As we stood at “Do Talwar” with our banners and placards raising our voices against irresponsible statements from politicians, insensitive and unethical reporting by media and increased unchecked incidents of...
Posted by | February 19, 2012
This article was originally published in Newsline's March 2011 issue “There are already so many laws; why do we need new ones?” was one female politician’s response to enacting women-related...
Posted by | February 18, 2012
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...
Posted by | February 18, 2012
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...
Posted by | February 14, 2012
This article was originally published in Newsline's October 2009 issue Breast cancer is considered to be a curable form of cancer but only if it is detected early. However, in...
Posted by | February 9, 2012
Portrait of Dishonour By Farieha Aziz 27 JANUARY 2011 Niilofur Farrukh. Photo: Jamal Ashiqain “No Honour in Killing: Making Visible Buried Truth,” a show intended to raise social awareness through...
Posted by | February 9, 2012
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=OkQvlMlR6FI Jehan Ara speaks with Samaa regarding cyber harassment & VAW
Posted by | February 5, 2012
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...
Posted by | February 5, 2012
This article was originally published on the Newsline blog on April 28, 2011 With the arrival of the acquitted men back in the village, Mukhtar Mai is now fearful for...
Posted by | February 5, 2012
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...
