CYBER VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS
cyber_violence_gender report
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Victim Case details and type of Violence Age of<br />
victim<br />
Location<br />
Date<br />
Marta 2<br />
Victim of technology-based violence as revenge<br />
for her decision to end her marriage. Her USbased<br />
ex-husband used fake Facebook and<br />
Twitter accounts. Marta highlights the fact that<br />
intermediaries’ policies on gender violence are<br />
not clear and were of no help in her attempts to<br />
have the false pages taken down.<br />
32 Colombia 2013<br />
Anita Sarkeesian<br />
feminist public<br />
speaker, media<br />
critic and<br />
blogger/ founder<br />
of Feminist<br />
Frequency<br />
Endured a campaign of sexist harassment<br />
including rape and death threats, personal<br />
webpages and social media were hacked, and<br />
personal information was distributed. She was<br />
sent images of herself being raped by video<br />
game characters. Also a target of Gamergate.<br />
33 Canada/USA 2013<br />
Ashley Judd<br />
actor<br />
In response to tweets about NBA March<br />
Madness, Judd received death and rape threats<br />
47 USA 2015<br />
Stella Creasy<br />
UK Labor MP<br />
and<br />
Caroline Criado-<br />
Perez – journalist<br />
Sustained social media harassment, which led to<br />
changes to Twitter rules<br />
38 & 32 UK 2014<br />
Serena 3<br />
Public violence of a fake Facebook profile by an<br />
64 Bosnia and<br />
2013<br />
ex-husband<br />
Herzegoniva<br />
1 http://www.genderit.org/sites/default/upload/case_studies_rdc2_1.pdf<br />
2 http://www.genderit.org/sites/default/upload/case_studies_col4_1.pdf<br />
3 http://www.genderit.org/sites/default/upload/case_studies_byh1_1.pdf<br />
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