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Femicide Volume 11: Cyber Crimes against Women and Girls

20/05/2019 — Studies, Analyses, Reports
This volume  again compiles strategies, best practices and innovative approaches, serves as a platform for, and provides practical support to anybody who wishes to prevent, investigate, prosecute, and punish VAW and gender-related killings of women and girls, i.e. femicide. The second section...
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Global - online violence

Online and ICT-faciliated VAW | Vienna Femicide Team

22/03/2019 — Studies, Analyses, Reports
Online and ICT-facilitated violence against women is a relatively new phenomenon. The scare data estimates that 23% of women have experienced online abuse or harassment at least once in their life. Saide Mobayed provides a short overview, on occasion of a symposium on this topic, held in November...
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Global - online violence

2018 Symposium on online and ICT-faciliated VAW | Vienna Femicide Team

01/09/2018 — Studies, Analyses, Reports
On the 2018 International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (25th of November), the Femicide Team of the ACUNS Vienna Liaison Office organized a symposium on cybercrimes commited against women: "Gender Inequality in the Digital Era: Addressing Online and ICT-Facilitated...
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Austria - online violence

Panel discussion on cyber crime against women and girls on November 26, 2018 | ACUNS Vienna

26/11/2018 — News
The purpose of this event is to expose the social and psychological damage and long-term effects that Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) facilitated violence against women inflict upon its victims, including online harassment by strangers and ex-boyfriends, cyber-bullying, revenge-...
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Global - online violence

2018 Report on online violence by UN Special Rapporteur on VAW | UN OHCHR

18/06/2018 — Studies, Analyses, Reports
 In her report to the Human Rights Council, the UN Special Rapporteur on VAW, Dubravka Šimonović, analyses online violence and violence facilitated by information and communications technology (ICT) against women and girls from a human rights perspective. The report covers key definitions,...
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