VC Faculty Lounge, Academic Block (first floor), LUMS
Moderator: Dr. Rabia Kamal (LUMS)
Cyber-crime, online stalking, deep fakes, doxxing, social media harassment—these are some of the new kinds of abuse that make up and feed into gender-based violence in today’s digital world. In this panel, our discussants, Moneeza Hashmi (Kashf Foundation), Hyra Basit (Digital Rights Foundation), and Ramma Shahid (Chayn), addressed the impact of digitality and tech (focusing on social media and AI) on GBV in Pakistan, discussing a range of concerns from policymaking and developing feminist resources, the healing of survivors and finding effective means to have difficult conversations around these issues. While these conversations addressed the larger global context, the panelists highlighted what recent South Asian scholarship has shown—how digital visibility has exacerbated honor, faith and caste-related surveillance, with social media becoming a new trigger for gender-based violence.
MEDIA GALLERY
