On 12th February 1983, hundreds of women gathered at The Mall, a major road at the heart of Lahore, Pakistan. In response to a call from the Women’s Action Forum, the women had gathered with the intention of marching to the Lahore High Court to protest the proposed ‘Law of Evidence.’ The latest in a series of laws passed by Gen Ziaul Haq's regime since the military takeover in 1977, the ‘Law of Evidence’ required two women to give evidence to contest that of one man.
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Web comics are an art form that has helped to explain the protests as they unfold. The movement began in the northeast of India, but has spread as many see the legislation as an attack on the country’s secular identity.
A protester in Chile wears a hand embroidered mask on the streets of Santiago. With one eye covered, the mask references the bandaged eyes that have become a common sight.
Read MorePhotographer Tommy Fung @surrealhk documents life in Hong Kong and digitally manipulates the images. Here he blows up the sticky notes that have come to cover subway tunnels, bridges, and walkways in ‘Lennon Walls’ all over the city.
Read MoreProtestors have returned to the streets en masse in Lebanon as the Lebanese lira looses value and a new government fails to form.
A gathering point has been Beirut’s Martyrs’ Square with its iconic statue. Erected to remember six Lebanese nationalists killed by Ottoman occupiers in 1916, the monument has a long history.
Read More“Of the 51 fortified boundaries built between countries since the end of World War II”, Uri Friedman writes in his article ‘A World of Walls’, “around half were constructed between 2000 and 2014.” This is an astonishing fact, not only because of the increasing rate at which walls are being constructed, but because ‘a world of walls’ is often consigned to the distant past.
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