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ICFRC: Is the Transgression Worth It?

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Journalist Sanam Maher spent several years investigating the murder of Pakistan's first social media celebrity, Qandeel Baloch. Questions arising from Maher's investigation - What kind of woman is the country's culture willing to tolerate? And how did Qandeel encourage a generation of Pakistani women to inhabit the same online spaces she was viciously trolled in - broaden into larger questions of how sex is being talked about, and, as importantly, how it isn't.

For more information on the Foreign Relations Council visit their website at www.icfrc.org.

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