Resource Report on Cyber Violence Against Women: POLICY OVERVIEW AND RECOMMENDATIONS, SEPTEMBER 2024
Resource Report on Cyber Violence Against Women: POLICY OVERVIEW AND RECOMMENDATIONS, SEPTEMBER 2024
“Violence against women (VAW) is a manifestation of men’s domination and unequal power over women to silence their voices, control their lives, bodies and sexuality and ‘keep them in their place’. […]
“There is not one single country in the world where women and girls are free from male violence and not a single area in any woman’s life where she is not exposed to the threat or reality of acts of male violence. The digital world/culture is no exception to this rule.”
You can download the report for free:
https://womenlobby.org/IMG/pdf/ewl_fullreport_cvawg.pdf
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Nov 25 2024, 12:59 AM #1The European Women’s Lobby has published a comprehensive new report on cyber violence against women.
“Violence against women (VAW) is a manifestation of men’s domination and unequal power over women to silence their voices, control their lives, bodies and sexuality and ‘keep them in their place’. […]
“There is not one single country in the world where women and girls are free from male violence and not a single area in any woman’s life where she is not exposed to the threat or reality of acts of male violence. The digital world/culture is no exception to this rule.”
You can download the report for free:
https://womenlobby.org/IMG/pdf/ewl_fullreport_cvawg.pdf
“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.” – Audre Lorde
I play a lot of an MMO, and I recently found out that one of my female friends on another server has more or less quit the game due to being cyber stalked. :/ We hadn't been playing together recently as her work schedule had changed, but she still logged on to hang out with her guild. Apparently, a few months ago, she began receiving harassment in DMs every time she logged on to the game, from accounts she didn't know. Whoever was behind it also began DMing everyone in her guild, trying to spread rumors about my friend and telling everyone to leave the guild.
When I found out about this, I was livid. :( I've offered to help her come over to our server and join our guild instead, but understandably she's not sure if she wants to keep playing or not.
I have countless stories like this from my time running gaming groups, so...yeah. I am glad they included this in the report.
Thank you for sharing this! I was skimming it last night; it's quite long, I'll have to find time to sit down and read it in full. It specifically calls out CVAW in online gaming, a sphere I am unfortunately familiar with.
I play a lot of an MMO, and I recently found out that one of my female friends on another server has more or less quit the game due to being cyber stalked. :/ We hadn't been playing together recently as her work schedule had changed, but she still logged on to hang out with her guild. Apparently, a few months ago, she began receiving harassment in DMs every time she logged on to the game, from accounts she didn't know. Whoever was behind it also began DMing everyone in her guild, trying to spread rumors about my friend and telling everyone to leave the guild.
When I found out about this, I was livid. :( I've offered to help her come over to our server and join our guild instead, but understandably she's not sure if she wants to keep playing or not.
I have countless stories like this from my time running gaming groups, so...yeah. I am glad they included this in the report.
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