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Zoya Anwer

Zoya Anwer is a freelance multimedia journalist who has been reporting on gender and religious minorities and their spatial relationships with their surroundings among other subjects. She is an IVLP fellow alongside Reham Al-Farra, Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue and a Women Deliver Conference and Sangat fellow since 2017.

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Navigating Identities: Experiencing Online Violence As A Shia Woman in Pakistan

Posted Sat 29 Oct 2022 - 17:35 | 1,187 views

Shia Muslims are constantly at risk of being targeted with violence on and offline for their religious belief. And with online gender-based violence routinely a problem, when Shia women and queer folks go online, they find themselves at risk of being targeted with abuse from multiple fronts as their two identities combine.