Asma Shirazi
Asma Shirazi is a Pakistani journalist and political commentator who hosts a primetime current-affairs show on Aaj News. Shirazi is the first Pakistani journalist to win the prestigious Peter Mackler Award for Courageous and Ethical Journalism on 23 October 2014. The award is given annually to a single journalist who has demonstrated a great commitment to unbiased reporting and to upholding media freedoms.
Friday 5th March
Justice, not #hashtags: Navigating Violence Against Women and its Digital Reflection
The Opening Panel explores why women are often at the wrong end of policy, social and institutional choices. The panel looks at the incidence of GBV and the impact of violent incidents like the one at Minar e Pakistan, the Noor Mukhaddam case and others and their impact on women’s psyche. It will also touch upon the response of tech giants and how algorithms don’t recognise violence in our context or in our local languages. It also explores how hashtags are for both victims of violence and women activists, who then become targets of digital violence themselves and how violence has impacted Pakistani women at a visceral, physiological and psychological level.