Feminist talk

Feminist research is often plagiarised, and used unethically and unattributed, leading to the loss of researcher's labour and the ethical considerations they employ while putting the research together. Rohini Lakshane talks about how she archives her research to ensure wide availability as well as keeping record of the work for when and if it is unethically reproduced.

As Israel continues its genocide in Palestine and illegally occupies Palestinian lands, its surveillance technology that has been used worldwide in violating human rights, takes its objectives of indiscriminatory killing innocent people.

While the move to online platforms for domestic work in India has given a sense of security and identity in some cases to the workers, the commodification of care under online platforms has erased the kind of quasi-familial support and connection, the absence of which was truly felt by workers during the pandemic. 

While the war in Ethiopia is ongoing and affecting people in multiple regions on all fronts, the violence is caused through not just the usual weapons of war, rather social media and online platforms are being weaponised to target individuals, especially women and gender and sexually diverse folks giving rise to online gender based violence. Ermias Mulugeta highlights the impact in this…

As many human rights activists and decision makers gathered for the 68th session of CSW in March in New York, the important questions about the politics of this year's theme that looked at "addressing poverty, strengthening institutions" remained unanswered. APC WRP's Karla Velasco reflects and calls to direct energies to address biases.

Members of the network will undertake a feminist internet research that provides substantial evidence to drive change in policy and law and in the discourse around internet rights. The broader objective is to ensure that the needs of women, and gender diverse and queer people are considered in internet policy discussions and decision-making.

GenderIT, along with Noor and Take Back The Tech, organised a discussion with six Palestinian feminist activists, researchers, academics and content creators to discuss how Israel weaponises gendered disinformation and atrocities propaganda to continue its genocide in Palestine.

The violence that the world is witnessing right now across continents is not happening in a vacuum, rather all of them are connected and share the same backdrop of imperialism and colonialism. Zainab Durrani discusses these trends in a few instances of unending human rights violations.

The increased use of generative AI, where impresses the masses, it also raises ethical questions when applied to sensitive political contexts. Kira Xonorika explores how this technology is being used in imagining a free Palestine that gives a sense of hope, but also in contexts that promotes oppressors' propaganda.

73 civil society organisations sign a letter to Zuckerberg calling out his company Meta's proposal to revise its hate speech policy to treat the term "Zionist" as a proxy for Jewish and/or Israeli, which will ultimately lead to severe restrictions on legitimate political speech and debate. This proposal comes at a time when Israel is committing a genocide in Palestine as the world watches.