Previous Editorials
Take Back the Tech! campaign now a global movement
Since its inception in 2006, the Take Back the Tech!i campaign has grown into a global movement. Women everywhere are using technology to combat gender-based violence, and assert their rights to free and open online spaces. Despite its global reach, the Take Back the Tech! campaign is designed to be adapted to local issues and local circumstances. This year the campaign is focusing on building capacity for women to use ICTis safely and to build collaborative and systematic monitoring platforms to assess the scope and dimensions of how technology and violence against womeni intersect.
Scoring participation – how does change happen for women in the IGF
During the years of my school and university studies, report cards caused me high levels of anxiety but with some underlying optimism. Report cards assumed all-knowing experts were making decisions around my abilities and progress. It would invariably be a measure of success or failure and would expose my weak points and (hopefully) highlight my positive traits. But they always had a judgemental and antagonistic picture in my mind...
Internet rights are women's rights!
Some reflections on erotica and internet: the feminist perspective
Mabel Bianco accounts what the experience of researching and examining issues of sexuality in the interneti mean to her and her organization - the Foundation for Study and Research on Women (FEIM): " Personally, I have always worked, studied, researched and written on sexuality, especially in women from childhood to old age, but regarding the effect on their lives and reproduction. Never before had I personally explored the intersection between the form of communication enabled by internet and sexuality, how this affects and impacts the lives of women."
Sex and the Net -- It starts with rights
Message for the Human Rights Council: Take action!
On Friday 3 June 2011, the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expressioni, Frank La Rue, will present his annual report to the Human Rightsi Council. This year the report will focus on the interneti. The report outlines the growing trend of restricting freedom of expression and association online, and the importance of reaffirming these freedoms in the online sphere. Learn how you can support your country’s involvement in the defence of human rights on the internet.
World Press Freedom Day - Take Back the Tech! to defend your right to communicate
Women’s voices, representation in media spaces and opportunity to make a living creating media is continually marginalised. Women and girls are facing particular barriers to using ICTi for communication. This ranges from disparity in access to technology and decision-making positions, to technology-related violence against womeni such as harassment, online monitoring and identity theft that create a hostile and violent online environment for women and girls. On May 3 join a global day of action to defend our right to sharei information and opinions freely online – and be our own media!
Tipping the balance for local adopters of technology
Gender, science and technology. This theme will be analysed, dissected and evaluated at the 55th session of the Commission on Status of Women. Governmenti delegates, non-government representatives and activists will troop to the United Nations headquarters in New York, braving the coldest winter in decades, to assess how women and girls are faring in education, training and employment in scientific and technological fields. To a large extent, this is a foregone conclusion. Science and technology continue to be incredibly gender-biased.
Regimes cannot overcome the power of people communicating in solidarity
Defend women's human rights. Declare our culture as free from violence against women!
All over the world, culture has been used as an excuse to justify violence against womeni. Whether it is in the form of ignoring sexual
harassment in the office by saying it's just part of the "work culture", to saying it's okay to kill women who have violated a community's "honor code".
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