LAHORE: With her flashing rings, green-streaked hair and “Hack the patriarchy” laptop stickers, Nighat Dad is a digital warrior. Activists have denounced pervasive, sometimes deadly violence by men — usually male relatives — against women who break those taboos. WOMEN ARE SUFFERINGDad formed the Digital Rights Foundation, a think tank tackling digital rights through a gender lens, in 2012, winning her recognition as one of Time magazine’s next generation leaders in 2015 and a Human Rights Tulip award in 2016. She launched the cyber-harassment helpline that same year, funding it with the 100,000 euros ($108,000) in Tulip prize money. “She was a hero for me… she did what she wanted to do, and not every woman can do this in Pakistan,” Dad says.

Source: Pakistan Today March 02, 2020 15:45 UTC