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Take This Quiz To Find Out About Rape Culture In Pakistan

The term rape culture was first introduced by an American feminist, Noreen Connell. She and her fellow, Cassandra Wilson, a New York Feminist, wrote the book Rape: A first sourcebook for women in 1974. Rape culture is defined as rape and other sexual violence that are normalized and viewed as inevitable by society and by […]

A Platform Unlike Any: The Minorities’ Youth learning the Art of Digital Storytelling

Get Your Placards Ready, Aurat March Is Back Again

Aurat March – two words which definitely created a jolt in the online community of Pakistan. Women last year joined efforts to march in the cities of Lahore, Islamabad, and Karachi. After several years, women witnessed a movement for themselves as a result of a binding sisterhood. While much of the focus last year was […]

A Platform Unlike Any: The Minorities’ Youth learning the Art of Digital Storytelling

It Is National Women’s Day And Here’s Why We Celebrate It

Have you ever heard of the National Women’s Day in Pakistan? No? It’s okay. February 12 was declared National Women’s Day by former Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani in 2012. This was done to commemorate the efforts of women against the Zia regime. On this day in 1983, several women congregated at the Lahore High […]

A Platform Unlike Any: The Minorities’ Youth learning the Art of Digital Storytelling