LAHORE- Female students at the Lahore University of Management Sciences staged a protest against a Facebook group, of mostly men, that shared content targeting women at the university with derogatory language, images, commentary and obscenity. Student took screenshots of the content and shared it to various social media platforms.
People were appalled by what they saw and praised the women for standing up.
https://twitter.com/Shafinated/status/1114355192374484992
https://twitter.com/dramallama212/status/1115732278196543488
https://twitter.com/MahatmaaGanji/status/1115718492479733761
More than 200 students, mostly women, sat outside the office to register their protest and demand action to be taken against the misogyny that prevails on campus/online, and Twitter again applauded them for not giving up.
https://twitter.com/zainabmsheikh/status/1115198176666038272
https://twitter.com/baeresham/status/1115227423203909632
https://twitter.com/ahidamzair/status/1115493340768821249
This incident also prompted one woman to share her on-campus harassment story to demonstrate that this disturbing behaviour goes unnoticed and undisciplined in many universities.
https://twitter.com/achayaarbas/status/1114446342296936449
https://twitter.com/achayaarbas/status/1114446950055727104
This is not the first time the campus has become ensnared in controversy on women’s rights. The university met with strong opposition when it started its first feminist club, FemSoc. And later, when a harassment case was reported against one of the law professors five years ago a similar reaction erupted. Following this case, LUMS devised its sexual harassment policy, however it is unclear if it covers online behaviours. Pakistan’s cybercrime law and the HEC’s harassment policy, however, do.
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