Awareness about Gender-based Violence and the Digital Gender Divide
By Naurah Khurshid
Women and the time they spend on their mobile phones are an easy target of humour directed at them mainly by men....
ٹیکنالوجی اور خواتین
By Khalida Niaz
خیبرپختونخوا کی خواتین بھی اب جدید ٹیکنالوجی سے استفادہ حاصل کررہی ہیں
خیبرپختونخوا کی خواتین کو معاشی طور پر خود مختار بنانے کے...
The Vilification of Female Friendships
By Sabah Bano Malik
A few months ago, in a discussion during a fiction writing class, my fellow writers and I were examining a novel...
The Rise of the Finsta: A Digital Safe Haven for Women
By Munema Zahid
Behind a circular locked icon and a noticeably low follower count lies one of the only spaces 20-year-old Rameen has to herself:...
Women, public spaces and Aurat March!
THIS BLOG HAS BEEN WRITTEN BY BUSHRA IQBAL , MEMBER OF DRF’S NETWORK OF WOMEN JOURNALISTS FOR DIGITAL RIGHTS.
I was to catch a bus...
Feminist activism in digital spaces
With the advent of numerous social media platforms, people of all ages, class and dispositions have come together to form groups and individual connections,...
The ‘fake news’ problem
Trust in state institutions, political parties and media outlets is at an historical low. In the post truth world, information disorder is the spectre...
Surviving trolls and emotional distress
Here’s some unsolicited advice in the age of social media:
“Don’t feed the trolls.”
“Stay low.”
“Ignore.”
Like most unsolicited advice, this too is ineffective.
In Pakistan, trolling is...
Women in Cyberspace
This blog has been written by Tanzeela Mazhar, Member of DRF’s Network of Women Journalists for Digital Rights.
Why do women not feel safe on...
Indo-Pak conflict: online war-mongering
This blog has been written by Zeenat Khan, Member of DRF’s Network of Women Journalists for Digital Rights.
Perhaps more than most countries, Pakistan knows...
