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The Bill was drafted by Justice Alliance of South Africa (JASA), an anti-gay, anti-choice organisation. The countries mentioned by JASA as having enacted similar legislation to the proposal Bill – Yemen and the United Arab Emirates – both censor LGBT as well as political content that they deem undesirable.

Taking into consideration the social context within which laws operate in South Africa, where violence against lesbian women and transgender people is common, “a law focusing on sexual content is likely to see content that focuses on lesbian sexuality or even women’s sexuality as deviant and undesirable” says Shackleton.

“The Law Reform Commission in South Africa, tasked with investigating internet pornography should consider freeing up funds from the Universal Access Fund to promote positive content by women and for women,” says Shackleton. “That way we tip the balance of content in favour of more positive representations of women and more diversity.”

“The Law Reform Commission’s investigation at the very least must be framed by considering that children and women are not the same entity. Children are a separate category of people that require very different legislative approaches than those addressing women,” Shackleton concludes.

Durante la última década, internet ha sido censurada y su contenido regulado por múltiples motivos, pero la razón principal invocada por gobiernos de todo el espectro geopolítico ha sido el sexo – o el “contenido sexual perjudicial”.

Esta síntesis de prensa preparada por APC examina que tipos de contenido sexual se encuentran en internet y su importancia en relación al derecho a la libertad de expresión y el derecho a la información de las personas.Debido a que el contenido sexual y la conducta relacionada con lo sexual en línea actúa como disparador de intervención estatal y de otro tipo, el PARM de APC lleva adelante el proyecto de investigación EroTICs sobre la forma en que diferentes personas en diversas partes del mundo utilizan internet en relación a la sexualidad. EroTICs es apoyado por la Fundación Ford. Los resultados finales se publicarán a fines de 2010, pero los primeros resultados ya están en línea

Over the last decade, the internet has been censored and content regulated and the principal reason cited by governments across all geopolitical spectrums has been sex – or “harmful sexual content”. But online sexual content ranges from information on sexual health to fighting sexual violence and can also be very important to people’s right to freedom of expression and right to information.

This APC media brief examines regulation and censorship of sexual content as part of APC WNSP’s Exploratory Research on Internet and Sexuality (EroTICs) on how different people in different parts of the world are really using the internet related to sex. Results will be published at the end of 2010 but initial findings are now online
The EroTICs research is being carried out with support from the Ford Foundation.

In March GenARDIS grant winners met for the last time after more than a year of innovative research and work to improve rural women’s lives in countries like Ethiopia, the Dominican Republic and Zambia. With projects as diverse as community radio drama groups, pest control through information access and using technology to promote women’s inheritance and land rights, projects were as diverse as the countries they came from. But as this third round of small grants winds down, participants are determined to scale up their work.

GenARDIS es para las mujeres sordas de Etiopía, que ahora pueden generar sus propios ingresos a través de la fotografía digital. GenARDIS es para las mujeres rurales de África, que aumentaron los ingresos de sus hogares al tener la posibilidad de vender sus productos a compradores/as de fuera de su comunidad. GenARDIS es para las pequeñas productoras que ya no tienen por qué ser objeto de abuso de los intermediarios, ya que pueden conseguir un precio justo para sus cosechas enviando un simple mensaje de texto.