Back and forth in the advancement of women's rights at CSW58

Mon 7 Apr 2014
The theme of the 58th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW58), which took place in New York on 10-21 March 2014, was “Challenges and achievements in the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals for women and girls”. Also…

GISWatch 2013: Setting the agenda on women’s rights, gender and ICTs

Tue 3 Dec 2013
In the 2013 Global Information Society Watch’s institutional overview entitled "Whose internet is it anyway? Shaping the internet – feminist voices in governance decision making":…

Gender peripheries of the Internet Governance Forum in Indonesia

Wed 20 Nov 2013
The Internet Governance Forum (IGF) has taken constructive steps to integrate gender equality into its space, processes and issues. This years' Gender Roundtable and other specific spaces such as the Gender Dynamic Coalition, aimed to strengthen the…

Gender peripheries of the Internet Governance Forum in Latin America

Mon 30 Sep 2013
The Sixth Regional Preparatory Meeting for the Internet Governance Forum that took place in Argentina at the end of August showed that women are making headway in the Latin American forum. The involvement of young women in internet governance…

Networking, safety and sexual agency

Wed 17 Jul 2013
98% of activists see the internet as an "important public sphere for advancing sexual rights":http://www.genderit.org/node/3836. However 51% of them have suffered online hate speech, censorship or…

End violence against women: language and action @ CSW57th

Fri 5 Apr 2013
This GenderIT.org edition offers reflections on language and actions surrounding issues of technology-related forms of violence against women (VAW). We're looking at these in the perspective/context of the APC project "End violence: Women’s rights…

Power of stories to reclaim women's rights

Fri 14 Dec 2012
The 2012 "Take Back the Tech! campaign":https://www.takebackthetech.net/, a collaborative campaign that takes place annually during the "16 Days of Activism Against Gender-based Violence":…

Gender Peripheries of the 2012 Internet Governance Forum

Thu 22 Nov 2012
The 7th Internet Governance Forum in Baku drew to a close two weeks ago. "Avri Doria in her introduction to this edition":http://www.genderit.org/node/3709 discusses several breakthroughs made by this…

Crossing borders : cyberspace and national security

Thu 25 Oct 2012
This edition of GenderIT.org explores the online safety of women human rights defenders from the perspective of national security and counter-terrorism. National security often encompasses a variety of security threats, including those in cyberspace…