Separated by borders, united through stories of online abuse
Protest in Dhaka against gender-based online violence. Photo by S.K Enamul Haque
For the first time, South Asian media organisations The Daily Star in Bangladesh, The Week magazine in India, Dawn in Pakistan and Republica in Nepal are coming together to report about the killings, attacks, harassment, and intimidation of journalists in the respective countries. It is the first such collaboration by media outlets in the region.
Bangladesh: Does Digital Security Act actually protect women?
By Zyma Islam
It is impossible in all probability to find a woman who has not been sexually harassed online, but try locating one who has sought legal recourse for it under the Digital Security Act (DSA), and it is akin to finding a needle in a haystack.
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Backstory: The Kashmir Model to Discipline Indian Media
A fortnightly column from The Wire s public editor.
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Rights13/Feb/2021
âIf democracy is to be replenished in the coming decades, it is up to us to rekindle the sense of outrage and loss over what is being taken from usâ¦What is at stake here is the human expectation of sovereignty over oneâs own life and authorship of oneâs own experience.â
~ Shoshana Zuboff,
The Age Of Surveillance Capitalism
What is striking about recent developments in India is the manner in which the media, both legacy and social, have become entangled with the politics of the day. In fact, they have become the site upon which politics plays out.