violence against women
Tweets for Women: Reflections on Challenging Misogyny Online
Digital feminist activists have been following closely a campaign to demand clearer and more effective Twitter policies on sexually violent tweets.
Is cyberspace a safe space for women and girls?
Today is #orangeday, a monthly campaign to raise global awareness on issues relevant to preventing and ending violence against women and girls.
#fbrape is about gender-based hate speech, not about censorship
On May 21 more than a hundred organisations lead by Women, Action & the Media, the journalist Soraya Chemaly, and The Everyday Sexism Project started a campaign to Take action to end gender-based violence on Facebook.
Transparency and accountability: Finding points of agreement following the #fbrape campaign
Last month a coalition of women’s organisations led a campaign to hold Facebook accountable for its content policy. In particular, how it deals with hateful speech and representations of gender-based violence shared by its users. In response, freedom of expression advocates have expressed concern and criticism over the precedent set by demands for Facebook to remove hateful content from its site.
#FBrape campaign and the necessary debate
The “Take action to end gender-based violence on Facebook” campaign, or #FBrape campaign, co-signed by the APC Women´s Rights Programme, triggered interesting, timely, and necessary debates around freedom of expression, censorship, privacy, and intermediary liability. Read the collection of GenderIT.org Feminist Talk discussions.
The false paradox: freedom of expression and sexist hate speech
(Margarita Salas’ blog post for GenderIT.org Feminist Talk) When we talk about freedom of expression we are within the paradigm of human rights. Human rights are indivisible, interrelated and interdependent, which means that the improvement of one right facilitates advancement of the others and the deprivation of one right adversely affects the others.
How funny is this, Facebook?
“Take action to end gender-based violence on Facebook” is this campaign’s call that asks companies whose publicity appears on explicitly violent Facebook pages and profiles to help pressure the social networking platform to re-examine its response to violence against women and girls.
Take Action To End Gender-Based Hate Speech on Facebook
Facebook has long allowed content endorsing violence against women.
“Yes, this happened to me”: Making progress toward recognition of technology related violence
APC and its seven country partners have achieved milestones after their first year of work on the project “End violence: Women’s rights and safety online.” APCNews interviewed Jan Moolman, project coordinator, about the main highlights of this first year and the challenges and expectations for the year ahead.
Agreed conclusions in CSW 57th include violence against women and ICT
The 57th Commission on the Status of Women took place from 4 to 15 March 2013 at United Nations Headquarters under the theme “Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls.” Setting a milestone for internet and women’s rights, this year’s conclusions include a paragraph on violence against women related to information and communication technologies.
