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          <title>Internet regulation and the Brazilian EroTICs context</title>
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          <description><![CDATA[Authors Sonia Corrêa, Marina Maria and Jandira Queiroz document how gender and sexuality have been at the heart of internet regulation debates in Brazil. However, this centrality does not necessarily translate to the discourses, analysis and the political claims of social actors involved in sexual politics, on the one hand, and digital politics, on the other. In the authors' view, there is no clarity or positioning among feminists and LGBT activists regarding the ways in which gender and sexuality issues are at play in the political dynamics of internet regulation. Further no strong interaction exists between communication rights advocates and the world of sexual politics. Nevertheless the authors perceive cyber activists' commitment to privacy rights as very auspicious for sexual and reproductive rights.]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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          <title>How to look at censorship with a gender lens</title>
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          <description><![CDATA[Heike Jensen and Sonia Randhawa, APC WNSP members participating in a  gender team of the OpenNet Initiative in Asia (ONI-Asia), talk about how censorship and gender interrelate.  Since 2006, APC WNSP has taken a closer look at internet censorship and surveillance practices from a gender perspective in order to develop a gender research framework for examining freedom of expression, security and privacy for ONI project partners in Asia, as well as future research initiatives that are looking into the area of content regulation. ONI-Asia is part of a larger OpenNet Initiative, a collaborative project that aims to investigate, expose and analyse internet filtering and surveillance practices.]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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          <title>Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Internet?</title>
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          <description><![CDATA[&quot;Clearly, one cannot speak of sexual rights activism in Lebanon without speaking at length about internet usage, as both are tied together at levels from personal identity and relationships to political activism and mobilization,&quot; claims Nadine Moawad, the APC's EroTICs project partner. In this article, she assesses the role of the internet in the rise of sexual rights activism in Lebanon, and explores connections between internet regulations and attitudes towards sexuality. ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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          <title>‘Does your mother know?’ Agency, risk and morality in the online lives of young women in Mumbai</title>
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          <description><![CDATA[Manjima Bhattacharjya and Maya Ganesh, the India partner of the APC's EroTICs Project, open their input with the evocative lyrics of a Swedish pop group ABBA: “And I can chat with you baby / Flirt a little, maybe / But does your mother know that you’re out ?” This article is about middle-class women digital natives in Mumbai, the city with the highest internet use in India, and the initial impressions of their online lives as drawn from interviews and survey data gathered for the ongoing EroTICs research project. ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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          <title>What Is 'Harmful to Minors'? US EroTICs Partner Investigates Library Search Filters</title>
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          <description><![CDATA[In this article, Kevicha Echols and Melissa Ditmore from Sex Work Awareness (SWA), researchers for the APC's EroTICs project, investigate the use of filters on public library computers with internet access. People in the United States (US) enjoy a great deal of access to information in print and online media due to the first amendment of the US constitution, which guarantees freedom of speech, and, thereby, its flip side, access to information. However, many people in the US, particularly youth and the economically disadvantaged (who are disproportionately people of colour), rely on school and library computers to access the internet for information, so legislation affecting information available on these computers affects their ability to access information. (Photo: Audacia Ray)]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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          <title>Negotiating transgender identities on a South African web site</title>
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          <description><![CDATA[Jeanne Prinsloo, the APC's EroTICs project partner in South Africa, looks at the use of the internet by South African transgender people, and examines the internet's role in the process of transitioning from one gender identity to another. She concludes that the internet provides a critical space for trans people to access support, to rehearse their new identity, to hear marginalised narratives and to assess the risks they might take. Jeanne argues that calls for content regulation should not result in censorship and surveillance practices that would curtail the trans people's freedom of expression and their internet use. ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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          <title>Rights . Violence . Technology - HELP US TO JOIN THE DOTS</title>
          <link><![CDATA[http://www.genderit.org/en/index.shtml?apc=a--e--1&x=96385]]></link>
          <description><![CDATA[Policies, laws and development plans on emerging ICTs rarely take into account the reality of violence against women in its creation and implementation. Similarly, policies and laws on violence against women rarely take into account the dimensions of emerging ICTs. How have developments in information and communications technologies strengthened the efforts to end violence against women? How has it enabled violence against women to happen? Help us to join the dots.<br> 
<B>Draw the story of how violence against women and ICTs link in your spaces.  The closing date for submissions is 17 May 2010.</B>]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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          <title>Reaction to the Gender Findings from Africa’s Access to Knowledge Research</title>
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          <description><![CDATA[GenderIT.org writer and a Research Officer at Canada`s International Development Research Centre, Kathleen Diga tracks the journey of <a href="http://www.aca2k.org/"> the African Copyright & Access to Knowledge</a> (ACA2K)research network to better understand the nature of African national copyright environments and their impact on equal opportunities for all citizens to access information, particularly in the realm of education. The author argues that the ultimate development goal of copyright law is to afford equal access to educational learning materials regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, disability or age. The law must be flexible in order to recognize existing or potential discrimination against vulnerable groups. For example income constraints are likely to discriminate against women more than men in efforts to access educational materials. It is a follow up  to a previous GenderIT.org article,<a href="http://www.genderit.org/en/index.shtml?apc=a--e96220-1&x=96220"> University women struggle for knowledge access in Africa</a>.[1]]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 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: 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>TIC : Femmes, logiciels libres, copyrights, …les oubliés du législateur et du décideur mauritaniens</title>
          <link><![CDATA[http://www.genderit.org/en/index.shtml?apc=a--e--1&x=96262]]></link>
          <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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