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Dafne Sabanes Plou, Jac sm Kee and Katerina Fialova
Dafne Sabanes Plou, Jac sm Kee and Katerina Fialova on 18 October, 2011 - 13:09
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Dafne lives just outside of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and works as the APC women's programme regional coordinator in Latin America. Jac works from Kuala Lumpur as the focal point for APC WNSP's work on women's rights. Katerina Fialova is chief editor of the GenderIT.org, and is based in Czech Republic.

APC WNSP is sharing some preliminary results of the gender ireport cards initiative. This was a pilot initiative put forward by the Association for Progressive Communicationsi to monitor and assess the level of gender parity and inclusion at this year's Internet Governance Forum i(IGF). Although the numbers of sessions monitored were relatively small, and that a deeper analysis is needed, the statistics generated and first impressions can give us an idea of the role that women and gender issues played in this IGF's debates.

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Gender Peripheries of the 2011 Internet Governance Forum

Posted 18 October, 2011 - 10:04
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Year after year the Internet Governance Forum irenews expectations and opportunities of gender iadvocates to find innovative solutions to enhance women's rightsi online and offline. After 6 years of activism, this space still seems to be resistant to the inclusion of gender perspectives and activists are faced with more questions than answers. Where are women's rightsi on the internet governancei agenda? How to get the women's movements more involved within this new arena of public policyi? How to replace the protectionist approach that traditionally surrounds women's rights defence with one that is rights-based? Along with Jennifer Radloff who introduces this edition we believe it is a responsibility of all stakeholders ito make women's rights relevant and visible in the IGF debates, and to do so gender analysisi and women's participation needs to be much more institucionalised in the planning of the next IGF.

Year after year the Internet Governance Forum irenews expectations and opportunities of gender iadvocates to find innovative solutions to enhance women's rightsi online and offline. After 6 years of activism, this space still seems to be resistant to the inclusion of gender perspectives and activists arefaced with more questions than answers. Where are women's rightsi on the internet governancei agenda? How to get the women's movements more involved within this new arena of public policyi?

Scoring participation – how does change happen for women in the IGF

Jennifer Radloff
Jennifer Radloff on 17 October, 2011 - 21:39 on 17 October, 2011 - 21:39
Jennifer currently coordinates APC's work in supporting women human rights defenders use of ICTs securely through capacity building. This is part of the APC's Connect your rights! Internet rights are human rights campaign. She lives in South Africa.

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.

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...

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Stripping the IGF bare: where are women´s rights?

Flavia Fascendini and Katerina Fialova
Flavia Fascendini and Katerina Fialova on 17 October, 2011 - 20:44
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Flavia Fascendini works as the GenderIT.org Spanish/Portuguese site editor. Katerina Fialova is chief editor of the GenderIT.org. Flavia lives in Argentina. Katerina is based in Czech Republic.
GenderIT.org

GenderIT.orgi's editors, Flavia Fascendini and Katerina Fialova, speak with the APC WNSP members who took part at the Sixth Internet Governance Forum ithat took place in Nairobi, Kenya from 27-30 September 2011. In the interview, Chat García Ramilo, Dafne Sabanes Plou, Jac sm Kee, Jan Moolman, and Jennifer Radloff from the APC Women´s Programme offer their insights regarding gender ibalance and the presence of women's rightsi in the 2011 IGF agenda.

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Why women's movements should take a deep breath…and get involved in a new arena of public policy

Aisha Lee Shaheed
Aisha Lee Shaheed on 17 October, 2011 - 14:26
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Aisha Lee Shaheed has a background in history and communications, and works on issues of women’s human rights and social justice. Since 2007, she has been involved with the Violence is Not Our Culture Campaign. From Canada and Pakistan, she currently resides in the UK.

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.

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Women activists and internet governance: let's open the debate

Dafne Sabanes Plou
Dafne Sabanes Plou on 17 October, 2011 - 12:19
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Dafne works as the APC women's programme regional coordinator in Latin America. She is a journalist and long-time women's rights activist. Dafne lives just outside of Buenos Aires.
GenderIT.org

Dafne Plou reports on the workshop of about 20 women's rightsi advocates from different countries and backgrounds who met late September 2011, in Nairobi, Kenya, just before the 6th Internet Governance Forum ito share their experiences in policyi advocacyi and to discuss internet governancei and its linkage to women’s rights agendas. The workshop was organised by the APC Women's Networking Support Programmei (APC WNSP).

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6th UN IGF: Statement by the Gender Dynamic Coalition on gender equality and women's rights

Gender DC
Gender DC on 30 September, 2011 - 12:43
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The Gender iDynamic Coalition stateiment issued during the 6th UN Internet Governance Forum iin September 2011, in Kenya, criticises the continued gender imbalance in both participation (as speakers and participants of workshops and sessions) and substance of the discussions at IGF. It also supports the call to make human rightsi the IGF 2012 theme and requests that equal attention be paid to women's rightsi, emphasising the need of a rights-based approach instead of protectionist solutions.

 
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EROTICS: Sex, rights and the internet - an exploratory research study

Jac sm Kee et al
Jac sm Kee et al on 9 August, 2011 - 13:47
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*Editor:* Jac sm Kee. Authors: Manjima Bhattacharjya, Sonia Corrêa, Melissa Ditmore, Kevicha Echols, Maya Indira Ganesh, Marina Maria, Nicolene McLean, Nadine Moawad, Relebohile Moletsane, Jeanne Prinsloo, Tamara Qiblawi, Jandira Queiroz, Horacio Sívori, Bruno Zilli

How is the interneti a key public sphere for the struggle for sexual citizenship and the exercise of sexual rightsi? What is its value to a diversity of users, especially those most marginalised or discriminated against because of their sexual, gender ior other forms of social identity? Why do arguments for the regulationi of the internet anchor on the moral imperative to regulate sexuality? Who are the key actors influencing processes of decision making, and what are the ways in which the potentially liberatory impact of the internet is being constricted and narrowed? The 3 year EROTICSi research project delves into the complex world of sexuality and internet regulation, and uncovers interesting insights to these questions from Brazil, India, Lebanon, South Africa and the US. The full research findings and a synthesis chapter is presented in this report.

 
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India: Government should get out of the way

Grady
Grady on 29 July, 2011 - 13:17
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The net has often been portrayed by the media in India as "being a lair of sexual predators". Grady looks at some of the contradictions between policyi and practice that were revealed by the EROTICSi research in India, which explored the ways that young women negotiate risks online as they strategically use the interneti to explore, define and challenge boundaries of gender iand sexual norms.

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EROTICS in Brazil: The complex universe of sexuality on the internet

Flavia Fascendini
Flavia Fascendini on 28 June, 2011 - 11:30
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Flavia Fascendini is a social communicator. Since January 2007, she works as the GenderIT.org Spanish/Portuguese site editor.
GenderIT.org

Sexuality Policyi Watch and the Latin American Centre on Sexuality and Human Rightsi teamed up together to conduct the EroTICsi research in Brazil. In an interview with Flavia Fascendini, they talked about their participation in the project as an opportunity to address the nuanced impact of new Interneti legislation on sexuality. They approached this complex issue from two sides: looking at legislative and public policy on the one hand, and at expressions of sexual minorities on the other. Their next step will be to discuss the findings with other researchers and actors in the fields of communications, gender iand sexual rightsi.

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