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          <title>Violence against Women and Information Communication Technologies: Cambodia Country Report </title>
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          <description><![CDATA[Chim Manavy examines how growth of the internet is pushing the limits of a society's attitudes towards acceptable media images, through exploitative use of images taken for private consumption. Technology is moving across boundaries faster than the law can address. At the same time, ICT use in general, much less awareness of how ICTs can be strategically used to combat violence against women, is very limited in Cambodia.  While other women’s organisations and networks worldwide are already using online resources in a myriad of ways to mobilise support and share experiences, most Cambodian women are not familiar with the use of ICT.<br />
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          <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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          <title>Violence against Women and Information Communication Technologies: Brazil Country Report</title>
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          <description><![CDATA[In this paper, Ingrid Leao, Thais Lapa and Tamara Amoroso discuss violence against women in the media, with advertisement and TV show examples. It also looks at civil society expectations for the first National Conference on Communications, to be held in December 2009. It examines the use of social networks like Orkut and Twitter; denouncements of VAW practices, such as cyber-bullying of teenage girls; and how ICTs are also used for prevention and assistance of VAW survivors.<br />
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          <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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          <title>Violence against Women and Information Communication Technologies: Colombia Country Report. Overcoming patriarchy?</title>
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          <description><![CDATA[Lucy Niño and Lida Nuñez look at how the Colombian government has paid special attention to ICT policies, offering ICT literacy programmes and ICT inclusion in marginalised areas, while at the same time ICTs are used to promote prostitution and pornography produced in the country via the internet and cellphones. Government has produced a campaign to foster a “healthy use” of internet and to protect children. Social movements and women´s movements have also used ICTs for anti-VAW campaigning, supporting survivors and promoting images of women free from stereotypes in the media. This paper examines these trends, and urges action to end VAW in public, private and institutional spaces, in the internal armed conflict and in the symbolic sphere.<br />
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          <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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          <title>Violence against Women and Information Communication Technologies: Congo Country Report </title>
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          <description><![CDATA[In Congo, Sylvie Niombo explores the intersection of VAW and ICTs, where mobile phone use appears to be the primary vehicle used to perpetrate VAW using ICTs. SMS and phone calls are used by some men to harass women and girls. Male monitoring of women’s use of mobile phones leads to blurring of privacy issues and power relations between men and women are reflected by who has the resources to buy cell phones. Mobile phones are also used by young people to disseminate pictures of naked girls. <br />
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          <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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          <title>Violence against Women and Information Communication Technologies: Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Country Report</title>
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          <description><![CDATA[In the context of a country with one of the world's worst human rights records, women and girls are the victims of sexual violence perpetrated mostly by combatants from both sides. However, Sylvie Niombo finds in this paper that the intersections between violence against women and girls and ICTs in the DRC are not well established. The internet makes it possible to share experiences and receive information to advance the cause of women’s rights but can facilitate violence towards Congolese women and girls.  A lack of confidence in the legal system and the strong presence of men in the judiciary make women unlikely to seek help from the courts, but there is growing mobilisation of women and human rights organisations in the fight to end violence against women (VAW) in partnership with the United Nations and international organisations.<br />
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          <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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          <title>Violence against women and ICTs in the Pacific Islands region: An overview</title>
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          <description><![CDATA[Sonia Randhawa interviews FemLINK Pacific coordinator Sharon Bhagwan-Rolls to get an overview of violence against women in the Pacific Islands region and to look at how ICTs are contributing to increasing the vulnerability of women and providing new forms of harassment and harm, while at the same time grassroots initiatives such as a mobile community radio station are helping to provide women with tools for building self-confidence and information on what to do in times of crisis.<br />
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          <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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          <title>Violence against Women and Information Communication Technologies: Malaysia Country Report : Strengthening women's strategic use of ICTs to combat vio</title>
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          <description><![CDATA[Jac SM Kee and Sonia Randhawa highlight forms of VAW that have received recognition in Malaysia and provide the context of ICT development and national policy objectives in this paper. It is not an exhaustive assessment of the current state of VAW, but rather aims to surface some of the interconnections between ICT issues and VAW and areas of potential opportunities for advocacy, as well as looking at related cyber laws and areas of regulation, particularly content regulation, privacy and surveillance.<br />
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          <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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          <title>Violence against Women and Information Communication Technologies: Pakistan Country Report </title>
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          <description><![CDATA[Access to mobile technology is increasing rapidly in Pakistan, and women are also gaining access, albeit at a slower rate than men. Kyla Pasha examines how mobile technology is ripe for use in strategies of empowerment, as long as access to technology is accompanied by training and orientation.<br />
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          <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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          <title>Violence against Women and Information Communication Technologies: Philippines Country Report: The nexus of violence against women (VAW) and informati</title>
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          <description><![CDATA[Jessica Umanos Sotos explores why specific law is needed in the Philippines to prosecute perpetrators of violence against women through the use of ICTs or cyberspace. She argues that national ICT institutions and private companies’ policies cannot remain blind to the violations to women’s rights perpetuated via ICTs in the context of the violation of privacy rights through the illicit production and distribution of private and intimate activities.  The violation of privacy rights comes in the form of sex-video scandals via telephony and internet. She also documents how, although there are no available studies on how other forms of violence such as stalking or sexual harassment and even direct threats are figuring as VAW via mobile phones, these violations are believed to be widespread.<br />
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          <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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          <title>Violence against Women and Information Communication Technologies: South Africa Country Report </title>
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          <description><![CDATA[Two key debates are examined in the paper by Shereen Essof: censorship versus freedom of expression and privacy versus surveillance. She looks at the practices of VAW in a country with the world's highest reported rate of femicide and where there is little understanding of the strategic use of ICTs to support combating VAW as well as recognizing new avenues for perpetrating violence against women.<br />
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          <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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          <title>Violence against Women and Information Communication Technologies: Uganda Country Report: Strengthening women’s strategic use of ICT to combat violenc</title>
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          <description><![CDATA[Aramanzan Madanda, Berna Ngolobe and Goretti Zavuga Amuriat look at how ICTs have been used to help provide spaces for women and sexual minorities. Sexual minorities have a presence on the internet to articulate concerns of members and raise awareness. Women’s mobile phone use is controlled by their husbands, who either give or withold permission to use and dictate when and how. Some women have acquired two SIM cards to forestall domestic violence. The authors view  this as a sign of women’s empowerment as telephones provide a means through which to break male control by opening contacts to the outside world.  <br />
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          <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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          <title>TIC : Femmes, logiciels libres, copyrights, …les oubliés du législateur et du décideur mauritaniens</title>
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          <description><![CDATA[Les logiciels libres sont une vraie solution aux problèmes de fracture numérique  qu’engendre le sous -développement. En effet, il est désormais indéniable qu’ils ont, avec  l’implication des femmes et leur prise en compte comme actrices incontournables, une part importante à jouer dans la création d’un environnement favorable à un développement équitable et durable. ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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          <title>Les droits d’auteur et les brevets limitent–ils l’accès aux connaissances et au traitement du VIH/SIDA en Afrique?</title>
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          <description><![CDATA[Le dernier rapport de 2008 de l’ONUSIDA confirme que l’Afrique subsaharienne reste la région du monde la plus sérieusement affectée par le VIH, et représente les deux tiers (671%) du total des personnes vivant avec le VIH et les trois quarts (75%) des décès dus au SIDA en 2007. Environ 1,9 million de personnes ont été nouvellement infectées par le VIH en Afrique subsaharienne.]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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          <title>ICTs: Women, free software, copyrights,… forgotten by Mauritanian legislators and decision-makers</title>
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          <description><![CDATA[Fatma Mint Elkory Oumrane takes a look at the progress Mauritania is making in encouraging open access to materials, its copyright regime and how these impact on women. She examines the role of women as ICT graduates and looks at how the government is helping overcome the various digital divides - and the large amount of work that remains to be done.]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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          <title>Copyright? Copyleft? Why does it matter? An interview with Heather Ford</title>
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          <description><![CDATA[GenderIt writer Mavic Cabrera-Balleza interviewed Heather Ford, Founder of the African Commons Project, a South African NGO with the goal of mobilizing communities through active participation in collaborative technology. Ford has worked in the fields of internet policy, law and management in South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States. She sheds light on some of these issues.]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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