CYBER VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS
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5<br />
A VIEW TO ENDING<br />
<strong>CYBER</strong> VAWG THROUGH<br />
PARTNERSHIPS <strong>AND</strong><br />
COALITIONS<br />
Working with platforms that provide for and enable<br />
meaningful participation in policy discussion and decision<br />
making by and for women will be an important step<br />
to build a strong foundation. Global multi-stakeholder<br />
processes can also provide collaborative space to discuss<br />
complexities in policies and legal debates that surround<br />
cyber VAWG, such as questions of balancing safety of<br />
women from violence on the one hand and freedom of<br />
expression on the other hand, or question of Internet<br />
intermediaries liability. 111<br />
The majority of big and small Internet companies can be<br />
expected to support a system of checks and balances;<br />
that the power for investigations into harassment, threats<br />
of physical safety, sexual violence, kidnapping (etc.)<br />
must ultimately lie with courts and law enforcement;<br />
and that therefore laws that direct companies in their<br />
responsibilities are necessary. However, the waters<br />
start to muddy when it comes to compliance and<br />
prosecuting. 112 Some examples include:<br />
• The Inter-parliamentary Task Force on Internet<br />
Hate passed a formal resolution establishing<br />
the Anti-Cyber-hate Working group made up<br />
of industry representatives, nongovernmental<br />
organisations, academics and others to ‘build best<br />
practices for understanding, reporting upon and<br />
responding to Internet hate”<br />
• The world’s largest regional security organization,<br />
the Organization for Security and Co-operation in<br />
Europe (OSCE) promotes comprehensive security<br />
through conflict prevention, crisis management<br />
and post-conflict rehabilitation. The OSCE<br />
addresses VAW as a serious obstacle to the<br />
realization of gender equality. The persistence of<br />
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