Secure Online Communications

Media and ICT Caucus Statement at the Asia-Pacific High-Level Meeting on Beijing + 10

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 05:02:31 +0100

Media and ICT Caucus, APNGO Forum] - The Media and ICT Caucus wish to state from the outset our reaffirmation of the commitments of the BPFA and the Cairo Programme of Action, and their Plus 5 documents.

A Gender-responsive Information Society: A Priority in the Asia-Pacific Beijing +10 Agenda

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 04:33:38 +0100

The following is a report from the Asia-Pacific Women's Watch onsite report of the B+10 Intergovernmental High Level Meeting organized by the UN Economic and Social Commission of Asia Pacific. Daily reports from the HLM will be available through the APWW-mailing list, and will also be made available from the APNGO-Forum website at http://ap-ngo-forum.isiswomen.org

A Gender-responsive Information Society: A Priority in the Asia-Pacific Beijing +10 Agenda

Gender and ICT Policy Advocacy: implications for the women's movement

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 04:04:27 +0100

Achievements: The Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995 is generally regarded as a watershed in understanding of information technology as a powerful tool that women could use for mobilization, information exchange, and empowerment. Beijing was also the first international conference at which substantive issues relating to women, information and communication technology were debated, albeit somewhat on the margins of the core agenda.

PULA Policy Focus: Trafficking, Pornography and Censorship On-line

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 03:14:12 +0100

CAPETOWN, South Africa [PULA, APC Africa Women] - In this edition of Pula, our regular policy focus column that looks at the major issues facing African women and their effective use of ICTs, our policy writer, Alice Munyua, explores the issues of trafficking, pornography and censorship online.

Paradoxically while the internet has proven to be an essential tool for global advocacy for ending violence against women and human rights abuses, it is also a medium through which prostitution and trafficking of women and girls is facilitated.

Action Alert! Stop Cyberbullying Day, March 30th

Erika — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 03:51:17 +0100

Increasingly, harassment and stalking is happening in and through digital communications technology.