over the years he widened his understanding of the digital world.
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Please stop using Truecaller as it is quite an invasive app. It uploads the names and phone numbers of all your contacts to their servers and makes them searchable by other people.
#DigitalSafety
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@mubasherlucman
@Rabipirzada
@NJLahori
@itsmeeshashafi
Nadia Jamil advising girls to avoid socializing with colleagues.
CHECK!
Somehow polite conversation is an invitation to violate your consent.
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The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has announced that it will require all VPN users to register their VPNs with their Internet Service Providers (ISPs) by June 30th as part of their efforts to ““to promote legal ICT services/business in Pakistan”. 1/5
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@mubasherlucman
Displaying pictures of Meesha with her harasser, so as to cast doubt about her experience.
CHECK!
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We are launching our latest research on
#FakeNews
tomorrow. Please join us for a tweet chat at 1 pm on 15 Jan 2020 with our researcher
@ramshajahangir
and prominent journalists
@AmberRShamsi
@afiasalam
@UmaimaBlogger
and
@ZarrarKhuhro
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In order to include civil society we need to address the shrinking civic spaces across the world and civil society must be given resources to ensure they continue to do the difficult labour in their contexts -
@nighatdad
#SummitForDemocracy
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Happy International Women’s Day to all the powerful and resilient women out there!
Today, we celebrate women who are making waves and fighting for the rights of women and gender minorities everywhere. 🌊🌊🌊
One such icon is the
@mohrpakistan
Rights,
@ShireenMazari1
!
#IWD2022
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Our team lead
@nighatdad
invites all of you to attend our National Privacy Conference that starts tomorrow, the 9th of March!
We hope to see you all join us virtually.
All of our talks will be streamed on our Facebook page, which can be found here:
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Our consultation with lawyers, journalists and civil society on sexual harassment laws is happening right now!
The discussion is on the question: why are sexual harassment laws unable to protect those most vulnerable among us?
#CombatingHarassmentInPakistan
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We are back with the theme for 2023's second edition of Digital 50.50. We are looking forward to accept pitches on the role of women in the gig economy and how technology facilitates this. Please submit your pitches by 22nd May to mariem
@digitalrightsfoundation
.pk
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Our team lead,
@nighatdad
spoke with
@92newschannel
about our Cyber Harassment Helplines report for 2020.
She shared an important message about data and how we need to be careful about sharing it with others.
You can read the 2020 report here:
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We have a surprise in store for you on 1st Dec! DRF is introducing the first episode of its “E-Baithak” podcast series. Tune in for a conversation about Consensual Sharing of Private Pictures, followed by a segment on the biggest technological mystery ever.
#16Days
#HearMeToo
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Let's make the internet a safe and inclusive space for all.
#SaferInternetDay
#SaferInternetDay2023
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