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Women's Legal and Human Rights Bureau (Philippines)

Website: http://womenslegalbureau.wordpress.com/

The Women’s Legal and Human Rightsi Bureau (WLB) is a feminist legal non-governmenti organization from Philippines composed of women’s rights activists and advocates since 1990.

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Voices from digital spaces: Technology related violence against women - executive summary

Katerina Fialova and Flavia Fascendini
Katerina Fialova and Flavia Fascendini on 27 March, 2012 - 15:59
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Based in Czech Republic, Katerina is GenderIT.org´s project coordinator. Flavia lives in Argentina and is Spanish and Portuguese GenderIT.org editor.

Drawing on findings from APC's MDG3i: Take Back the Tech!i project with women's rightsi organisations in twelve countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America, this paper explores the links between the interneti, cell phones and violence against womeni and illustrates that technology related violence impacts women as seriously as other forms of violence.

 
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Voices from digital spaces: Technology related violence against women

Katerina Fialova and Flavia Fascendini
Katerina Fialova and Flavia Fascendini on 27 March, 2012 - 15:52
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Based in Czech Republic, Katerina is GenderIT.org´s coordinator. Flavia lives in Argentina and is Spanish and Portuguese GenderIT.org editor.

Drawing on findings from APC's MDG3i: Take Back the Tech!i project with women's rightsi organisations in twelve countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America, this paper explores the links between the interneti, cell phones and violence against womeni and illustrates that technology related violence impacts women as seriously as other forms of violence.

 
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Take Back The Tech! Bosnia - Herzegovina

Website: http://www.takebackthetech.net/connect/vratimo-kontrolu-nad-tehnologijom

Take Back The Tech!i Bosnia - Herzegovina first launched in 2008. Its sponsor, the OneWorld Platform for Southeast Europei Foundation (OWPSEE), in collaboration with other local organizations, joined the global Take Back The Tech! campaign by localizing its key message for the citizens - especially women and girls - of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Macedonia and Albania. Their actions organized during the global 16 days of activism against gender-based violence range from the translation of campaign materials in three local languages (Bosnian/Serbian/Croatian, Macedonian and Albanian), round-table discussions, documenting, publishing, training or digital storytelling.

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Take Back The Tech! Be safe

Take Back The Tech!
Take Back The Tech! on 15 December, 2011 - 08:58
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Take Back the Tech! is a collaborative campaign initiated by the Association for Progressive Communications, Women's Networking Support Programme (APC WNSP) in 2006 that looks at the connection between information and communication technologies (ICT) and violence against women.

The Take Back the Tech!i Be Safe website section offers tips and ideas on steps women and girls can take to make their online experiences safer. It addresses security issues regarding privacyi (emailis, online chats, password protection, mobile phones), prevention of cyberstalkingi or secure online browsing.

 
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Take Back the Tech! online mapping platform

Take Back The Tech!
Take Back The Tech! on 14 December, 2011 - 16:42
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Take Back the Tech! is a collaborative campaign initiated by the Association for Progressive Communications, Women's Networking Support Programme (APC WNSP) in 2006 that looks at the connection between information and communication technologies (ICT) and violence against women.

This mapping platform is part of the Take Back the Tech!i campaign, and provides a space for the documenting and monitoring of experiences and stories of women and girls who faced violence against womeni (VAW) online or through the use of mobile phone technologies. The interactive map monitors technology-related VAW according to five broad categories: the type of VAW, the act of violation (what the abuser or violator did), the harm faced by twomen survivors, the technology platform which was implicated or used in the incidence of VAW, and the level of familiarity or involvement with the abuser or violator. In collaboration with the local campaigners, the map operates in 10 languages, including French, Spanish, Bosnian, Lugandan, Arabic, Urdu and Portuguese.

 
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Take Back the Tech! campaign now a global movement

Jac sm Kee
Jac sm Kee on 14 December, 2011 - 10:28 on 14 December, 2011 - 10:28
Jac is the focal point for APC WNSP's work on women's rights. She coordinates the EroTICS research (Exploratory Research on Sexuality and the Internet) and APC's "Take Back The Tech!" campaign.

Take Back the Tech! started in November 2006 with a small but important idea: the increasing availability and reliance on new information technologies was transforming them into a political space, urgently in need of a feminist lens for engagement, understanding and envisioning. Women's contributions to the historical development of interneti technologies were getting lost and forgotten, the reality of violence faced by women and girls all over the world was already seeping into online spaces and was not being given the attention needed.

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.

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Mapping the intersection of technology and gender-based violence

Sonia Randhawa
Sonia Randhawa on 14 December, 2011 - 10:00 · Arab States
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Sonia Randhawa is the member of GenderIT.org's pool of writers. She produces a community radio programme, Accent of Women, available at www.3cr.org.au, and a member of ISIS-International Manila. Sonia is based in Australia/Malaysia.
GenderIT.org

On 25 November 2011, Take Back The Tech!i campaign launched an interactive map that allows interneti users to share their stories, local news and personal experiences of gender-based violence they faced online or through the use of mobile phone technologies. As of 7 December, the map has recorded 103 stories from across the globe, with the majority of stories coming from Africa, Latin America and Asia. Sonia Randhawa draws on the data collected through the mapping platform and looks at some of the trends this data reveals to us about technology-related violence against womeni.

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From Clock Square to StreetWatch: mapping sexual harassment in Palestina

Dalia Othman
Dalia Othman on 14 December, 2011 - 08:08 · Arab States
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www.thisweekinpalestine.com

Dalia Othman, a researcher and human rightsi activist, reports on a new initiative in Ramallah, Palestina, that uses online mapping and mobile phone technology to allow women to combat sexual harassment in the streets.

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It's time to stand up and be counted

Grady Johnson
Grady Johnson on 14 December, 2011 - 07:39
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Grady Johnson is a writer and researcher focused on issues of freedom of expression. He is a major contributor to APC's Internet Rights Monitor and the new "Connect your rights: Internet rights are human rights" campaign. Grady also acts as GenderIT.org English Language Editor. He is based in Ottawa, Canada.
GenderIT.org

If we want to tackle the problem of gender-based violence online, we need to develop a strong evidence base, argues Grady Johnson in this article. At the risk of revisiting old traumas, we need women to document the scope of the problem, so that the gravity of the situation can no longer be denied. Most of all, we need good numbers if we hope to make good policies.

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