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JASS (Just Associates)

Website: http://www.justassociates.org

JASS (Just Associates) is an international feminist organization founded in 2002 driven by the partners and initiatives of its regional networks in Mesoamerica, Southern Africa and Southeast Asia. JASS is dedicated to strengthening and mobilizing women’s voice, visibility and collective organizing power to change the norms, institutions and policies that perpetuate inequality and violence.

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Opportunities for Ecuadorian women to connect their rights online

Flavia Fascendini
Flavia Fascendini on 5 April, 2012 - 10:13
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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

In the interview with Flavia Fascendini of GenderIT.org, Valeria Betancourt, manager of APC’s Communications and Information Policy Programme, argues that the incorporation of knowledge transfer through technology, connectivity for the information and knowledge society, and finally, inclusion and the guarantee of human rights within the broad strategies of Ecuador’s National Plan for Good Living for 2009-2013 represents an excellent opportunity for a structural consideration of women’s rights in relation to the internet.

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Brazil, Magaly Pazello: “We have no specific debate on women's internet rights”

Flavia Fascendini
Flavia Fascendini on 5 April, 2012 - 10:11
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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

Magaly Pazello, activist and specialist researcher in gender iand information and communication technologies, recently joined the team that developed the Brazil report for the UN's Universal Periodic Review. In discussion with Flavia Fascendini, the editor of GenderIT.orgi, Pazello confirmed that there is still a great deal to do with regards to the connection between women's rightsi and a broad understanding of the interneti.

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Submission to the Universal Periodic Review of Brazil

APC, Instituto Nupef, and Sexuality Policy Watch
APC, Instituto Nupef, and Sexuality Policy Watch on 3 April, 2012 - 23:40
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This joint submission has been prepared by the APC Women’s Networkingi Support Programme in consultation with Instituto Nupef and is endorsed by Sexuality Policyi Watch. The submission focuses on human rightsi and the interneti in Brazil. It highlights areas where Brazil is doing well, specific areas of concern, and makes five recommendations for follow-up and implementation. The submission focuses on the women’s human rights to sexual and reproductive health information and citizens’ rights to free expression and privacyi.

 
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APC's submission to the Universal Periodic Review of Ecuador

APC, CIESPAL and Radialistas Apasionadas y Apasionados
APC, CIESPAL and Radialistas Apasionadas y Apasionados on 3 April, 2012 - 23:08
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APC’s submission for Ecuador to the UPR process, with support from CIESPAL and Radialistas Apasionadas y Apasionados, focuses on issues of access to the interneti and highlights the critical importance of the internet for human rightsi, as well as social and economic development. Although the first UPR of Ecuador did not include reference to internet-related human rights issues, the events of 2011 showed that the UPR must include the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms on the internet, particularly freedom of expressioni and freedom of associationi.

 
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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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Who's gonna track me?

Flavia Fascendini
Flavia Fascendini on 13 September, 2011 - 21:37
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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

Flavia Fascendini looks at the report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rightsi defenders -- which, for the first time in history, focuses on the situation of women's human rights defenders. Drawing on the report's findings, she talks to South-East Asian women's activists about the unique security risks they face online.

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Brazil: An ethnographic approach – mapping sexuality on Orkut

Flavia Fascendini
Flavia Fascendini on 29 July, 2011 - 10:23
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Flavia is a social communicator. Since January 2007, she works as the GenderIT.org Spanish/Portuguese site editor.

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.

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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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Internet regulations can benefit from cross-sectoral conversations, says Marina Maria at the Human Rights Council

KF
KF on 8 June, 2011 - 16:14
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Marina Maria, a member of the Brazil EroTICsi research team, was one of the panellists of the 'Internet rights iare human rightsi' event co-organized by the APC with the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs at the Human Rights Council’s 17th session in Geneva on June 3. Due to time limitations, she was not able to present her paper in full at the event. GenderIT.orgi is publishing her complete presentation in which she provides interesting insights in recent policyi debates on interneti regulationi in Brazil and how human right framework's was brought back to the debate thanks to the intervention of local activists.

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