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Tackling Online Gender-Based Violence and Abuse

Tackling Online Gender-Based Violence and Abuse

Women and girls disproportionately face violence and abuse online. As part of our commitment to tackle all forms of digital inequality, the Web Foundation is convening a series of consultations and policy design workshops focused on online abuse that targets women because of their different and intersecting identities. This initiative brings together tech companies and women from across civil society to gather evidence of online abuse and work collaboratively to create concrete policy and product solutions to address online gender-based violence. Read more

Tackling Online Gender-Based Violence and Abuse

Women and girls disproportionately face violence and abuse online. As part of our commitment to tackle all forms of digital inequality, the Web Foundation is convening a series of consultations and policy design workshops focused on online abuse that targets women because of their different and intersecting identities. This initiative brings together tech companies and women from across civil society to gather evidence of online abuse and work collaboratively to create concrete policy and product solutions to address online gender-based violence. Read more

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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.