Violence against women and ICT in Bosnia and Herzegovina: A tricky place between raising awareness and lobbying for laws

Our ambitious journey with our first Take Back the Tech! this year started on a really good note – media response.

For years now, the topic of violence against women that is happening through ICTs has not been “attractive” enough for our local media. Even with the rise of the number of mapped cases and educational trainings held, they simply did not seem to care enough to publish our case studies, much less, to do an interview on the topic. That was up until this July. Our first opening event was solely organized for representatives of media houses in Bosnia and Herzegovina and was called Breakfast with media on the topic “Is virtual real enough to you?”

Read the full blog post in GenderIT.org .

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