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EROTICS raises fascinating new questions

Grady Johnson
Grady Johnson on 23 June, 2011 - 12:04
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Grady Johnson is a writer and researcher focused on issues of freedom of expression. He is a major contributor to APC's Internet Rights Monitor and the new "Connect your rights: Internet rights are human rights" campaign. Grady also acts as GenderIT.org English Language Editor. He is based in Ottawa, Canada.
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The EroTICsi research of sexuality and the interneti revealed that contrary to much public opinion, sexuality online is much more than just pornography. As the EroTICs project comes to a close, GenderIT.orgi's writer Grady Johnson asked some of the experts to share their thoughts about the research.

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Lebanon and USA: Where is the line for sex on the internet?

Mavic Cabrera-Balleza
Mavic Cabrera-Balleza on 22 June, 2011 - 22:07
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Mavic Cabrera-Balleza is the international coordinator of the Global Network of Women Peacebuilders. Since 2006, Mavic has been a member of the GenderIT.org pool of writers.
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GenderIT.orgi contributor Mavic Cabrera-Balleza speaks with EroTICSi researchers Melissa Hope Ditmore and Kevicha Echols as well as LGBTi activist Nadine Moawad about the role of the interneti in our sexual lives. They talk about the effect that filtering and censorship have on sexual expression and access to informationi, particularly for youth and LGBT persons.

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Pakistan: Count me IN!! Something I can’t unthink now...

Nighat Dad
Nighat Dad on 21 June, 2011 - 15:10
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Nighat Dad is the Pakistan's partner for the APC's MDG3: Take Back the Tech! project, and heavily engaged in public policy and research work related to ICTs in Pakistan. She is based in Lahore and works with Bytes for All Pakistan, the APC member.

Nighat Dad shares her experience from the Count me IN! Conference organized by CREA, an international, feminist, human rightsi organisation, in April 2011, in Kathmandu. The Conference brings annually together women who have not been counted in - sex workers, disabled, single, young, lesbian and HIV-positive women, and trans people from India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangiladesh and Sri Lanka, to discuss violence against womeni and strategies of resistance. "I was bit amazed at the title of the conference, “Count me IN!” but when I looked into the agenda in detail I noticed that the conference had a very particular focus on the overlooked segments of society which we tend to ignore in our activism and feminist movements," introduces Nighat her post-conference reflection.

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Gay Girl in Damascus is actually Straight Man in Scotland

Grady
Grady on 21 June, 2011 - 14:46
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If you saw the headline you have no doubt already heard the news that Gay Girl in Damascus was totally a dude. I know, right?

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Emerging forms of violence on the internet impact on women's rights, declares APC at the Human Rights Council

APC
APC on 9 June, 2011 - 21:08
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APC calls on stateis to brings attention to emerging threats to women's freedom of expressioni and emerging forms of violence on the interneti that impact on women's rightsi.The Statement is part of a set of recommendations submitted to the Human Rightsi Council iin preparation for its seventeenth regular session (30 May – 17 June 2011).

 
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Checkin from the Human Rights Council, a new and complex universe!

Marina Maria
Marina Maria on 9 June, 2011 - 20:37
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Marina Maria, a member of the Brazil EroTICs research team.

Marina Maria representing the APC's EroTICsi project at the 17th session of UN Human Rightsi Council ishares her experiences from the mission to 'a new and complex universe'.

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CLAM

Website: CLAM

Working with scholars, activists and other partners, CLAM approaches sexuality from a social perspective and fights against the discrimination of sexual minorities in Latin America. In partnership with Sexuality Policyi Watch (SPW), CLAM worked with the Brazilian team of the APC's EroTICsi project - a global research on sexuality and the interneti, which included researchers from Brazil, India, Lebanon, South Africa, and the United Stateis.

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Naomi Wolf's interesting take on a recent storm of high-profile sexual scandals

Purple Duck
Purple Duck on 6 June, 2011 - 14:52
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A feminist, communication activist, mother of 2.5 years old and a member of GenderIT.org team.

In the article Sex and Surveillancei published by Aljazeera , Naomi Wolf gives her own interesting take on a recent storm of sexual scanidals involving public figures, such as the head of the International Monetary Fund Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, and raises some interesting points and questions.

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Let's continue the debate: 'Internet rights are human rights' panel's video recording

Purple Duck
Purple Duck on 3 June, 2011 - 14:00
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A feminist, communication activist, mother of 2.5 years old and a member of GenderIT.org team.

The video recording of excellent panel on freedom of expressioni and the interneti organized by the APC in cooperation with the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs at the Human Rightsi Council’s 17th session in Geneva on 3 June, is now available online http://media.lscube.org/view?what=/APC/apc_2011_06_03.mpg. Let's keep dialogi going about women's freedom of expression and association and how to give women's and sexual rightsi meaning in the internet context.

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UN Human Rights Council (UN HRC)

Website: http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/

The UN Human Rights Council , or HRC, is an inter-governmential body within the UN system made up of 47 Stateis responsible for strengthening the promotion and protection of human rights around the globe. The HRC is a key process within the UN system to study, investigate, assess and provide recommendations on human rights issues and violations. The Council iundertakes a Universal Periodic Review of the human rights record of all 192 UN member states once every four years.

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