Dienstag, 17. Mai 2016

CYBER VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS: A WORLD-WIDE WAKE-UP CALL

http://www.unwomen.org/~/media/headquarters/attachments/sections/library/publications/2015/cyber_violence_gender%20report.pdf?v=1&d=20150924T154259

Millions of women and girls around the world are
subjected to deliberate violence because of their gender.
Violence against women and girls (VAWG) knows no
boundaries, cutting across borders, race, culture and
income groups, profoundly harming victims, people
around them, and society as a whole.
1
The growing reach of the Internet, the rapid spread of
mobile information and communications technologies
(ICTs) and the wide diffusion of social media have
presented new opportunities and enabled various efforts
to address VAWG.
2
However, they are also being used as
tools to inflict harm on women and girls. Cyber-VAWG is
emerging as a global problem with serious implications for
societies and economies around the world. The statistics
pose risks to the peace and prosperity for all enshrined
in the Charter of the United Nations, and, in par ticular, to
the goals of inclusive, sustainable development that puts
gender equality and the empowerment of women as key
to its achievement.
Writing this repor t has, in some sense, been a race to
keep up with breaking news, as girl after girl and woman
after woman, has come forward to expose physical and
verbal attacks on them: teenage girls driven to suicide by
online trolling
; an airline passenger using her cell phone
to record and report physical and sexual harassment from
a male co-passenger; an actress publicly responding to
targeted
online hate speech
against her; a former Major
League Baseball pitcher using
doxing
3
to identify people
responsible for "Twitter troll" posts with obscene, sexually
explicit comments about his teenage daughter.

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