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Instituto Patricia Galvão

Website: http://www.agenciapatriciagalvao.org.br/index.php
Founded in 2001 the Patricia Galvao Institute is a Brazilian social organisation that works in the area of communication and women's rightsi. Recognising the power of media to influence social and political change, the institute`s mission is to influence public debate on and improve media coverage of critical issues affecting women in Brazil through multimedia content production and media campaign development. In May 2007, the Instituto Patrícia Galvão organised a media campaign that encouraged balanced coverage of Pope Benedict XVI’s trip to Brazil, including provision of truthful information concerning sexual and reproductive rights. The Institute is also an active member of Women & Media, the Brazilian network of feminist organisations and women that works to enforce social control of women's image in media. The network engages in ICT policyi advocacyi and fights for the democratisation of ICTs.
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Website: http://g2g.sarava.org/
Espaço-tempo-vestimenta para repensar gênero e tecnologia
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Grupo Gnurias

Website: http://www.gnurias.org.br/
Fundado em 2001, o grupo Gnurias busca discutir questões voltadas à inclusão digital e social, promovendo ações que desmitificam o uso da informática.
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Rede Mulher de Educação

Website: http://www.redemulher.org.br/
A feminist network created twenty years ago with the objective to enhance popular education, and with the mission to empower women considering to conquer a society based on equity, justice and sustentability.
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Projeto Software Livre Mulheres

Website: http://mulheres.softwarelivre.org/
The Projeto Software Livre Mulheres is an initiative of a group of active women within the Free Software community in Brazil. The group's website is a space for highlighting the debates and activities of the Free Software project within a gender perspective, although men are very welcome in the forums.
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Cemina - Comunicação, Educação e Informação em Gênero

Website: http://www.cemina.org.br
NGO created by a group of women actvisits who struggled to find a way to communicate with the general public about the aspirations, wishes, rights and changes that women seek for themselves and for society as a whole. It provides training in radio and ICTs for women and articulates a network of more than 400 communicator women.
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Culture, local traditions, and taboo - Challenges to the full expression of women’s voices

Graciela Selaimen
Graciela Selaimen on 12 July, 2006
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Popular communicators that work in community radio-telecentreis in different stateis of Brazil talk about their achievements and apprehensions concerning the complete freedom to express themselves. As members of the Cyberela Network (Red Cyberela) developed by the feminist organisation Cemina, the communicators explain the reasons behind their self-censorship and how they gradually overcome taboos and prejudices through their work with microphones and screens.

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Mexico, Argentina, Brazil and Colombia: Cross-country Study on Violence against Women and Information Communication Technologies

María Isabel Davidziuk and María Alejandra Davidziuk
María Isabel Davidziuk and María Alejandra Davidziuk on 22 February, 2010
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María Isabel and María Alejandra Davidziuk compare the findings of four national reports from Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and Colombia undertaken as part of the APC WNSP project “Strengthening women’s strategic usei of ICTs to combat violence against womeni and girls”. In their analysis they look at some barriers (both institutional and cultural) that need to be overcome in order for ICTs to be successfully used to decrease violence against women and girls.
 
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Brazil: Violence against Women and Information Communication Technologies

Ingrid Leao, Thais Lapa and Tamara Amoroso
Ingrid Leao, Thais Lapa and Tamara Amoroso on 4 November, 2009
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In this paper, Ingrid Leao, Thais Lapa and Tamara Amoroso discuss violence against womeni in the media, with advertisement and TV show examples. It also looks at civil society expectations for the first National Conference on Communications, to be held in December 2009. It examines the use of social networks like Orkut and Twitter; denouncements of VAW practices, such as cyber-bullying of teenage girls; and how ICTs are also used for prevention and assistance of VAW survivors.Read the abstract of the paper below. Full paper is available in Spanish.
 
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