Tireless trolls and vexatious litigants on April 28, 2021The challenges faced by the Aurat March appear relentless. First, there is the constant demonising of the organisers coupled with unsubstantiated ‘foreign agent’ claims. Then there are the tedious patriarchal flag-bearers. Those self-appointed guardians of our moral fibre who — instead of being appalled by prevailing sexual violence, exploitation and abuse of children and other […]
Stunting the curve, domestic violence in lockdown on May 1, 2020Often when the issue of domestic violence is discussed in a public forum it is trotted out as simply numbers, shocking statistics regarding abuses and fatalities. What is however absent is an understanding of the act of coming forward to make a report. When one is already a victim of domestic violence even the act […]