CYBER VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS

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