Pakistani lawyer and Internet activist
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Lilian Olivia Orero is an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya, award-winning writer and champion of women's digital rights. She is the founder of the community-based organisation SafeOnlineWomen-Kenya. Lilian Olivia recently served as the youngest person on a UN led programme aimed at ending violence against women and girls.Nighat Dad is a Pakistani lawyer and founder of Digital Rights Foundation, a charity organisation focused on cyber harassment, data protection and free speech online in Pakistan and South Asia. As a feminist and pioneer for women's rights activism in Pakistan, Nighat has raised awareness of Pakistani patriarchy.Datshiane Navanayagam speaks to Lilian and Nighat about the scale of harassment women face on the internet.Producer: Emily Naylor(Image: (L) Lilian Olivia Orero, credit Daniel Samwel. (R) Nighat Dad, courtesy of Nighat Dad)
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A little more than a year ago, in the first article announcing the release of the Facebook Files, the documents brought out of the company by whistleblower Frances Haugen, the Wall Street Journal's Jeff Horwitz reported on Cross Check, a Facebook system that “exempted high-profile users from some or all” of the platform's rules. The program shields millions of elites from normal content moderation enforcement. While the existence of such a program was known, its scale was and perhaps still is shocking.Following the Journal's reporting and subsequent concern in the public, Facebook (now Meta) President of Global Affairs Nick Clegg announced the company would request a policy advisory opinion from its independent Oversight Board. 14 months later, the Oversight Board has completed its review and published its opinion. To talk more about the opinion, the Cross Check system and the problem of content moderation more generally, I'm joined with one member of the Oversight Board, Nighat Dad, a lawyer from Pakistan and founder of the Digital Rights Foundation; and one outside observer who answered the board's call for opinions about the Cross Check system, R Street Institute senior fellow and University of Pennsylvania Annenberg Public Policy Center distinguished research fellow Chris Riley.
In the fourth episode of the Changing the Face of Politics podcast series, Nighat Dad, Executive Director of the Digital Rights Foundation in Pakistan, interviews Mimoza Kusari-Lila, Member of Kosovo Parliament and former Deputy Prime Minister of Kosovo, about her journey to political leadership and the obstacles she faced and overcame along the way.
In the third episode of the Changing the Face of Politics podcast series, Michelle Bachelet, former President of Chile and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, speaks with Nighat Dad, Executive Director of the Digital Rights Foundation in Pakistan, about the opportunities and barriers of the digital space for politically-active women, and her experience as an activist fighting for women's rights in Pakistan.
Nighat Dad's trip from Pakistan to the United States was also your first time on an airplane. This led to some, well, awkward situations. But ss a lawyer and digital rights activist, she paved the way for thousands of girls in Pakistan, including Malala, by educating them on safe cyber behavior. Through the Cyber Harassment Help Line, the first of its kind in Pakistan, Nighat fights for women's access to technology and promotes women's rights despite numerous challenges and threats. Note: This episode was produced before the global COVID-19 pandemic. We have temporarily paused conducting new 22.33 interviews, but will continue to air curated episodes into the foreseeable future.
The global conversation around sexual violence has created the space to engage on vital issues of justice, equality and fairness. The manifestations of the #metoo movement in Pakistan, such as Jami's allegations, often get entangled with other, concurrent but unrelated power dynamics. How do we engage with the issues? How do we fulfill our responsibility to protect? How do we avoid unfairness or libel? We asked the head of the Digital Rights Foundation, WEF Young Global Leader, and renowned activist Nighat Dad (pronounced Daad) for her help. This is the bilingual conversation that ensued. Digital Rights Foundation - https://digitalrightsfoundation.pk
This episode is in Urdu. Our founder, Hera Hussain sits down with two fellow Pakistanis - Nighat Dad, internationally celebrated activist and human rights defender and Kanwal Ahmed, a pioneer who is changing the entertainment industry's landscape with human stories. Kanwal Ahmed started the Soul Sisters Pakistan group 6 years ago which has given more than 189 000 women a safe space to be themselves and share their stories. After being selected by Facebook for their Community Leadership Programme (FCLP), Kanwal has been hosting her own talk show, Conversations with Kanwal. which features real-life stories of women, in their own words covering important issues such as domestic abuse, grief, colourism and child labour. Her videos have garnered millions of views online from across the world. Due to her work, hundreds of women reach out to Kanwal every day about their experiences of domestic abuse. Nighat Dad is a lawyer and the founder of Digital Rights Foundation which works to help Pakistani women fight against online harassment. She is a campaigner for online freedom and contributed to a law against acid attacks. She specializes in family law and cyber law and was named one of TIME magazine's next generation leaders. In 2016, she was awarded the Atlantic Council Digital Freedom Award and Dutch government's Human Rights Tulip award. She became TED Fellow in 2016 and spoke at the TED Global stage. Her Online Harassment helpline supports countless women in Pakistan every month. And in case you are new to us, here's a bit about us and Hera Hussain. Hera is the Founder of CHAYN - a global volunteer-run project crowdsourcing resources on the web to address gender-based violence. This all started from the original Chayn Pakistan (chaynpakistan.org). Chayn has reached more than 300 000 people through its resources which are designed with survivors of abuse. Hera was on the Forbes 30 Under 30 and MIT Technology Review’s Innovators Under 35 list. Here are some important links for help: Digital Rights Foundation: www.digitalrightsfoundation.pk Digital Rights Foundation Anti-Harassment helpline: Soul Sisters Pakistan: facebook.com/groups/soulsistersproject Conversations With Kanwal: facebook.com/ConversationswithKanwal Chayn Pakistan: chaynpakistan.org How to build your own domestic violence case without a lawyer: chayn.gitbook.io/how-to-build-a-domestic-abuse-case-without-a-lawye/ Do It Yourself Online Safety guide (Urdu, Pashto): chayn.co/safety You can follow Hera, Kanwal and Nighat on twitter: https://twitter.com/herahussain https://twitter.com/kanwalful https://twitter.com/nighatdad The podcast was recorded virtually as everyone was in a different part of the world (UK, Canada and Pakistan). Music by Diana Tso.
Nighat Dad, becaria de TED, estudia el acoso en línea, especialmente en lo referente a las culturas patriarcales como la de su pequeña aldea en Pakistán. Cuenta la historia de cómo estableció la primera línea telefónica de ayuda contra el acoso cibernético de Pakistán, que ofrece apoyo a las mujeres que se enfrentan a graves amenazas en línea. "El acceso seguro a Internet es acceso al conocimiento, y el conocimiento es libertad", dice. "Cuando lucho por los derechos digitales de una mujer, lucho por la igualdad."
A Bolsista TED Nighat Dad estuda assédio on-line, especialmente no que se refere a culturas patriarcais como a de sua pequena aldeia no Paquistão. Ela conta a história de como criou a primeira linha de apoio contra assédio cibernético do Paquistão, oferecendo ajuda a mulheres que enfrentam sérias ameaças on-line. "O acesso seguro à internet é o acesso ao conhecimento, e o conhecimento é liberdade", diz ela. "Quando luto pelos direitos digitais de uma mulher, estou lutando pela igualdade."
TED Fellow Nighat Dad studies online harassment, especially as it relates to patriarchal cultures like the one in her small village in Pakistan. She tells the story of how she set up Pakistan's first cyber harassment helpline, offering support to women who face serious threats online. "Safe access to the internet is access to knowledge, and knowledge is freedom," she says. "When I fight for a woman's digital rights, I am fighting for equality."
TED 펠로우인 니아트 다드는 사이버 폭력을 연구하며, 그중에서도 특히 그녀의 작은 고향 마을에 존재하던 파키스탄의 가부장적 문화와 관련된 현상들을 다룹니다. 그녀는 이번 강연에서 심각한 온라인 협박을 받은 여성들을 위한 파키스탄 최초 사이버폭력 상담 서비스를 구축한 과정을 이야기합니다. 그녀는 "안전하게 인터넷에 접근하는 것은 곧 지식에 접근하는 것이며, 지식은 곧 자유를 의미합니다. 여성의 디지털 권리에 대해 투쟁하는 것은 평등을 위한 투쟁인 것입니다." 라고 말합니다.
TED Fellow Nighat Dad erforscht Cyberbelästigung, besonders die Belästigung in patriarchalischen Kulturen, wie in ihrem kleinen Dorf in Pakistan. Sie erzählt, wie sie den ersten pakistanischen Notruf für Cyberbelästigung eingerichtet hat, welcher Frauen hilft, die online ernsthaften Bedrohungen ausgesetzt sind. "Sicherer Zugang zum Internet bedeutet Zugang zu Wissen und Wissen ist Freiheit", sagt sie. "Wenn ich für die digitalen Rechte der Frauen kämpfe, kämpfe ich für Gleichberechtigung."
Nighat Dad, qui est TED fellow, s'intéresse au cyber-harcèlement et en particulier au lien avec les cultures patriarcales comme celle de son petit village au Pakistan. Elle raconte comment elle a lancé le premier site pakistanais d'assistance téléphonique contre le cyber-harcèlement en vue d'offrir un soutien aux femmes confrontées à de graves menaces en ligne. "Un accès protégé à Internet est un accès à la connaissance, et la connaissance, c'est la liberté", dit-elle. "Quand je me bats pour les droits des femmes sur Internet, je me bats pour l'égalité."
Abir Ghattas, Nighat Dad, Erin Saltman, Andreas Proksch The digital transformation has created huge opportunities for civil society in developing countries to exercise their rights to freedom of expression and assembly, and to gain better access to education, health and information. By supporting digital skills, policies and technologies, development cooperation aims at strengthening citizen participation and inclusion across all sectors. With the growing role of the internet, however, governments in many partner countries are increasingly monitoring and restricting online expression. Digital attacks against human rights defenders have expanded dramatically; vaguely defined anti-terrorism legislation and spyware allow for targeted surveillance; trolls manipulate online content and conduct intimidating smear-campaigns. Activists are increasingly facing violence, arrest and charges for their social media activities. Against this backdrop of shrinking space and global backlash, access to secure communication and holistic strategies for an enabling environment for human rights defenders are crucial. The session will present experiences from human rights defenders in the Global South and discuss success stories and lessons learned from digital security and privacy initiatives. What does it need to make digital security trainings and tools sustainable? How do internet companies take over responsibility to protect human rights defenders? What kind of legal, technical, psychosocial and policy support do digital rights defenders need? How do international human rights mechanisms and development actors need to address the current threats? supported by BMZ
Abir Ghattas, Nighat Dad, Erin Saltman, Andreas Proksch The digital transformation has created huge opportunities for civil society in developing countries to exercise their rights to freedom of expression and assembly, and to gain better access to education, health and information. By supporting digital skills, policies and technologies, development cooperation aims at strengthening citizen participation and inclusion across all sectors. With the growing role of the internet, however, governments in many partner countries are increasingly monitoring and restricting online expression. Digital attacks against human rights defenders have expanded dramatically; vaguely defined anti-terrorism legislation and spyware allow for targeted surveillance; trolls manipulate online content and conduct intimidating smear-campaigns. Activists are increasingly facing violence, arrest and charges for their social media activities. Against this backdrop of shrinking space and global backlash, access to secure communication and holistic strategies for an enabling environment for human rights defenders are crucial. The session will present experiences from human rights defenders in the Global South and discuss success stories and lessons learned from digital security and privacy initiatives. What does it need to make digital security trainings and tools sustainable? How do internet companies take over responsibility to protect human rights defenders? What kind of legal, technical, psychosocial and policy support do digital rights defenders need? How do international human rights mechanisms and development actors need to address the current threats? supported by BMZ
Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society: Audio Fishbowl
Nighat Dad discusses the state of freedom of expression, privacy, and online harassment in the global south, with a particular focus on Pakistan, where she is based. Dad is the Executive Director of the Digital Rights Foundation (DRF), a nonprofit that seeks to protect the freedom and security of all people online, with a particular focus on women and human rights defenders. In late 2016, DRF launched a cyber harassment hotline, and Dad will present key findings from a recently released report [LINK: http://digitalrightsfoundation.pk/cyber-harassment-helpline-completes-its-four-months-of-operations/] on the first four months of its operation. The report affords up-to-the-moment insights on significant challenges facing internet users in Pakistan and throughout the region. About Nighat Nighat Dad is the Executive Director of Digital Rights Foundation, Pakistan. She is an accomplished lawyer and a human rights activist. Nighat is one of the pioneers who have been campaigning around access to open internet in Pakistan and globally. She has been actively campaigning and engaging at a policy level on issues focusing on Internet Freedom, Women and Technology, Digital Security, and Women’s empowerment. Nighat has been named in TIME's Next Generation Leaders List, and has won Atlantic Council Freedom of Expression Award, and also Human Rights Tulip Award for her work in digital rights and freedom. She is also an Affiliate at Berkman Klien Centre for the year 2016-2017 For more info on this event visit: https://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2017/luncheon/05/Dad