How Pakistani women are taking the internet back | Nighat Dad
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🗓️ 17 May 2018
⏱️ 6 minutes
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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."
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| 0:00.0 | This TED Talk features digital rights activist Nagat Dad, recorded live at TED Global 2017. |
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| 0:43.8 | Imagine waking up to a stranger, sometimes multiple strangers. |
| 0:50.0 | Questioning your right to existence for something that you wrote online. |
| 0:56.0 | Waking up to a angry message, scared and worried for your safety. |
| 1:03.0 | Welcome to the world of cyber harassment. |
| 1:06.0 | The kind of harassment that women face in Pakistan is very serious |
| 1:10.0 | and leads to sometimes deadly outcomes. This kind of harassment that women face in Pakistan is very serious and leads to sometimes deadly outcomes. |
| 1:13.6 | This kind of harassment keeps women from accessing internet, essentially knowledge. |
| 1:19.6 | It's a form of oppression. |
| 1:22.6 | Pakistan is the sixth most populous country in the world, with 140 million people having access to mobile technologies |
| 1:31.3 | and 15% of internet penetration. |
| 1:35.3 | And this number doesn't seem to go down with the rise of new technologies. |
| 1:40.3 | Pakistan is also the birthplace of the youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yusuf Zay. |
| 1:49.0 | But that's just one aspect of Pakistan. Another aspect it is where the twisted concept of honor is linked to the woman and their bodies, |
| 2:03.5 | where men are allowed to disrespect women and even kill them sometimes in the name of so-called family honor. |
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