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HerSafeSpace Digital Safety Manual
This manual is for informational and educational purposes only. It does not offer legal, medical, or psychological advice and should not replace professional support where needed. While care has been taken to ensure accuracy, HerSafeSpace is not liable for any outcomes resulting from the use of this material. Mention of tools or services does not imply endorsement...
Understanding Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence in Central and West Africa
We live in an era often described as postdigital, where digital technology has become so embedded in daily life that it is routine, abundant, and almost invisible, no longer experienced as separate or novel2. While the benefits of digital technologies in advancing health...
Methodological Report on Gender-Based Violence Database Development for Central and West Africa
Gender-based violence is a type that has become a global phenomenon, impacting both developed and developing countries. Generally, GBV is described as harm or a threat inflicted on a person due to male-female power imbalances entrenched within society. While gender-based violence is also inflicted on men and boys, women and girls face the greatest threat...
Power and Influence in Addressing Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence in Nigeria
In our increasingly digital world, the transformative power of technology brings with it not only opportunity but also unprecedented challenges especially for those most vulnerable to harm. Among the gravest of these challenges is Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence (TFGBV), a rapidly evolving threat that transcends borders and societal structures...
BBYDI SAFERNET DIGITAL CHAMPION SAFELY GUIDEBOOK
My Mummy and Daddy got me my first interner-enabled device, an Android phone, when I turned ten. They wanted me to be able to learn a lot faster and become digitally literate like other young people around the world...
Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence in Nigeria Mapping Harms, Gaps, and Pathways to Justice
The rise of Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence (TFGBV) stands as one of the most pressing yet under-acknowledged challenges confronting women and marginalised groups in Nigeria...
Exposing Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence in an Era of Generative AI
“Your opinion doesn’t matter, anyway” is the response given by a generative AI chatbot when testing the strength ofits guardrails that are supposed to prevent technology facilitated gender-based violence. It is one of the experiments conducted for this report to anticipate the impact of generative AI on the safety of women and girls in this new environment...
Technology Facilitated Gender-Based Violence: Developing a shared research agenda
“Technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TFGBV) has been on the agenda of feminist technology experts and researchers for many years. Thankfully, an understanding of the importance, pervasiveness, and profound impact of TFGBV on gender equality and the open and peaceful functioning of democracies is gaining traction among global leaders and others working in the field of VAW in off-line spaces...
Guidance on the Safe and Ethical Use of Technology to Address Gender-based Violence and Harmful Practices
This is the short version of forthcoming guidance that will be comprehensive and refer to work at the intersection of gender-based violence (GBV) and harmful practices (HP), data and technology. This summary document is a brief overview of the opportunities, risks and insights relating to potential steps towards creating safe and ethical technology that supports existing GBV/HP programming...
Global Call to Action to Address Technology-facilitated Gender-based Violence
The present Global Call to Action reflects the collective insights, ideas and expertise shared during a Roundtable on TF GBV organised alongside the 68th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)...
Disrupting the Continuum of Violence: Combatting Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence
In today’s digital age, Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence (TFGBV) is becoming an increasingly prevalent and dangerous form of violence against women and girls. As communication technologies advance, so too do the means for perpetrators to harass, intimidate, and violate the privacy of women...
Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence as an Attack on Women’s Public Participation
In 2023, Transform conducted a foundational landscape assessment that reviewed the global evidence of TFGBV against women in politics and public life and its implications for women’s public and political participation....
