#16DaysOfActivism 2020
The 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence is an annual international campaign that kicks off on 25 November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, and runs until 10 December, Human Rights Day. It was started by activists at the inaugural Women’s Global Leadership Institute in 1991 and continues to be coordinated each year by the Center for Women’s Global Leadership. Our theme for the #16DaysofActivism this year is “ Online Harassment and Online Violence Against Women” under the global theme of "Orange the World: Fund, Respond, Prevent, Collect!" Online harassment and online violence is most of the time invisible but can have a serious psychological and psycho-social consequence on women and girls. Online harassment can include bullying, trolling, cyberstalking, defamation, hate speech, public shaming, amongst other offences. While laws against online harassment are yet to catch -up, crime rates are on the rise everywhere. ‘ Addressing online violence will require collective efforts from individuals, corporations, and governments.
Practical and Moral Side of Women’s Digital Rights to Privacy
A study published by the Data & Society Research Institute (New York, United States) in 2016 found that 1 in 25 Americans are either threatened with or victims of nonconsensual image sharing, or “revenge porn,” and that women under 30, people of color and members of the LGBTQ community are much more likely than men to…
Misogynistic Hate Speech Towards Women Online: A Short Summary
With the ever-increasing population online on social media apps such as Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, women have become victims of online harassment. Women often experience speech that may incite hatred, violence, harm and all of which are often highly gendered and highly sexualised. Though many social media platforms have policies in place to protect groups from…
Cyber Crime Against Women During COVID-19 Lockdown
There’s a warning for those going online for intimacy just because strict physical-distancing norms are in place to slow the coronavirus spread. Cyber crimes against women and sextortion are on the rise worldwide. Cases of blackmailers laying honey traps and hacking private images and videos are on the rise. Cyber scammers have made fake profiles…
