Press Release: Legal Rights and Responses in England and Wales for Stranded Spouses in Pakistan
Thursday, 4th June 2020: Women in Law Initiative Pakistan in association with BETI organised an online session on the legal rights and responses in England and Wales to stranded spouses in Pakistan. The session was led by Barristers Semaab Shaikh and Susie Sanders from Broadway House Chambers, UK. Barrister Semaab opened the session with a definition of a ‘abandonment’ as laid down in the Practice Direction 12 J of Family Procedure Rules 2010 and highlighted the gendered aspect of the definition explaining that it only applies in the case where a husband who is a UK national abandons his foreign national wife in order to prevent her from asserting residential or matrimonial rights in the UK. She also highlighted that the spouses most vulnerable to abandonment are those who have suffered some form of domestic abuse and retention of their passport and other documents by their in-laws or husband. These…
Press Release: Piracy and The Writing Industry
Thursday, 23rd April 2020: On the World Book and Copyright Day 2020, celebrated by UNESCO on the 23rd of April annually, the Lahore Education and Research Network (LEARN) and The Writing Institute jointly organized an online session on ‘Piracy and the Writing Industry’. This session also marked the one year celebration of #RethinkingWriting as an industry – an initiative by LEARN to promote authors, and support writers, publishers and other agents involved in the literary process via creating awareness around their labour and highlighting their pressing and collective needs as an industry to secure their rights. It further aimed to create awareness around writing as an industry at a macro level, so that writing as a craft can be rethought of as a career path for those who wish to pursue this professionally. The initiative endeavoured to create awareness around need for creating an enabling environment and for developing the…
A Short Online Session on Piracy and The Writing Industry
To mark the 1 year celebration of our #RethinkingWriting initiative, Lahore Education and Research Network is jointly hosting a short online session on 'PIRACY & THE WRITING INDUSTRY' along with The Writing Institute tomorrow from 3:30 to 4:10 pm. Panelists include: 1. Faiqa Mansab (Author) 2. Mehr F Hussayn (Author/Editor) 3. Sara Naveed (Author) 4. Awais Khan (Author/Founder - The Writing Institute 5. Bilal Zahoor (Folio Books/Publisher) 6. Nida Usman (Moderator) Discussion Points: 1. The state of piracy in Pakistan and its implications on the business/authors 2. What steps are needed to address the issue of Piracy and who has the responsibility for this? 3. Right to Access vs IP Rights - case for reviving public libraries? 4. Book bans, piracy and hostile policies How to Join the Meeting? Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/94566266269 Meeting ID: 945 6626 6269
Celebrating 1 Year of #RethinkingWriting Initiative
A year ago we at Lahore Education & Research Network - LEARN started to work on #rethinkingwriting as an industry with Olomopolo Media in order to draw attention to the scope and potential of investing in this craft and what it can do for Pakistan in terms of taking its stories out there to the world. One year on, we can truly say that the authors in this country and those supporting them and the publishers and other literary folks have all contributed towards realization of this very thought and we have seen a lot of interesting developments taking shape in Pakistan as regards writing; be it in shape of literary festivals and awards such as the zeenat haroon award or the work of many of our authors being published in the region and abroad or be it Awais Khan's (author of 'In the Company of Strangers and Founder of…
‘The Why’ Films Festival 2020
We are launching inaugurating 'The Why Films Festival 2020' at Olomopolo on Sunday 26th January 2020 from 3 to 5 pm. THE WHY FOUNDATION is a charitable organization that supports sustainable development by securing free access to reliable information for millions of people around the world. They produce and distribute documentaries & multimedia content about human rights, democracy, justice and equality. Their documentaries are used in schools, community centres, public cinemas and brought to citizens at large through their growing network of 70+ public service television stations in 200 countries and territories. As their licensed partners, LEARN will be showcasing 4 of their short films each based on women, gender equality and related human rights issues. Each film is under 3 minutes and leaves the viewers with thought provoking material. The screenings will be followed by thematic discussions based on each film in a local context. The themes we have…
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