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The National Commission on the Status of Women Act (2012) The National Commission for Human Rights Act (2012) Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2018; The Dowry and Bridal Gifts Act; The Women, Violence and Jirgas Act; Marriage in the Quran; Women Agriculture Bill 2019 [5] Sindh Women Agriculture Workers Act (SWAWA) of 2019 passed ...
The Protection of Journalists Act, of 2014 allows a journalist or media industry to cover any story and brought it to the audiences without impacting the national security of the country. To protect the intellectual, moral, and fundamental rights of the citizens, the government has taken several countermeasures to combat circulating fake news ...
In a victory for social media sites, the justices declined Thursday to rule on a challenge to Section 230, which protects websites from being sued over its users' posts.
Any change to Section 230 is likely to have ripple effects on online speech around the globe. “The rest of the world is cracking down on the internet even faster than the U.S.,” Goldman said.
Her comments are a reminder that this free-speech protection is far from safe.
In July 2020, NCSW and UN women Pakistan launched Young Women in Pakistan: Status Report 2020 according to which 29% of young married women face controlling behaviors by husbands, 15% of them have experienced physical violence and 4% have exposed to sexual violence by anyone other than spouse, while 14% of currently married women have faced ...
New bipartisan legislation would sunset Section 230 after next year.
Pakistan's score was 61 on a scale from 1 (most free) to 100 (least free), which earned a status of "not free". [3] Reporters Without Borders put Pakistan 145 out of the 180 countries ranked in its 2020 Press Freedom Index. [2] A previous report by RSF in 2010 named Pakistan as one of "ten countries where it is not good to be a journalist". It ...