🌎Online Gender-based violence is a global phenomenon and a violation of human rights. Perpetrators of intimate partner violence, stalking, and sexual harassment are now using digital technologies to harm women and girls.
In our latest radio talk shows, we discussed:
✅The significance of gender inclusivity in technology and its impact on women's empowerment.
✅The current state of OGBV in Uganda and its effect on victims.
✅How women can protect themselves online and report OGBV cases.
✅Introduction to WOUGNET’s OGBV web portal and how it provides legal, technical, and psychological support.
✅Importance of multi-stakeholder collaboration to ensure a safer digital space for women and marginalized groups.
To combat OGBV, it is high time to build leadership to engage with national policymakers, judges, lawyers, and other key actors in identifying remedies that may be available in current laws and regulations and, where needed, developing new policies that seek protection from OGBV.⚖️
We must enhance women’s ability to influence internet and telecommunications businesses, such as social networking platforms, web hosting companies, and mobile phone operators, to develop corporate practices and policies that respect women’s rights.
🔔Additionally, women must be adequately represented in policymaking and standard-setting processes, ensuring that policies and standards prioritize user safety and security.
This may include an independent regulatory mechanism, system-wide removal of harmful content, and other measures.
📣Campaigning is necessary to create an online environment and culture that affirms everyone’s right to safety and security. Such a culture would not tolerate behaviors and practices harmful or violent toward women and girls.
We need a blend of criminal, civil, and administrative processes, ensuring state obligations and responsible internet intermediaries, along with the "5 Ps": prevention, protection, prosecution, punishment, and provision of redress and reparation.🔊
Enabel
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