Feminist Talk

When did you first realise how your freedom of expressionⁱ or association could be violated online? When did you first "make the connection" between human rightsⁱ and internet rights ⁱas a women human rights defender? The "Connect Your Rights campaign" campaign and GenderIT.orgⁱ is calling for submissions of blogⁱs, poems, digital stories, artwork and other visuals to help others make the connection.

Aisha Lee Shaheed was one of the participants of the two-day workshop “Women’s Rights and Internet Governanceⁱ” convened by the APC WNSP late September 2011, in Nairobi, Kenya, just prior to the 6th Annual Internetⁱ Governance Forum. In her blogⁱ post, Aisha recounts how the workshop shifted her perspective on internet governance and why she as a women human rightsⁱ defender should care about it.

"New spaces made available to women in the digital world are also becoming spaces for violence against womenⁱ to occur", notes Lenlen in her feminist talk. In her article, she outlines some of these new emergent forms of violence against women in the Philippines, in the hope of raising awareness and engendering appropriate responses from all stakeholders.

Flavia Fascendini explores two communities on the Orkut social networkingⁱ site on sexuality: one is a forum for anti-lesbian prejudice, and the second is a community aimed at legitimising romantic relationships between adults and adolescents. Both groups were studied as the part of the Brazilian EROTICSⁱ research project that focused on mapping the dynamic and complex policyⁱ shifts on internetⁱ regulationⁱ debates in Brazil.