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Navigating Policy Designs: A Case for Specific and Broad Policies to Counter New Forms of Technology-Facilitated Violence
By Aitana Garcia Domingo
Regulating new digital dangers can be challenging. This is especially true when they are unforeseeable at the time of drafting the policy. Aitana Garcia Domingo explores two policy designs that can potentially help in countering tech-facilitated violence, and discusses limitations that both these designs pose to their successful implementation.
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Gendering of Development Data in India: Post-Trans Act 2019
By Brindaalakshmi. K
Against much uproar from the transgender community, the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act 2019 was enacted by the Government of India in December 2019 to recognise and protect the rights of transgender persons. Opposition from the transgender community was due to several problematic provisions in the statute including the demand for surgical intervention…
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Policy recommendations from FIRN research
By Feminist Internet Research Network
In this piece, as a way of forward looking and forging a radical possibilities, FIRN team has compiled evidence based research recommendations for multiple stakeholders in this field to recognise, address, and prevent online gender based violence across our communities. We also invite these stakeholders to reimagine and reconstruct an internet that is a safe place for all people, especially…
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The holistic approach: Exploring women’s online freedom of expression and freedom of assembly in the Democratic Republic of Congo
By Bulanda Tapiwa Nkhowani
In this piece, authors Rebecca Ryakitimbo, Jean Mwimbi and Bulanda Tapiwa Nkhowani engage with the experiences of online gender based violence (OGBV) against women journalists, women human rights defenders and everyday women in Democratic Republic of Congo. They advocate for a holistic approach in framing, understanding and analysing the impact of technology facilitated gender based violence…
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Examining the Digital Exclusion of Women and Online Gender-Based Violence in Sudan
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Through the article, two feminist researchers from Sudan show us the ways in which online and offline experiences of violence are connected. The research investigates varied aspects of patriarchal control that forbids women’s access to technological devices and free usage of it. At the same time, they trace the impact of complicated political and social dynamics including economic sanctions…
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ALL OF A SUDDEN: Research on Digital Violence against LGBTQIA+ communities in Türkiye
By Damla Umut Uzun
The piece written by Damla Umut Uzun explores the research on digital violence against LGBTQIA+ users in Turkiye. By sharing experiences of violence, their trajectory online, the piece aims to understand the dynamics of online gender-based violence for this understudied community within the country where there is scarce protection with a lot of political driven hate against them.
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The Left Out Project: The case for an online gender-based violence framework inclusive of transgender, non-binary and gender-diverse experiences
By Nyx McLean
This piece articulates the need for a deeper understanding of online violence to ensure that experiences of TNBGD people can be included and addressed. The research also nudges digital feminist activists, researchers, and advocates to intentionally design the work inclusive of LGBTQIA+ communities, and extend the idea of online violence to understand what happens within the LGBTQIA+ community…
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From Streets to Screens: How Digitisation is Transforming Sex Work in Pakistan
By Hira Nadeem
Sex workers in Pakistan moved to the internet to seek clientele as the famous red light district in Pakistan faced government crackdown and cultural oppression. But how has their experience been working through online platforms? Hira Nadeem speaks to sex workers who made the shift.
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Women in the Era of Artificial Intelligence: Increased Targeting and Growing Challenges
By Dr. Nour Naim
AI expert, Nour Naim from Gaza, details the particular challenges of gender and racial bias in algorithms and datasets. In her piece, she presents an overview of important and emerging trends in the movement for trustworthy AI, as well as activist responses to these inequalities.
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Feminists in the Panopticon: How Surveillance Capitalism Captures Feminist Movements
By Nadine Moawad
In this article, Nadz Moawad invites you to use this AI hype to think of its economic undercurrent, surveillance capitalism, as equally urgent. Thinking about AI needs futurology, but thinking about surveillance economies requires history. They make the argument that radical movements, feminists especially, have been captured by this new economy and that a migration…