Tag: Digital Rights Foundation

Digital Rights Foundation launches legal portal ‘Ab Aur Nahin’

LAHORE: The Digital Rights Foundation (DRF) has launched a pro bono online portal for women seeking legal representation and psychological counselling in cases of harassment...

Pakistani women face most harassment on Facebook, WhatsApp: report

A report released by the Digital Rights Foundation (DRF) claims that complaints of online harassment by women in Pakistan are mostly in reference to...

Cases of WhatsApp hacking, blackmailing surge

LAHORE: As many as 2,302 complaints of online harassment, violence and bullying were received in last two years since the establishment of Cyber Harassment...

Consent of a woman

Aasma Rani, a third-year MBBS student at Abbottabad Medical College, was shot dead in her hometown of Kohat on Jan 29. She was shot thrice...

Punjab ranks first in online harassment cases: report

LAHORE: According to the Cyber Harassment Helpline’s one year report published by Digital Rights Foundation (DRF), Punjab has emerged as the region with the most number...

Pakistani telecoms’ murky policies put users’ privacy at risk: report

The Digital Rights Foundation (DRF) on Friday released Telecoms Privacy & Data Protection Policies in Pakistan, a study that focuses on the privacy policies...

Govt urged to address online harassment of female journalists, activists

If a woman’s picture is photoshopped in a way that is deemed offensive, the blame will always be hers and she will be perceived as someone having a ‘bad’ character.