Zainab Durrani
Zainab Durrani is a lawyer by education and a digital rights activist by profession, based in Pakistan. She manages the Data Privacy portfolio at Digital Rights Foundation and also conducts extensive research on the overlap of tech, gender and health.
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Is AI taking this too far?
Contrary to popular belief, AI isn't a new technology. It has, in fact, been in development since the 1950s. Zainab Durrani explores whether its commercialisation, as we know it today, has taken the technology, and its implications for humans and the environment, too far.
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The Rise of Whack-A-Mole Governance in Internet Regulation
Governments around the world are clamping down on citizens' fundamental rights, with increased focus on civil liberties in digital spaces. Zainab Durrani highlights how various policy measures taken my governments in South Asia impact universally recognised rights.
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Systematic Subjugation: An Interconnected View of Violence Across The World
The violence that the world is witnessing right now across continents is not happening in a vacuum, rather all of them are connected and share the same backdrop of imperialism and colonialism. Zainab Durrani discusses these trends in a few instances of unending human rights violations.
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Identity Crisis: Roadblocks in Women's Access to Basic ID Documentation in Pakistan
Women make up half the population of Pakistan, and yet they're routinely denied access to identification documents based on patriarchal and archaic policies that reject any sense of autonomy over their personhood independent of men around them. Zainab Durrani speaks to some of the women who were subjected to these policies.
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Digital Waves of Hate: The Struggle Continues for Pakistan’s Transgender Community
The transgender community in Pakistan has constantly been subjected to persecution and violence hindering their participation in 'normal' life. This violence has increasingly been mirrored into digital world leading to plethora of hashtag campaigns initiated to damage the struggles of the community.
