Review of Progress by Tech Companies
AccessNow (2021) What you need to know about the Facebook Papers, available at https://www.accessnow.org/facebook-papers-what-you-need-to-know/
Centre for Countering Digital Hate (2022) Hidden Hate: How Instagram fails to act on 9 in 10 reports of misogyny in DMs
Katsaros, M., Yang, K., & Fratamico, L. (2022). Reconsidering Tweets: Intervening during Tweet Creation Decreases Offensive Content
Ofcom (2022) Ofcom urges tech firms to keep women safer online, available at https://www.ofcom.org.uk/news-centre/2022/ofcom-urges-tech-firms-to-keep-women-safer-online
PBS (2021) Facebook’s language gaps allow terrorist content and hate speech to thrive, available at https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/facebooks-language-gaps-allow-terrorist-content-and-hate-speech-to-thrive
Refuge (2021) Unsocial Spaces: make online spaces safer for women and girls
Ultra Violet (2021) Putting the onus on women is a PR stunt – the platforms are the problem, available at https://weareultraviolet.org/putting-the-onus-on-women-is-a-pr-stunt-the-platforms-are-the-problem-2/
Wall Street Journal (2021) The Facebook Files, available at https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-facebook-files-11631713039
Greater Accountability for OGBV
Association for Progressive Communications (2018) Providing a gender lens in the digital age: APC Submission to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights’ Working Group on Business and Human Rights
Centre for International Governance Innovation (2021) Transparency Is Key to Curbing the Power of Big Tech, available at https://www.cigionline.org/articles/transparency-is-key-to-curbing-the-power-of-big-tech/
End Violence Against Women, Glitch (2021) The Ripple Effect: Covid-19 and the epidemic of online abuse
European Parliamentary Research Service (2021) Combating gender-based violence: Cyber violence
eSafety (2020) Children and technology-facilitated abuse in domestic and family violence situations
eSafety (2022) Women in the Spotlight: Women’s experiences with online abuse in their working lives
Fairplay (2022) Global platforms, partial protections: Design discriminations on social media platforms
Herbert Smith Freehills (2021) Online Harms: What is the global state of play?, available at https://www.herbertsmithfreehills.com/insight/online-harms-what-is-the-global-state-of-play#Map
KICTANet (2020) Online gender-based violence in times of COVID-19
Social Development Direct (2020) Addressing Gender-Based Violence and Harassment: Emerging Good Practice for the Private Sector
Suzor N. (2018) Human Rights by Design: The Responsibilities of Social Media Platforms to Address Gender-Based Violence Online
Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (2022) A Ten-Point Strategy Towards Ending Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence in Africa
UN Women (2020) Online and ICT facilitated violence against women and girls during COVID-19
Wired (2021) Facebook Is Everywhere; Its Moderation Is Nowhere Close, available at https://www.wired.com/story/facebooks-global-reach-exceeds-linguistic-grasp/
Case studies
Chayn (2022) Orbits: A global field guide to advance intersectional, survivor-centred, and trauma-informed interventions to technology-facilitated gender-based violence
National Democratic Institute (2019) Tweets That Chill: Analyzing Online Violence Against Women in Politics
Plan International (2022) The Truth Gap: How misinformation and disinformation online affect the lives, learning and leadership of girls and young women
Ultra Violet (2021) Social Media Report Card, available at https://weareultraviolet.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Social-media-report-card.pdf
OGBV in the Global South
Africa (Central, Eastern, Western, Southern)
Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria (2022) Understanding Online Gender-based Violence in Southern Africa
Collaboration on International ICT Policy for East and Southern Africa (2020) In Search of Safe Spaces Online: A Research Summary
Kakande, A., Achieng, G., Iyer, N., Nyamwire, B., Nabulega, S., and Mwendwa, I. (2021) Amplified Abuse – Report on Online Violence Against Women in the 2021 Uganda General Elections
Nanfuka, J (2019) Silent No More! Africa’s Feminist Voices Are Growing Louder, available at https://cipesa.org/2019/11/silent-no-more-africas-feminist-voices-are-growing-louder-2/
Neema Iyer, Bonnita Nyamwire and Sandra Nabulega (2020) Alternate Realities, Alternate Internets – African Feminist Research for a Feminist Internet
Plan International (2020) Abuse and harassment driving girls off Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, available at https://plan-international.org/news/2020/10/05/abuse-and-harassment-driving-girls-off-facebook-instagram-and-twitter/
Asia Pacific (Central, South, Northeastern, Southeastern Asia, Oceania)
Amnesty International (2020) Troll Patrol India: Exposing Online Abuse Faced by Women Politicians in India
Bytes for All (2014) Technology Driven Violence Against Women – Country Report Pakistan
CARE Bangladesh (2016) Report of Expert Consultation Responding to Violence against Women and Girls in the Cyber Age
Debarati Halder (2017) Revenge Porn Against Women and the Applicability of Therapeutic Jurisprudence: A Comparative Analysis of Regulations in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh
Feminism in India (2021) “Violence” Online In India: Cybercrimes Against Women & Minorities on Social Media
Hamara Internet (2017) Measuring Pakistani Women’s Experiences of Online Violence: A quantitative research study on online gender-based harassment in Pakistan
IT for Change (2019) Born digital, Born free? A socio-legal study on young women’s experiences of online violence in South India
IT for Change (2019) Getting it right online: Young women’s negotiations in the face of cyberviolence in Karnataka
IT for Change (2019) Walking on Eggshells: A study on gender justice and women’s struggles in Malayali cyberspace
Musharraf S. et al. (2019) General and ICT Self-Efficacy in Different Participants Roles in Cyberbullying/ Victimization Among Pakistani University Students
Nova et al. (2019) Online sexual harassment over anonymous social media in Bangladesh
Randhawa S. (2010) Cambodia, Malaysia, Pakistan and the Philippines: Cross-country Study on Violence against Women and Information Communication Technologies
USAID (2022) Landscape Analysis of Technology-Facilitated Gender Based Violence – Findings from the Asia Region
Latin America/ Caribbean
AccessNow (2021) Los retos que deja el teletrabajo respecto a la violencia de genero
Aurora Proyecto (2020) Chile y la violencia de genero en Internet: experiencias de mujeres cis, trans y no binaries.
Derechos Digitales (2022) Covid-19 and the increase of domestic violence against women in Latin America: A digital rights perspective
Fundacion Multitudes (2022) Encuesta sobre la Desinformation en la Convencion Constitucional
Fundacion Multitudes (2022) Survey on Disinformation to Women Parliamentarians of Chile
OAS (2021) Violencia de género en línea contra niñas y mujeres: Guía de conceptos básicos, herramientas de seguridad digital y estrategias de respuesta
Ochoa P. P. (2017) Reporte De La Situación De América Latina Sobre La Violencia De Género Ejercida Por Medios Electrónicos
