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Luavut Zahid

KNFSlVDA 400x400Luavut Zahid is a journalist, editor and researcher specialising in disasters, resilience, climate change, and crisis management.

She has served as Publishing Editor of the Crisis Response Journal since 2022, overseeing editorial strategy for one of the world's leading publications focused on emergencies, resilience, business continuity, and disaster response. Through her work, she collaborates with practitioners, policymakers, academics, and responders from around the world to explore the challenges facing communities before, during, and after crises.

She leads the publication, including commissioning, partnerships, and content development across its print and digital platforms. Prior to this role, she was the publication's South Asia Correspondent, having joined as Pakistan Correspondent in 2013.

A committed advocate for the next generation of media professionals, she has mentored and supported early-career journalists throughout her career, with a particular focus on women entering the field.

Luavut also co-founded the Khabaristan Times, Pakistan's first news satire platform. The outlet provided critical commentary on social and political issues and ran from 2014 to 2017 before being blocked by the Pakistani government as part of a broader crackdown on online expression and dissent.

Alongside her journalism, Luavut has worked extensively in media development and advocacy. She served as Global Co-ordinator for the New York-based Coalition for Women in Journalism, where she supported journalists and advanced press freedom initiatives worldwide. Luavut has authored and contributed to research, reports, and practical guides on media freedom, digital security, gender, and journalism, including publications for the Coalition for Women in Journalism and the Digital Rights Foundation.

Her writing and research focus on disasters, climate change, human rights, media freedom, and women's issues. She is an alumna of the FCDO Chevening South Asian Journalism Programme and regularly contributes to discussions on crisis communication, resilience, and the role of media in complex emergencies.

Luavut can be found on X at @luavut and can be reached at luavut[@]crisis-response.com.

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The longest hour – Afghanistan’s refugee question takes centre stage 
The longest hour – Afghanistan’s refugee question takes centre stage 
Luavut Zahid, CRJ’s Pakistan correspondent, takes an in-depth look at the implications for those fleeing Afghanistan
Count every child: Finding and registering Pakistan's invisible children 
Count every child: Finding and registering Pakistan's invisible children 
Luavut Zahid, our Pakistan Correspondent and Blog Editor, commissioned this piece because: “Pakistan has a real problem in terms of child protection mechanisms. Child registration is a large part of how a child can fall through the cracks and not get acce
Long term woes of displaced Afghans in Pakistan 
Long term woes of displaced Afghans in Pakistan 
As reported in our CRJ blog of August 2015, the authorities in Pakistan’s Capital of Islamabad have begun a drive against 42 slum areas in the city, writes Luavut Zahid. Here, she looks at the harsh conditions experienced by Afghan refugees who live in th
Pakistan: The Road to COP21 
Pakistan: The Road to COP21 
Pakistan Correspondent and Blog Editor Luavut Zahid says that the country needs to find an effective and sustainable path, leading towards increasing the resilience and adaptive capacity of communities and natural systems, as well as contributing to globa
Music and sports help children recover from Nepal quake 
Music and sports help children recover from Nepal quake 
CRJ’s Pakistan Correspondent and Blog Editor Luavut Zahid commissioned this piece after a trip to Nepal where she observed first hand damage caused by this year’s earthquake. The author, Sana Jamal, looks at an important aspect of rehabilitation after an
Militancy in Swat: How lack of social justice fuelled the Taliban in Pakistan's North 
Militancy in Swat: How lack of social justice fuelled the Taliban in Pakistan's North 
I commissioned this piece by Hurmit Ali Shah because it helps give a better shape to understanding what really happened in Swat, how a place that was known for its beauty was turned into a chaotic hotbed of terrorist activity. Swat helps teach Pakistan ma
The poor struggle in post-earthquake Nepal 
The poor struggle in post-earthquake Nepal 
Luavut Zahid is on assignment in Nepal; here, she reports on how the poorer citizens of Nepal are struggling to get back on their feet after the earthquake earlier this year.
Infant mortality in Pakistan 
Infant mortality in Pakistan 
The reason for commissioning this piece was simple, writes Luavut Zahid, Editor of our Pakistan blog. Pakistan does not have a favourable track record of taking care of its children.
Rendered homeless by slum clearance in Pakistan: A crisis in the making? 
Rendered homeless by slum clearance in Pakistan: A crisis in the making? 
Pakistan already has an abundant supply of refugees and temporarily displaced people, so why it would chose to add to those numbers through its own actions is confusing to say the least, says Luavut Zahid. Here, she investigates the controversial slum cle
Healthcare facilities in Pakistan: A crisis in numbers 
Healthcare facilities in Pakistan: A crisis in numbers 
Access to healthcare is a problem that seems to make itself obvious every few weeks in Pakistan, says Luavut Zahid, who has commissioned this blog. People in urban centres often complain of the quality of healthcare and facilities available, and the situa
Cultural insensitivity in handling of IDPs 
Cultural insensitivity in handling of IDPs 
In this regular blog, researched and commissioned by CRJ’s Pakistan correspondent Luavut Zahid, Hurmat Ali Shah – a freelance columnist and PhD candidate – looks at the issues facing Internally Displaced Persons in Pakistan.
What kept women from voting in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa? 
What kept women from voting in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa? 
The disaster risk reduction community is increasingly emphasising the vital need to include marginalised - and the most vulnerable - groups so as to help build greater resilience, while other groups are looking to the role of women to help counter violent
Internally displaced persons still struggling five years after Pakistan floods 
Internally displaced persons still struggling five years after Pakistan floods 
In this regular blog, researched and commissioned by CRJ’s Pakistan correspondent Luavut Zahid, freelance environmental writer Amar Guriro describes the continued plight of former agricultural workers displaced by Pakistan’s ‘Super Flood’ of 2010.
Pakistan: Unfulfilled promises... Baloch earthquake victims still await help 
Pakistan: Unfulfilled promises... Baloch earthquake victims still await help 
Seventeen months after an earthquake devastated the district of Awaran in Balochistan, promises of reconstruction and assistance appear to have floundered, writes Adnan Aamir. And this is dangerous because the area is already epitomised by mistrust of the
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