{"id":14896,"date":"2025-12-03T09:26:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T09:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/2025\/12\/03\/ending-digital-violence-women\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T09:26:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T09:26:00","slug":"ending-digital-violence-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/2025\/12\/03\/ending-digital-violence-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Ending Digital Violence Against Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A roundtable at the University of Management and Technology Lahore convened experts and officials to address digital violence against women and girls. The initiative by human rights and youth activist <strong>Ahsan Kamray<\/strong> brought District Women Protection Officer Multan <strong>Muneeza Manzoor Butt<\/strong> as a guest speaker to lead a focused discussion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Muneeza Manzoor Butt<\/strong> shared invaluable insights and helped attendees understand the mechanisms needed to protect women and girls in the digital sphere. The conversation explored reporting pathways, institutional coordination and community awareness as essential elements in responding to digital violence.<\/p>\n<p>The discussion was described as impactful and empowering, with participation and support from government and international partners including the Government of Punjab Social Welfare Special Education and Women Empowerment Department, representatives from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, UNFPA Pakistan, UNESCO, UNDP and UN Women Pakistan. Prominent attendees included <strong>Ahsan Kamray<\/strong> and public figure <strong>Hina Parvez Butt<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Speakers highlighted the need for closer collaboration between universities, provincial departments and multilateral agencies to build practical protections and promote digital safety. Emphasis was placed on sustained awareness campaigns, stronger institutional responses and survivor support to curb online harms.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers noted that the roundtable outcomes will feed into ongoing initiatives across provinces, encouraging further dialogue and coordinated action to prevent digital violence and safeguard women and girls in Pakistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roundtable at UMT Lahore tackles digital violence with experts and policymakers to strengthen protections for women and girls across Pakistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":14895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}