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IGF 2012 - Access and Diversity Main Session
This is the transcript of the Access and Diversity Main Session that took place on November 8 2012 at the Internet Governance Forum in Baku, Azerbaijan. It was the first time in the entire history of the IGF that women and gender issues were addressed in a main session, with the presence of Jac sm Kee from APC Women´s Rights Programme.
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DELETE, UNDO, RETRIEVE: Statement on the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012
The statement developed by the Women's Legal Bureau (WLB) in response to the Cybercrime Bill. WLB highlights the specific women's rights concerns in relation to the bill, in particular warn that the law can be used to further perpetuate violence against women. They are still in the process of gathering support and you are invited to sign on to show your support to the cause.
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The hack of Uganda’s government websites: Anonymous could do better
Uganda’s Government websites were hacked and defaced earlier this month. The hacksters asserted that their actions were to protest the Ugandan Government persecution of the LGBTI community of Uganda where being gay is considered criminal and where legislation is pending Uganda’s parliament that would impose harsh prison penalties on gay people, including the death sentence for so called “…
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Não parem essa formiga!
Essa formiga vai dar volta ao mundo pelo fim da violência contra à mulher. Por favor, reencaminhe-a para que ela chegue ao seu destino.
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Soweto #RapeVideo: I don’t create or forward violence!
In a trend that is becoming all too familiar, distribution of an alleged gang rape video has again made the news this week. Like the Jules High School case, the cell phone video went viral and was finally reported to the police by an upset parent who found the video on a teenager’s cell phone. The video triggered outrage online among netizens, with many users expressing their anger using the…
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Take away personal dynamics, be anonymous
Who said we should write things in our own names? It makes it personal. Today there was a debate at AWID Forum about a letter that was distributed criticising the exclusion of a certain discourse in the MENA region, and a point that was used to attack the letter was that it was not signed, you can't identify the authors of the letter, and no one "to take responsibility" for its content.
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Liberation Inc. – more reflections from the AWID Forum
I spent a full day yesterday focusing on the intersection of feminism, activism, and Information Communication Technologies (ICTs). And I kept running into the same women (the feminist Twitterati?). And these women were mostly already known to me from my own work on the issue. This worries me a little bit. Could it be that there are so few feminist / female Techies in the world that we all know…
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'Love Letter to the Soldier' - video that moves people to change
Maria Goreti, a papuan woman, was left pregnant and abandoned by an indonesian soldier. She and her 3-year-old daughter are still waiting for him to return. South to South Film Festival award-winning short film “Love letter to the Soldier” by EngageMedia tells her story.
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From Clock Square to StreetWatch: mapping sexual harassment in Palestina
Dalia Othman, a researcher and human rights activist, reports on a new initiative in Ramallah, Palestina, that uses online mapping and mobile phone technology to allow women to combat sexual harassment in the streets.
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Haz la conexión: te invitamos a participar en una actividad en el marco de nuestra campaña “¡Conecta tus derechos!”
¿Dónde estabas cuando “conectaste tus derechos” por primera vez? Es decir, ¿cuándo fue la primera vez que te diste cuenta de que tus derechos son verdaderamente inalienables, incluso en línea? La campaña ¡Conecta tus derechos! hace un llamado para la presentación de blogs, poemas, relatos digitales, ilustraciones y otros elementos visuales para ayudar a otras personas a hacer la conexión.