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PRIVACY & VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
Posted Mon 26 Jul 2010
A new edition examines how violence against
women (VAW)i affects
our privacyi rights in
the digital age. VAW survivors often experience intrusions into their privacy
from their partners, spouses or the Statei.
Moreover, privacy does not always work to women' s advantage. Family-centred
approaches to privacy impose modesty and domestic isolation on women and make
it hard to enforce domestic violence as a crime. So how have ICTs shifted where
we see the line between what is private, and what is public? How much privacy
are women comfortable to give up in order to protect themselves from abusive
behaviour online? Are national laws ready to deal with the situation when women
are not able to leave a violent relationship because their partner has intimate
photographs or video clips of them? These are some of the questions examined by
GenderIT.orgi's writers
in the third edition in a row that connects ICTs, VAW and Millennium
Development Goal Three (MDG3i). The
edition is part of APC WNSP´s MDG3 project Take Back the Tech!i to
eliminate violence against women. "
With this edition we also bring you a new look GenderIT.orgi. The new format was motivated by our efforts to engage more with GenderIT.org readers and to provide more space for networkingi and collaboration. We hope you like it! Please send your comments to: genderit@apcwomen.org
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