CYBER VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS
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panoply of educational and<br />
learning tools. There is no<br />
situation in which a violent<br />
act should be accepted or<br />
condoned as a result of poor<br />
personal judgement and social<br />
behaviour (“she should not<br />
have been dressed that way/<br />
consumed alcohol/ invited the<br />
act upon herself”).<br />
“Young people are the brokers,<br />
traders and advisors of this<br />
new knowledge and their voice<br />
provides a bridge between what<br />
they know and understand, and<br />
what researchers need to know<br />
and understand to properly inform<br />
policy and practice.”<br />
define harmful content as<br />
anything organising real world<br />
violence, theft, or property<br />
destruction, or that directly<br />
inflicts emotional distress on a<br />
specific private individual (e.g.,<br />
bullying).” 71<br />
Digital Literacy and<br />
Citizenship and Gender<br />
Relevant and Friendly<br />
Content<br />
• In May 2013, following<br />
‘Cyberbullying Through the New Media:<br />
There are a growing number<br />
Findings from an International Network’<br />
a week-long campaign<br />
of initiatives that address digital<br />
by Women, Action and<br />
literacy and citizenship, and<br />
the Media, the Everyday Sexism Project and the to varying degrees cover topics such as online safety<br />
activist Soraya Chemaly demanded the removal and information literacy. These include efforts from<br />
of supposedly humorous content endorsing rape civil society like Telecentre.org and ITU which has<br />
and domestic violence. Facebook responded<br />
reached 1 million women with a digital literacy course<br />
to concerted protests over content promoting<br />
and Common Sense Media which designed curricula<br />
violence against women, but only after fifteen<br />
that teaches media literacy as well as digital safety<br />
companies, including Nissan, threatened to pull and smarts. The UK initiative iRights provides detailed<br />
their advertisements if Facebook did not remove guidance on online safety, security, right to remove,<br />
profiles that glorified or trivialized violence against right to digital literacy including the ability to critique<br />
women. 70 The company in turn determined to<br />
technologies and understand how to negotiate social<br />
update its policies on hate speech and increase norms. The private sector has also taken important<br />
accountability of content creators and train staff steps in raising awareness – such as the recent GSMA<br />
to be more responsive to complaints, marking a report on Accelerating Digital Literacy for Women – and<br />
victory for women’s rights activists. “We prohibit training as with the Intel She Will Connect initiative which<br />
content deemed to be directly harmful, but allow builds women’s digital literacy and includes modules on<br />
content that is offensive or controversial. We<br />
digital safety and footprints. There is also a role that the<br />
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