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Posted by | February 23, 2012
Under Surveillance – a comic which highlights privacy issues

Thanks to Gus Hosein of Privacy International for sharing this comic/graphic novel with us. It is a great resource for explaining to young people how important privacy is and how...

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Posted by | February 23, 2012
Different procedures for different people

I lost my National ID card a week ago and I have been worrying about it because there are many occasions when it is needed for one reason or another....

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Posted by | February 18, 2012
The dark silence.

She is sitting alone in the corner of an empty room wrapped in a white cloth stained by the blood seeping from her bruises and wet from the tears she...

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Posted by | February 18, 2012
Know Your Territory To Remain In-Charge.

Facebook, twitter and other social platforms are incredible tools to manage our social contacts and keep us involved and in touch with our friends, family and the social causes we...

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Posted by | February 18, 2012
The Disgusting Ritual of Bride Hunt.

In our society as soon as a girl is born, we start telling her that her prime goal is to get married off, and without marriage her  whole existence would...

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Posted by | February 9, 2012
E-Crime bill and its ramifications

Ayeshah Alam Khan, Faisal Qureshi with Zahid Jamil and Jehan Ara thrashing out the E Crime Bill https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZ-IhpP0QZk

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Posted by | February 9, 2012
Cyber harassment & VAW

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=OkQvlMlR6FI Jehan Ara speaks with Samaa regarding cyber harassment & VAW

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Posted by | February 5, 2012
Protecting Your Privacy Online

  Every now and then there’s an uproar about Facebook’s ever-changing privacy policy and how users’ privacy settings automatically change as a result. Facebook started off with making sure others...

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Posted by | February 5, 2012
Smile Again!

I first met Salma at a school-turned relief camp in Hyderabad. We were there to distribute rations and Eid gifts for children a day before Eid. The thought of seeing...

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Posted by | February 5, 2012
Fariha Akhtar talks about take back the tech

Fariha Akhtar, blogger, software engineer and new tweet-activist, talks about why she decided to support the Take Back the Tech campaign and what she has been doing as part of...

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