Gender.IT, New Edition
Credit Fabricio Caiazza
A new edition of Gender.IT – the gender and ICT policy monitor by APC WNSP – examines how violence against women (VAW) affects our privacy rights in the digital age, with reports from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Pakistan, South Africa and Argentina.
VAW survivors often experience intrusions into their privacy from their partners, spouses or the State. Moreover, privacy does not always work to women’ s advantage.
Family-centred approaches to privacy impose modesty and domestic isolation on women and make it hard to enforce domestic violence as a crime. So how have ICTs shifted where we see the line between what is private, and what is public?
How much privacy are women comfortable to give up in order to protect themselves from abusive behaviour online? Are national laws ready to deal with the situation when women are not able to leave a violent relationship because their partner has intimate photographs or video clips of them?
These are some of the questions examined by GenderIT.org‘s writers in the third edition in a row that connects ICTs, VAW and Millennium Development Goal Three (MDG3). This edition also features the work of some of APC’s MDG3 partners and includes a new GenderIT podcast and 16×16 multimedia presentations.
The edition is part of APC WNSP´s MDG3 project Take Back the Tech! to eliminate violence against women.
You can contact Flavia, Katerina and Sonia from the GenderIT.org team at genderit@apcwomen.org.
