Feminist talk
Securing the Future of African Women and Girls Online
The internet has become a mirror of women's grim reality in Africa, where they are subjected to various forms of violence daily. Chioma Agwuegbo discusses the situation of online gender based violence in the continent while envisioning a different reality that secures the digital futures of African women and girls.
Publication
The machine that fosters shame: The weaponisation of sexuality in anti-gender anti-democracy disinformation
Our aim with this paper is to explore the specific location of sexuality in disinformation campaigns targeting those standing up to patriarchal and authoritarian regimes of social and political power, going beyond “gender”.
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[Research] From theory to practice – building and testing a framework for definitions of online gender-based violence and other terms
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[RESEARCH] Perpetrators of gender-based violence online – Roadmap for investigations
Through an actionable research roadmap, the project seeks to address knowledge gaps in understanding perpetrators of online gender-based violence.
Feminist talk
Third launch of FIRN project: Global South feminist perspective into technology-facilitated gender-based violence
Members of the network will undertake a feminist internet research that provides substantial evidence to drive change in policy and law and in the discourse around internet rights. The broader objective is to ensure that the needs of women, and gender diverse and queer people are considered in internet policy discussions and decision-making.
In depth
Navigating Policy Designs: A Case for Specific and Broad Policies to Counter New Forms of Technology-Facilitated Violence
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.
Feminist talk
Pakistani Women’s Hopes of Breaking Silence and of Creating Discourse Online
Pakistani women have always struggled to navigate public spheres given the scrutiny and violence that they are subjected to. But they're now fighting back by taking their space in the online public spaces that enables them to access an audience on their own terms. Yet, it comes at a cost.
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Trans-sitting through Life
Trans-sitting through Life is a toolkit designed as a board game to support diversity and inclusion trainers and community workers with their transgender persons related sensitisation programmes and efforts. This game is designed to provide the players with an experience of the lived realities of transgender persons as they wade through different aspects of their life.
