CYBER HARASSMENT IN FEMALE

Afia Ishaq(19653)
Zarghona zubair()
Javeria jameel()
 01
Harassment

02 Cyber Harassment

CONTENT 03
Types of Cyber Harassment

04 Scenarios of Cyber
Harassment

05
Laws
HARASSMENT
• Harassment is a form of discrimination. It includes any
unwanted physical or verbal behavior that offends or humiliates
you.
Harassment occurs when someone
• jokes or threaten about your race, religion, sex, age, disability.
• unwelcome physical contact with you, such as touching, patting,
or pinching.
 HARASSMENT EXAMPLE

• MAKING FUN OF HIJAB

• Comments about physical appearance
• Threatens your safety
• Rubs your Shoulder/or any part
ROUGHLY FOUR-IN-
TEN AMERICANS
HAVE PERSONALLY
EXPERIENCED
ONLINE
HARASSMENT
CYBER
HARASSMENT
Harassment by means of email,
text (or online) messages or the
internet.
• Unsolicited posts and
comments on Social Media
• Emails
• Texts
• Graphic images and posts
directed at the victim
• Instant messaging
 DIFFERENT TYPES OF CYBER HARASSMENT
• Hate Speech
• Pornographic content
• Self harm
• Intellectual property protection
• Identity theft
• Cyber Bullying
• Hacking
• Computer viruses
 40% OF WOMEN FACE HARASSMENT ON
INTERNET, SAYS PAKISTAN’S FIRST ONLINE
VIOLENCE STUDY.
• report by the Digital Rights Foundation (DRF)
• Facebook and WhatsApp were “at the heart of many cases of harassment”
• 72% of women in the country has no awareness about the cyber crime laws.
• 79% of the respondents use technological devices regularly,.
• 48% own smartphones.
• 67% use Facebook regularly. Of the total participants, 25% said they were aware of the terms and
conditions of different social media sites.
• 51% do not understand the terms and conditions completely.
• 35%, little personal information.
• 6% said that a lot about them is available on the internet.
• Of the total respondents, 70% of the women said they are afraid of putting up their own photos online.
LAHORE HAS THE HIGHEST
RATE OF CYBER HARASSMENT
CASES IN PAKISTAN [REPORT]

• Pakistan’s first Cyber Harassment Helpline

became operational in December last year
and it has released its first annual report.
• O8OO-39393

• 9am till 5pm, Monday to Friday.

• helpdesk@digitalrightsfoundation.pk.
STATISTICS OF REPORT
DIFFERENT CASE OF CYBER BULLYING
 HARASSMENT COMPLAINT
• According to the data available with Daily Times,
Pakistan’s first harassment helpline has received around
763 complaints made in the form of phone calls, emails
and Facebook messages from December 1, 2016 to May
31, 2017.
• Complaints were registered regarding unsolicited
messages, hacked accounts or devices, fake profile,
blackmailing, non-consensual usage of information, online
stalking, gender-based bullying, financial frauds, photo-
shopped pictures and others.
• Facebook and whatsapp are reported common tool for
cyber harassement.
• It is not necessary that men are only harasses women but
women also harass women and women also harass men.
 MEGAN MEIER CASE:
• Tina Meier founded the nonprofit Megan Meier Foundation. in honor of Tina’s 13-year-old daughter
who hanged herself in a bedroom closet in October 2006. Megan struggled with attention deficit
disorder and depression in addition to issues with her weight. About five weeks before her death, a
16-year-old boy named Josh Evans asked Megan to be friends on the social networking website
Myspace. The two began communicating online regularly, although they never met in person or
spoke on the phone. “Megan had a lifelong struggle with weight and self-esteem,” Tina said on the
Foundation website. “And now she finally had a boy who she thought really thought she was pretty.”
• In mid-October, Josh began saying he didn’t want to be friends anymore, and the messages became
more cruel on October 16, 2006, when Josh concluded by telling Megan, “The world would be a
better place without you.” The cyberbullying escalated when additional classmates and friends on
Myspace began writing disturbing messages and bulletins. Tina said on the Foundation website that
it was about 20 minutes after Megan went to her room after leaving the computer that the mother
found her daughter had hanged herself in her bedroom closet. Megan died the following day, three
weeks before what would have been her 14th birthday. According to the Associated Press, it was later
that fall when a neighbor informed Megan’s parents that Josh was not a real person. Instead, the
account was created by another neighbor, Lori Drew, her 18-year-old temporary employee Ashley
Grills, and Drew’s teenage daughter, who used to be friends with Megan. One year later, the case
began receiving national attention.
 NAILA RIND SUICIDE CASE
• Rind’s body was found hanging from the ceiling fan of her room in SU’s Marvi Hostel in
Jamshoro on January 1, 2017. She was a final-year student of the Sindhi department.
• Anis Khaskheli, a lecturer at a school in Jamshoro, was arrested in connection with the
case on the basis of the victim's cellphone records. He later received bail in the case. The
judge observed that the accused had initially said that he did not share any photographs
with Rind.
• However, "during course of his deposition when he [Khaskheli] was shown his and Naila’s
photographs, he had to admit the fact and retracted his earlier statement", the judge said.
• He admitted that photos had been exchanged, but claimed the fact had no connection with
her death, the judge added.
• Accused Abdul Wahab from Layyah district is facing trial under the Anti-Terrorism Act for
blackmailing and harassing lady doctors.He was arrested in April 2015 by the law
enforcement agencies from Narran after the scam surfaced that nearly 200 women,
including lady doctors and nurses of some government teaching hospitals of Lahore, had
been harassed or blackmailed. Gowalmandi police had registered the caseMost of his
victims were house officers and postgraduate trainees from King Edward Medical
University, Fatima Jinnah Medical University and Children Hospital, Lahore. According to
initial investigations, the accused used to trap lady doctors by
having access to their mobile phone chats/pictures, whatsapp chats, viber contacts and
facebook accounts using different technologies. The PFSA which identified 428, 322
graphics/pictures during analysis of the laptop, categorically said many photos were
edited or tempered with. It said the charge of blackmailing the victims was also proved
during analysis. A total of 2,454 multimedia files were identified”, the report stated adding
that of them 266 audio call recordings were also found.
 HAILEE LAMBERTH
• Another 13-year-old took her life due to cyberbullying. She’s
suffered from epilepsy and her classmates taunted her for that.
This in-school bullying continued through online platforms and
forums. They’d often tell herself to kill herself because of her
condition.
• At one point, a classmate left her a voicemail saying “I hope you
died.” Hailee couldn’t take the bullying anymore and killed
herself.
 WAYS TO PREVENT CYBER HARASSMENT
• Message the person telling them to stop and then report them to the authorities.

• Privatise your accounts

• Never give out personal information as a status update or in a chat group.

• Don’t add people to your friend’s list if you are unsure of who they are.

• Beware of fake accounts.

• Don’t initiate contact with people who don’t know you.

• Block the bully

• Change your email and passwords to keep your information secure