MDG3
Violence Against Women and ICTs
Mobiles equipped with cameras are being used to peep up girl’s skirts as they climb on board buses. The same “emergency alert” button to send a distress signal from a cell phone is also connected to a global positioning system signal that allows women’s movements to be closely monitored by their spouses. Hundreds of Indian women denounce street sexual harassment in the Blank Noise Project Blogathon, many snapping shots of “Eve-teasing” aggressors.
Using cell phones to address violence against women and girls
Women’sNet in partnership with Cell-Life will be hosting a workshop on 13 and 14 October to explore the potential use of cell phones to address violence against women and girls. This workshop is one of the activities of the APC WNSP project on strengthening women’s use of ICTs to combat VAW. VAW activists, communication rights workers, policy makers and regulators are some of the participants who will attend.
First Cambodian Women Web Portal
Manavy Chim, Executive Director of Open Institute in Cambodia and APC WNSP partner in a 12-country project using ICTs to end violence against women (VAW) is interviewed by Sopheap Chak on the occasion of International Women’s Day. Open Institute’s women web portal is the first-ever of its kind in Khmer, and has made information on women’s rights and the reality of VAW available to more than 2000 visitors daily. Says Manavy:“It is imperative that women are able to draw on available resources to combat VAW. Access to ICT can be seen as central issue concerning empowerment of women.”
Witnessing J-spot
Jan Moolman reporting from CSW..
I’m at the UN building in New York attending the 54th CSW and have just uploaded two videos to my online account. It took 3 minutes to upload. The videos share the impressions of two women’s rights activists working in and with media about what is happening with Section J at the CSW. They took four minutes to record. So, in seven minutes I was able to get quotes from women who spoke with authority about a newsworthy issue and distribute them as part of a package of news about gender (in)equality and the media.
¿Encontraremos el punto “J” de las mujeres durante la revisión de Beijing +15?
Maria Suárez hace referencia al “punto J” en un artículo donde analiza por qué la Sección J no fue un tema prioritario durante el encuentro de Beijing +10 en 2005. Cinco años después, ¿podemos decir que ahora si hay apoyo para los medios y las TIC de las mujeres? ¿Hay que “elegir” entre la batalla para terminar con la violencia contra las mujeres o erradicar la pobreza y la lucha por nuestro derecho a la libertad de expresión, el acceso a la información y el poder contar nuestras propias historias?
PolíTICas de GenderIT.org: Violencia contra las mujeres y TIC
PolíTICas, el boletín temático de GenderIT.org, continúa su analisis sobre la legislación y las políticas de TIC en relación a la violencia contra las mujeres (VCM) con 2 interesantes artículos que entrecruzan informes de 8 países, 4 de la región latinoamericana y el resto de Asia que documentan “la escasa comprensión que hay en ambas regiones sobre las conexiones entre la violencia de género y las TIC”, como destaca Jan Moolman, invitada de GenderIT.org en esta edición para redactar el editorial. Es en este marco que les pedimos prestar atención a la convocatoria de GenderIT.org para ayudarnos a unir los puntos entre Derechos . Violencia . Tecnología.También en esta edición, Vera Vieira y Jacira Melo nos traen bajo la forma de un interesante artículo lo cosechado por las mujeres brasileras en la I Conferencia Nacional de Comunicación (Confecom).
Women’s “J spot" at the Beijing +15 review
Maria Suárez refers to the “‘J’ spot” in an article exploring why Section J was not a priority issue during the 2005 Beijing +10 review. Five years later, can we claim that women’s media and ICTs are now supported? Do we still feel forced into ‘choosing’ between the struggle to end violence against women or eradicate poverty and the struggle for our rights to freedom of expression, access to information, and to tell our own stories? GenderIT.org guest editor Jan Moolman talks about looking for the “J spot” at the upcoming Beijing + 15 review during the 54th session of the Commission of the Status of Women.
Gender Centred: Violence against women and ICTs - part 2
GenderIT.org takes a cross-country look at violence against women (VAW) and ICT laws and policy in Asia and Latin America, based on country reports highlighted in GenderIT’s previous VAW and ICT edition. They show the connections between women’s rights, violence against women, and ICTs. Guest editor Jan Moolman questions if women’s “J Spot” will be present at the upcoming Beijing Platform for Action 15 year review. Kathleen Diga tracks expressions of gender and power relations between women and men in the African Copyright and Access to Knowledge (ACA2K) project research findings.
BPA is a teen-er
BPA is a teen-er
By Lalaine P. Viado
The Beijing Platform for Action (BPA) is 15 years old and a global review of the progress of its implementation will be held at the 54th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) on 1-12 March 2010 at the UN Headquarters in New York City. The global review will focus on the link between the BPA implementation and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the outcome of which will significantly contribute to the high-level meeting on the MDGs by the General Assembly in September 2010.*
