CYBER VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS
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outed to the local police force, the closest officer<br />
is dispatched to respond and he takes notes with<br />
pen and paper.” 77<br />
• Encouragingly, there are signs of positive<br />
developments in some countries. Dutch law<br />
enforcement is stepping up its efforts to<br />
combat cybercrime. Every regional police<br />
force in the country will train their detectives<br />
in digital investigative techniques. More ICT<br />
specialists and external experts will be recruited.<br />
Specialized digital detectives will join national and<br />
international investigative teams. A “national digital<br />
investigations action program” was established in<br />
July 2014, with a budget of EUR 1.4 million. Law<br />
enforcement however estimated that it needs EUR<br />
30 million a year to effectively intensify the battle<br />
against cybercrime.<br />
4.3 Safeguards: working with industry<br />
and users to make the Internet<br />
VAWG-safe<br />
Over the years, traditional VAW safety measures have<br />
evolved to include women’s shelters, crisis centres, help<br />
lines and education. In light of the new challenges in the<br />
dynamic ICT environment, the digital world also requires<br />
safety measures, and in order to keep up with a rapidly<br />
changing Internet, this will necessarily require resources,<br />
attention and active participation of industry, civil society<br />
and governments.<br />
Free speech requires constant vigilance – by everyone<br />
who uses the Internet. What is the scope of safeguards<br />
needed to be integrated with Internet use?<br />
When the safety of women is discussed, the focus<br />
is often on how women should be protected. But<br />
protection is not the same thing as security. The<br />
question should be what women need to safely<br />
participate in society.<br />
Kvinna Till Kvinna Foundation<br />
Rima Athar and the APC team in their 2015 report 78<br />
conclude that many Terms of Service (ToS) are more<br />
about legal obligations, and that “certain issues get<br />
explicit attention from corporations in their written policies<br />
and redress mechanisms (such as copyright infringement,<br />
child exploitation, financial fraud and extortion), but others<br />
do not (including violence against women, gender-based<br />
hate and other human rights violations).”<br />
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