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Campaign Take Back The Tech! registered more than 100 cases of gender violence through ICT

By GenderIT.org for APC

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, 22 December 2011

The Take Back The Tech! campaign, run by APC WNSP, launched an interactive mapping platform which collected more than one hundred stories about gender violence online or through mobile phones. In this article by GenderIT.org, Sonia Randhawa outlines some of the tendencies that stand out when analizing the collected information.

Full article at http://www.genderit.org/articles/mapping-intersection-technology-and-gender-based-violence

(END/2011)

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