Journeys to Democracy

Articles

• Shutting down online #fakenews factories

    
  18 January, by beenasarwar
  Got this email and image from Avaaz, subject line, “We’ve been hijacked”, that feels too important not to share. Here’s my biggest takeaway from it: During Brazil’s election, Avaaz ran an experiment — just six people were given basic training to investigate the propaganda networks, and they shut down (...)

• A space of one’s own

   
  16 January, by beenasarwar
  “Your walks are such a contrast to the events in Gujranwala in response to the women’s marathon,” wrote Saneeya Hussain in response to my Personal Political column published in The News on Sunday on 3 April 2005. “I keep thinking Pakistan shd change its name to Absurdistan or some such thing”. (...)

• Modern day slavery: Janitorial workers in Pakistan

    
  11 January, by beenasarwar
  Email from Naeem Sadiq in Karachi, with this note: Modern-day- slavery (You may like to write to CM Sindh on this issue) January 11, 2019 Mr. Imran Khan, Prime Minister of Pakistan Abolish the cruelest form of modern-day- slavery, child labour and exploitation being practiced at Cantonment (...)

• “It is the values and the teachers that make TCF what it is”

     
  10 December 2018, by beenasarwar
  Education isn’t just about bricks and mortar… I hadn’t planned to write this report but the story I heard was so inspirational, and the overall event so well done, that I just had to. Shoutout to TCF Boston, The Citizens Foundation and all the wonderful volunteers. My report in The News on Sunday, (...)

• Good news: Shahidul Alam walks free after over 100 days in Dhaka prison

    
  20 November 2018, by beenasarwar
  Press statement from the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative and South Asia Media Defenders Network Dhaka, November 20– After day-long wrangles today between his lawyers and jail authorities in Dhaka over purported “discrepancy” in the prison’s address, internationally acclaimed Bangladeshi (...)

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