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Baseline study: Violence against women and gender based harassment in context of ICT penetration in Pakistan

Bytes for All
Bytes for All on 5 April, 2013 - 17:04
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Bytes for All from Pakistan is a partner in APC's project "End violence: Women's rights and safety online" financed by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affair’s (DGIS) Funding Leadership and Opportunities for Women (FLOW) Fund.

This report is intended to provide insight into the use of ICTi tools as a means of women empowermenti, aiming to dissect their use in facilitating women in realising leadership roles in society. The report is meant primarily to tackle the issues of ‘Violence against women’ (VAW) and ‘Gender based cyber harassment’ in Pakistan, and to address these issues by holding a discourse on the use of ICTs as tools for the betterment of this condition – by enabling and positioning women in roles where they can proactively work towards such a goal themselves.

 
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Women's Legal and Human Rights Bureau (Philippines)

Website: http://womenslegalbureau.wordpress.com/

The Women’s Legal and Human Rightsi Bureau (WLB) is a feminist legal non-governmenti organization from Philippines composed of women’s rights activists and advocates since 1990.

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Centre for Independent Journalism

Website: http://www.cijmalaysia.org
The Centre for Independent Journalism, Malaysia (CIJ) is a non-profit media organisation established in 2001. CIJ works towards a democratic and responsible media by empowering communities to claim and protect their information and communication rights.
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IT For Change

Website: http://www.itforchange.net/
TfC (IT For Change) is a non-profit organisation located in India that envisions a society capable of, and comfortable with, innovative and effective use of information and communication technologies (ICTi) as a tool, to further goals of progressive social change. They are a network of development professionals committed to engage with the on-going technology and development discourse by reviewing, interpreting and critiquing existing approaches and conceptualizing alternatives to blend technological possibilities with development realities in the South.
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Comunicación, Intercambio y Desarrollo Humano en America Latina

Website: http://www.laneta.apc.org/cidhal/index.html
Organization created with the aim of contributing with solid institutions towards the gender equityi as a central axis to improve the quality of life through health services, education, communication and information, fostering the citizen participation and the respect for human rightsi.
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Modem Mujer

Website: http://www.modemmujer.org/inicio.html
Women's Communication Network dedicated to give visibility to initiatives, proposals and actions of people and organizations - especially women organizations - that develope their activities taking into account the gender perspective.
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Agéncia Latinoamericana de Información

Website: http://www.alainet.org
The Latin American Information Agency -ALAI- is a communications organization, committed to the full respect of human rightsi, gender equalityi and people's participation in development and policyi making in Latin America. Its actions are part of the struggle for the democratization of communication, as a basic prerequisite for democratic society and social justice.
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United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific

Website: http://www.unescap.org/
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) is the regional arm of the United Nations Secretariat for the Asian and Pacific. It provides a forum for all Governments of the region to review and discuss economic and social issues and to strengthen regional cooperation.
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Mahiti

Website: http://www.mahiti.org/
MAHITI provides Information and Communication Technologyi services to the civil sector specialising in multi-platform, multi-lingual web, intranet, multimedia and kiosk applications.
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Pacific Women's Bureau

Website: http://www.spc.int/women/
Pacific Women's Bureau is part of the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC). It provides technical and advisory services to the 22 island member countries of the SPC through national focal points for women and the SPC Pacific Conference for Women, held every three years.
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