Tackling Online Gender-Based Violence and Abuse

“Women shouldn’t be expected to pay this cost just to participate.”: What we learned from our online gender-based violence consultations

October 6, 2021

Online gender-based violence and abuse threatens to hamper the web’s potential to be a platform that amplifies gender equality and spearheads positive change, and instead cause it to remainRead more

“Prioritise the safety of women”: Open letter to CEOs of Facebook, Google, TikTok & Twitter

July 1, 2021

At the Generation Equality Forum in Paris, the CEOs of Facebook, Google, TikTok and Twitter make unprecedented Read more

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“Women shouldn’t be expected to pay this cost just to participate.” Online Gender-Based Violence and Abuse: Consultation Briefing

October 6, 2021

Too often our digital world amplifies existing violence, abuse and discrimination that women and girls face offline. This can silence, discredit and censor women’s voices online. If thisRead more

Online Gender-Based Violence Policy Design Workshops: Outcomes and Recommendations

June 28, 2021

As part of our commitment to tackle digital inequality, we recently convened a series of policy design workshops to co-create product solutions to online gender-based violence and abuse. TheRead more

More about this project

As the Covid-19 pandemic has driven more of our lives online, women and girls continue to experience increased forms of online gender-based violence, racist and sexist abuse, doxxing, and other harms that can violate their rights to free expression, non-discrimination, privacy, and the right to live free from violence. Women from marginalised communities including LGBTQ+ people, women of colour, and Black women in particular, are often disproportionately targeted with online abuse, which risks further silencing their voices online.The Web Foundation is convening a series of four consultations that brings together tech companies, civil society organisations, digital rights experts and women in public life from around the world to engage in constructive dialogues on how to solve online gender-based violence and abuse. Following the consultations, the Web Foundation will host a first-of-its-kind series of policy design workshops to provide a space for participants and tech companies to co-create solutions to online gender-based violence using an innovative, human-centered approach.

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