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“What is your price for the night?” – From ‘sexual strangers’ to ‘sexual citizens’ using ICTs

Shehla Rashid for Internet Democracy Project
Shehla Rashid for Internet Democracy Project on 5 March, 2013 - 22:10
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EROTICSi – which stands for Exploratory Research on Sexuality and ITCs (same as ICTis)- is a global project that attempts to explore how marginalized sections are using the Interneti and the ICTs, at large, to assert their sexual rightsi. The India chapter - #EROTICSIndia - was organised in Delhi recently by the Internet Democracy Project in collaboration with South Africa based APC and Point of View, Mumbai.

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New mobile app for sexuality research pulled back over privacy concerns

Melissa Ditmore
Melissa Ditmore on 23 October, 2012 - 09:28
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Melissa Ditmore is researcher based in New York. She engage with issues of gender, development, health and human rights, particularly as they relate to marginalized populations such as sex workers.

Melissa Ditmore reflects on release and subsequent pulling back of new application designed to collect data on sexual activity by Kinsey Institute in the USA. She outlines privacyi concerns raised and how these holes can jeopardize users data. She also makes a make a case how this app once privacy gaps are fixed can assist to document unwanted and often under-reported sexual experiences, such as rape or sexual harassment.

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The hack of Uganda’s government websites: Anonymous could do better

Melanie Nathan for Oblogdeeoblogda.me
Melanie Nathan for Oblogdeeoblogda.me on 27 August, 2012 - 15:59
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Melanie Nathan is a human rights advocate who writes and speaks about ending prejudice and discrimination against sexuality minorities. In her advocacy work she focus primarily on LGBT issues in United States of America and Africa.

Uganda’s Governmenti websites were hacked and defaced earlier this month. The hacksters asserted that their actions were to protest the Ugandan Government persecution of the LGBTIi community of Uganda where being gay is considered criminal and where legislation is pending Uganda’s parliament that would impose harsh prison penalties on gay people, including the death sentence for so called “aggravated homosexuality.” Melanie Nathan, an activists who write extensively about LGBT Uganda, notes that the actions of Anonymous may have caused more harm than good to the Ugandan LGBT Community.

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Statement: International Coalition Condemns Human Rights Violations Against W.O.N.E.T.H.A

WHRD IC
WHRD IC on 12 July, 2012 · Africa
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The Women Human Rights Defenders International Coalition (WHRD IC) is a resource and advocacy network for the protection and support of women human rights defenders worldwide

The Women Human Rights Defendersi International Coalition (WHRD IC) has expressed deep concern regarding the safety of five staff from the Uganda sex worker organization, Women’s Organization Network for Human Rights Advocacyi (WONETHA). On May 7, police authorities raided WONETHA's small office and arrested two staff and three members. The staff members face ongoing harassment and criminal charges. This is among others an attack on WONETHA and sex workers' freedom of associationi, assembly, speech and expression.

 
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Internet improves access to health care for sex workers in the Olympics area of London

KF
KF on 21 June, 2012 - 09:03
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The challenge of doing sexual health outreach work in East London has been transformed by police action in the run up to the Olympics. APC member GreenNet answered Open Doors Sexual Health Clinic’s request for a new website that could speak clearly to east London sexworkers with advice and resources.

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Latest CSW session could be a real step backward

Dafne Sabanes Plou
Dafne Sabanes Plou on 10 April, 2012 - 12:08
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Dafne works as the APC women's programme regional coordinator in Latin America. She is a journalist and long-time women's rights activist. Dafne lives just outside of Buenos Aires.

The inability of governmentis to agree on a common language of sexual and reproductive rights at the latest CSW session could potentially threaten established women's rightsi. So-called “traditional values” contradicti the spirit and effectiveness of human rightsi.

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Brazil, Magaly Pazello: “We have no specific debate on women's internet rights”

Flavia Fascendini
Flavia Fascendini on 5 April, 2012 - 10:11
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Flavia Fascendini is a social communicator. Since January 2007, she works as the GenderIT.org Spanish/Portuguese site editor.
GenderIT.org

Magaly Pazello, activist and specialist researcher in gender iand information and communication technologies, recently joined the team that developed the Brazil report for the UN's Universal Periodic Review. In discussion with Flavia Fascendini, the editor of GenderIT.orgi, Pazello confirmed that there is still a great deal to do with regards to the connection between women's rightsi and a broad understanding of the interneti.

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Submission to the Universal Periodic Review of Brazil

APC, Instituto Nupef, and Sexuality Policy Watch
APC, Instituto Nupef, and Sexuality Policy Watch on 3 April, 2012 - 23:40
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This joint submission has been prepared by the APC Women’s Networkingi Support Programme in consultation with Instituto Nupef and is endorsed by Sexuality Policyi Watch. The submission focuses on human rightsi and the interneti in Brazil. It highlights areas where Brazil is doing well, specific areas of concern, and makes five recommendations for follow-up and implementation. The submission focuses on the women’s human rights to sexual and reproductive health information and citizens’ rights to free expression and privacyi.

 
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'Love Letter to the Soldier' - video that moves people to change

Enrico Aditjondro for EngageMedia
Enrico Aditjondro for EngageMedia on 28 February, 2012 - 09:50
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Maria Goreti, a papuan woman, was left pregnant and abandoned by an indonesian soldier. She and her 3-year-old daughter are still waiting for him to return. South to South Film Festival award-winning short film “Love letter to the Soldier” by EngageMedia tells her story.

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Stripping the IGF bare: where are women´s rights?

Flavia Fascendini and Katerina Fialova
Flavia Fascendini and Katerina Fialova on 17 October, 2011 - 20:44
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Flavia Fascendini works as the GenderIT.org Spanish/Portuguese site editor. Katerina Fialova is chief editor of the GenderIT.org. Flavia lives in Argentina. Katerina is based in Czech Republic.
GenderIT.org

GenderIT.orgi's editors, Flavia Fascendini and Katerina Fialova, speak with the APC WNSP members who took part at the Sixth Internet Governance Forum ithat took place in Nairobi, Kenya from 27-30 September 2011. In the interview, Chat García Ramilo, Dafne Sabanes Plou, Jac sm Kee, Jan Moolman, and Jennifer Radloff from the APC Women´s Programme offer their insights regarding gender ibalance and the presence of women's rightsi in the 2011 IGF agenda.

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