End violence project communications report 2014
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End violence project communications report 2014
End violence: Women's rights and safety online Communications report 2014 Flavia Fascendini January - December 2014 End violence: Women's rights and safety online - Communications report 2014 1 Table of Contents End violence: Women's rights and safety online................................................................................................................................1 Communications report 2014......................................................................................................................................................1 Guiding ideas for the End violence project communications plan......................................................................................................3 Communication outputs.............................................................................................................................................................4 What changed in our communications developments from 2013 to 2014?.......................................................................................10 Social media.......................................................................................................................................................................10 Mailing lists.........................................................................................................................................................................10 Visuals and multimedia content.............................................................................................................................................10 Media reach and engagement...............................................................................................................................................10 End violence project significant activities and corresponding content production..................................................................................16 Spaces for publication .........................................................................................................................................................16 a) Commission on the Status of Women 58 – March 2014........................................................................................................16 b) Imagine a Feminist Internet – May 2014............................................................................................................................18 c) Feminist Principles of the Internet .....................................................................................................................................21 d) What are you doing about violence against women? campaign – July 2014.............................................................................22 e) CEDAW Committee and the General recommendation on girls’/women’s right to education – July 2014......................................23 f) Internet Governance Forum – September 2014....................................................................................................................23 g) 27th session of the UN Human Rights Council ....................................................................................................................26 h) Global Information Society Watch edition – November 2014.................................................................................................26 i) Take Back the Tech! campaign – November/December 2014..................................................................................................26 j) Supporting Women Human Rights Defenders.......................................................................................................................27 k) Messaging tech-related violence against women..................................................................................................................28 l) End violence research results.............................................................................................................................................32 Case studies ......................................................................................................................................................................33 m) Local stories: Project partners' work.................................................................................................................................34 Most Significant Change stories.............................................................................................................................................36 n) Supporting partners' campaigns........................................................................................................................................37 Content dissemination reach in figures...........................................................................................................................................38 Visits to GenderIT.org .............................................................................................................................................................39 Appendix I: Full list of media hits..................................................................................................................................................42 Appendix II: What are you doing about VAW? campaign ..................................................................................................................47 Campaign materials.................................................................................................................................................................47 Banners.............................................................................................................................................................................47 Flyer..................................................................................................................................................................................47 Media brief.........................................................................................................................................................................48 Email.....................................................................................................................................................................................49 End violence: Women's rights and safety online - Communications report 2014 2 Social media...........................................................................................................................................................................49 Impact...................................................................................................................................................................................50 Social media.......................................................................................................................................................................50 #WhatAreYouDoingAboutVAW: Reach overview.......................................................................................................................50 #mujeryviolenciaqhacestu: Reach overview............................................................................................................................53 Press.....................................................................................................................................................................................56 Regional diversity................................................................................................................................................................58 Linguistic diversity...............................................................................................................................................................59 Reflections..............................................................................................................................................................................60 Email distribution full list .........................................................................................................................................................62 Appendix III: Figures in detail of unique visitors and visits to GenderIT.org per month during 2014.......................................................68 End violence: Women's rights and safety online - Communications report 2014 3 Guiding ideas for the End violence project communications plan In terms of the End violence: Women's rights and safety online project communications plan, the project team set a vision: APC and WRP as leaders in the tech-related VAW area by 2017. The objectives of the communications plan were determined as follows: 1. Build the visibility and reach of the entire project in a consistent way through the production and dissemination of content and media outreach. • Raise awareness about technology-related violence against women (VAW) as an issue for women’s rights and internet rights activists. • Support project advocacy objectives in a timely, consistent and provable way, through the production and dissemination of strategic content and media outreach. The audiences for influence and messaging were disaggregated as follows: • Individual women and girls who have experienced tech-related VAW and those interested in this area who want to take practical action • Women's human rights organisations and leaders (women’s and girls’ rights groups, women who are leaders in internet rights and human rights, and APC member organisations, especially those working on VAW who we want to take up these issues) • Policy makers • Private sector (corporations, technology groups for implementation of crowd mapping for social change). General audiences: • Internet users • Journalists and media. End violence: Women's rights and safety online - Communications report 2014 4 Communication outputs The communications outputs in terms of the communications plan for the entire project were determined as shown in the following table: Timeline In process Action Messaging Outcomes Developed clear messaging for all target audiences to brand the project and its relationship to APC’s work against VAW, Take Back the Tech! 2013 Tagline Used a tagline for the project in all communications. Tagline was used consistently in all materials produced, acknowledging project partners and funder. Keeping closer track of project Ongoing Ongoing partners' communications- Project partners shared their newsworthy information with End violence project communications related activities team (see comments about this later in this report). Liaising with rights.apc.org End violence project articles co-produced with Connect Your Rights! project team, and republished in rights.apc.org Ongoing Project information APC.org project page was regularly updated on project-related information in English, Spanish and French. Information, documentation and content production Ongoing Take Back the Tech! website Started working to turn Take Back the Tech! website into a multi-purpose one. End violence: Women's rights and safety online - Communications report 2014 5 Ongoing Subject, timing APC.org visibility Multimedia and quantity to APC.org website visibly reflected the project and the parts involved. Multimedia content produced respecting subject, time and quantity as agreed, and published on APC.org project page as well as on GenderIT.org, and other project spaces. be determined Weekly/bi- News/newsletter monthly as Articles and publications were featured in APCNews in 3 languages. Content was published, repackaged or linked on APC.org and disseminated in APCNews. necessary Ongoing, as Analysis needed Hot topics were repackaged, in-depth articles were published on GenderIT.org and disseminated in all online spaces as well. Encouraged partners to blog on GenderIT.org’s Feminist Talk, reflecting their analysis on the project subject. GenderIT.org editions included some of these pieces. Partners' local news and blogs are reposted in designated online spaces such as APC.org and Ongoing Aggregating partners’ blogs Annually Annual reports Baseline data in the first year was published on GenderIT.org and on APC.org project page. 2014/2015 Research findings Partial research findings were published on APC.org project page, as well as on GenderIT.org and GenderIT.org. End violence: Women's rights and safety online - Communications report 2014 6 disseminated via news and analysis pieces on APC.org and GenderIT.org. 2013 GenderIT.org editions Three GenderIT.org editions were produced and disseminated on time. Internal communications Mailing lists were used actively by partners and team to share content and updates, to exchange Ongoing Cross-project communications local work challenges and development, to announce project deadlines, and to facilitate crossproject communications. Ongoing Project communications Actively used the Women's Rights Programme team mailing list to facilitate project-related coordination tasks. Included APC communications representatives. Ongoing Photo sharing Collected, selected and highlighted photographs from partners. Social media Ongoing Content dissemination Posted on Twitter and Facebook any content produced related to the project. Used existing accounts and #takebackthetech, #endVAW and #GenderIT in English (and relevant ones in other languages). Ongoing End violence: Women's rights and safety online - Communications report 2014 7 Connection with partners Social media was used to connect with partners. Set up list of all country partners (all languages) on Twitter, Facebook and Pinterest with @takebackthetech account. Engaged regularly in these spaces. Used existing accounts and #takebackthetech, #VAW, #genderIT in English and #genderites in Spanish. Global connections Social media was used to disseminate topics of interest and to engage with women journalists/bloggers, as well as women's rights, sexual rights and internet rights groups. Engaged and posted about related topics shared over email list by partners and others in the Ongoing network on relevant topics, using existing accounts and #takebackthetech, #VAW ,#genderIT in English and #genderites in Spanish. Reached women journalists/bloggers who write on VAW and related issues (they are very often allies and also facing online harassment themselves). Events coverage Used live-tweeting to cover important events related to campaigns and make connections. Used existing accounts and #takebackthetech, #VAW, #genderIT in English and #genderites in Ongoing Spanish. A special hashtag was used during the July Take Back the Tech! campaign targetting internet intermediaries (#whatareyoudoingaboutvaw) and before the Global Meeting on Gender and Sexuality (#imagineafeministinternet). Media outreach Ongoing Ongoing Media partners identification and liaison Media contacts Media partners were contacted whenever there was newsworthy information available. Started developing a database of media contacts interested in VAW, gender and ICTs, women’s End violence: Women's rights and safety online - Communications report 2014 8 rights and ICT4D. Ongoing Press releases Timely press releases were sent on demand. Dissemination provided as needed to media partners and contacts, such as when an issue becomes newsworthy or for planned, major project milestones or events. Monitoring and evaluation Analysis of readership of project-related articles was provided both for APC.org and GenderIT.org On demand Links to previous item Readership Reach report websites, usually after an edition was launched. Monitored the project/issue presence in mass and social media in English, French and Spanish. A special media reach report was developed for the July Take Back the Tech! campaign targeting internet intermediaries to gather the learnings from that successful experience. End violence: Women's rights and safety online - Communications report 2014 9 What changed in our communications developments from 2013 to 2014? ▪ Social media Greater investment was made in engaging partners, internet intermediaries, media and policy makers via Twitter, through the #imagineafeministinternet campaign and the July Take Back the Tech! campaign #whatareyoudoingaboutvaw. For the latter, users were invited to tweet using #WhatAreYouDoingAboutVAW in English, and #mujeryviolenciaqhacestu in Spanish. They were also invited to follow @takebackthetech and @dominemoslastic for the continuing conversation. A set of tweets and Facebook posts in English and Spanish were created and suggested for APC staff and partners to disseminate consistently and strategically on social media. A list of strategic constituencies and companies with their Twitter handles was created so that tweets would be directed at them. ▪ Mailing lists Greater investment was made in involving project partners through mailing lists and social media, and commissioning articles on their activities. ▪ Visuals and multimedia content Major efforts were made to provide visually attractive content and more multimedia content (video, audio, Storify stories). These achieved interesting results in terms of the level of circulation. ▪ Media reach and engagement 2014 was an outstanding year in terms of media reach. The Take Back the Tech! campaign on internet intermediaries was exceptionally successful in terms of media coverage in quantity, diversity and the level of the mainstream media reached. Below are the hits considered significant because of the publication's mainstream prominence. End violence: Women's rights and safety online - Communications report 2014 10 Citation Screenshot Tsukayama, Hayley. "In Getting Twitter Abuse, Zelda Williams Is Hardly Alone". Washington Post. 14 Aug. 2014. Web. End violence: Women's rights and safety online - Communications report 2014 11 Dewey, Caitlin.“New report slams Twitter, Facebook and YouTube for secrecy around harassment of women online”. Washington Post. 16 Sep. 2014. Web. Linshi, Jack. “Report gives Facebook, Twitter and YouTube an 'F' in handling harassment”. Time. 16 Sep. 2014. Web. End violence: Women's rights and safety online - Communications report 2014 12 (Reprint of Time article). “Report gives Facebook, Twitter and YouTube an 'F' in handling harassment”. Fortune. 17 Sep. 2014. Web. Bucci, Léa. “Sur le harcèlement en ligne, Facebook, Twitter et YouTube sont à la traîne” (On harassment online, Facebook, Twitter and Youtube lag behind). Slate.fr. 17 Sep. 2014. Web. End violence: Women's rights and safety online - Communications report 2014 13 “Are YouTube, Facebook, Twitter Hiding Female Abuse Data?”. The New Indian Express. 18 Sep. 2014. Web. Jansen, Thiago and Matsuura, Sérgio. “Assédio e ameaças são negligenciados por redes sociais” (Harassment and threats against women are neglected by social networks). O Globo. 17 Sep. 2014. Web. End violence: Women's rights and safety online - Communications report 2014 14 “Una campaña impulsa a denunciar la violencia de género en las redes” (Campaign urges the denunciation of gender-based violence in social networks). Agencia Télam. 20 Jul. 2014. Web. The previous article was republished several times by national and regional media, reaching the media clipping report of the Public Ministry of Defence of Buenos Aires. End violence: Women's rights and safety online - Communications report 2014 15 End violence project significant activities and corresponding content production Spaces for publication • GenderIT.org is one of the main platforms for dissemination of End violence project-related communications efforts. • APC.org further disseminates any articles developed under the End violence project, via its newsletter in English, Spanish and French, as well as through publication on the APC website. Project activities and news were distributed and highlighted on various APC websites, including APC.org, rights.apc.org, takebackthetech.net and GenderIT.org, depending on their relevance. During 2014 we also introduced the Most Significant Change stories, which were exclusively published on APC.org. a) Commission on the Status of Women 58 – March 2014 The APC Women’s Rights Programme attended the fifty-eighth session of the Commission on the Status of Women, which took place at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on 10-21 March 2014. Last year’s priority was “Challenges and achievements in the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals for women and girls” and the review theme was “Access and participation of women and girls to education, training, science and technology, including for the promotion of women’s equal access to full employment and decent work, from the 54th session of the CSW.” Here are the articles and blog posts developed to support and disseminate this activity: Follow-up to Beijing: APC Women's Rights Programme at CSW58 (1620 reads in English and 1142 reads in Spanish on APC.org and 717 reads in English on GenderIT.org) New GenderIT.org edition is out! Back and forth in the advancement of women's rights at CSW58 (1337 reads in English and 1107 reads in Spanish on APC.org) End violence: Women's rights and safety online - Communications report 2014 16 Fighting the backlash: Moving the agenda forward at the CSW (1732 reads in English and 827 reads in Spanish on GenderIT.org) CSW58: "We need to move beyond agreements towards public policies that will fulfil the commitments made to women" (1030 reads in English and 868 reads in Spanish on GenderIT.org) CSW58: Conclusions point to digital gender gap as impediment to exercise of human rights (2355 reads in English on GenderIT.org) CSW58: Jan Moolman from APC explains centrality of media and ICTs in conversations about development (2072 reads in English on APC.org and 2738 reads in English on GenderIT.org) LAC countries submit position letter on CSW58 agreed conclusions (1785 reads in English on APC.org and 1287 reads in English on GenderIT.org) Leading up to the Beijing Review: Strategising for Section J (3287 reads in English on APC.org and 1666 reads in English on GenderIT.org) Jac sm Kee on Take Back the Tech! @ CSW58: Access and control of technology is critical to advance on women´s rights (2264 reads in English on APC.org and 2005 reads in English on GenderIT.org) Good women, girls and HIV: Morality over health at the Commission on the Status of Women (1740 reads in English on GenderIT.org) End violence: Women's rights and safety online - Communications report 2014 17 GenderIT.org edition: Back and forth in the advancement of women's rights at CSW58 On 15 April 2014, after the 58th meeting of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), GenderIT.org circulated the bilingual edition “Back and forth in the advancement of women's rights at CSW58” (in Spanish/Portuguese: “Avances y retrocesos en el progreso de los derechos de las mujeres en CSW 58”) which reflected on some of the issues that were advocated for during the meeting by the Women’s Rights Programme, as well as materials produced as part of the event coverage, and those materials that the “End violence” project agenda addressed as main concerns in relation to the event. The edition was distributed via the GenderIT.org bilingual (English and Spanish/Portuguese) newsletter to over 600 subscribers, and via both GenderIT.org Twitter accounts to more than 2840 followers. Further distribution took place via other APC and partners' mailing lists and social networks to over 1400 women's and human rights defenders/activists, CSW participants, CSO members, journalists and content providers, as well as policy makers and strategic partners for the event. Between March, April and May 2014 (the month when the CSW meeting took place with GenderIT.org coverage, plus the month when the edition was sent, until a month after) a total of 27,143 different visitors accessed the website, and the GenderIT.org website received a total of 53,275 visits. b) Imagine a Feminist Internet – May 2014 APC held a Global Meeting on Gender, Sexuality and the Internet in Malaysia between 12 and 17 April, to explore and develop the collective understanding of what a feminist internet looks like. One of the goals of the meeting was to find, within a sex-positive queer framework, an agreement on core feminist principles for a transformative internet, in order to develop a set of evolving Feminist Principles of the Internet. Here are the articles and blog posts developed to support and disseminate this activity: "Keep it open, baby": Building principles for a feminist internet (2161 reads in English on APC.org) End violence: Women's rights and safety online - Communications report 2014 18 Join us in a global conversation for a feminist internet #imagineafeministinternet (1580 reads in English on APC.org and 1143 reads in English on GenderIT.org) Global Meeting on Gender, Sexuality and the Internet (3000 reads in English on APC.org and 1091 reads in English on GenderIT.org) EROTICS, activism and feminist porn (1025 reads in English on APC.org) Becoming an agent of change (1296 reads in English on GenderIT.org) Marginalised desires and the internet (748 reads in English on GenderIT.org) Thirty years after 1984: Who’s looking at you? (759 reads in English on GenderIT.org) The not-so-strange feeling that someone’s always watching you (1084 reads in English on GenderIT.org) Interview with Nana Darkoa: Adventures from the bedroom of an African woman (1553 reads in English on GenderIT.org) New GenderIT.org edition on gender, sexuality and the internet (1117 reads in English on APC.org) Video: Feminist talks on a feminist internet (1376 reads in English on APC.org and 3497 reads in English on GenderIT.org) Time to come out!: Pioneering women in history of technology (1785 reads in English on APC.org and 2398 reads in English on GenderIT.org) What does it take to create a feminist internet? (1534 reads in English on APC.org and 1057 reads in English on GenderIT.org) Panel on “Power, Politics and Agency” to #imagineafeministinternet (1206 reads in English on APC.org and 1387 reads in English on End violence: Women's rights and safety online - Communications report 2014 19 GenderIT.org) Sex and the internet: Intersectionality in internet rights (1339 reads in English on APC.org and 1663 reads in English on GenderIT.org) (Audio) Conversation with Maureen James, Funding and Strategy Specialist at IFEX (766 reads in English on GenderIT.org) Gender, sexuality and the internet to #imagineafeministinternet (2098 reads in English on GenderIT.org) Sexuality, feminism, activism and the internet we dream of (2444 reads in English on APC.org and 1128 reads in English on GenderIT.org) Digital storytelling: Animating personal and political narratives (444 reads in English on GenderIT.org) Imagining a misogyny-free internet (1383 reads in English on GenderIT.org) Sex, lies and the perils of Facebook dating (501 reads in English on GenderIT.org) #imagineafeministinternet: "No topic was off limit," says Nana Darkoa (806 reads in English on GenderIT.org) Digital Security – from silencing to claiming safe spaces (2149 reads in English on GenderIT.org) Imagining a digitally secure, feminist internet (843 reads in English on GenderIT.org) Sexual rights, internet rights, and feminism! (708 reads in English on GenderIT.org) End violence: Women's rights and safety online - Communications report 2014 20 GenderIT.org edition: Gender, sexuality and the internet In April 2014, Malaysia was the backdrop for academics, feminist and queer activists, and internet rights and policy specialists from diverse organisations and networks coming from many different countries to reflect on and analyse contentious issues of gender, sexuality and the internet. Most of the material featured in this edition drew on those debates and took them further. We proudly introduced the evolving Feminist Principles of the Internet drafted with the participation of many activists, and the first research outputs from the “End violence: Women’s rights and safety online” project were highlighted in the resources section. The edition was distributed via the GenderIT.org bilingual (English and Spanish/Portuguese) newsletter to over 600 subscribers, and via both GenderIT.org Twitter accounts to more than 2840 followers. Further distribution took place through other APC and partners' mailing lists and social networks to over 1400 women's and human rights defenders/activists, CSW participants, CSO members, journalists and content providers, as well as policy makers and strategic partners for the event. Between 1 September 2014 – when the edition was sent out – until a month after, a total of 15,656 different visitors accessed the GenderIT.org website, which received a total of 45,787 visits. c) Feminist Principles of the Internet Over three days, the participants in the Imagine a Feminist Internet meeting debated around the intersections of gender, sexuality and the internet – not only as a tool, but as a new public space. In thinking through these issues, the participants at the meeting developed a set of 15 feminist principles of the internet. These are designed to be an evolving document that informs our work on gender and technology, as well as to influence our policy-making discussions when it comes to internet governance. Here are the articles and blog posts developed to support and disseminate this activity: Feminist Principles of the Internet (3520 reads in English and 875 in Spanish on APC.org, 7123 reads in English and 331 reads in Spanish on GenderIT.org) End violence: Women's rights and safety online - Communications report 2014 21 Why do the Feminist Principles of the Internet matter? (831 reads in English on APC.org and 430 reads in English on GenderIT.org) d) What are you doing about violence against women? campaign – July 2014 This Take Back the Tech! campaign invited users to rate internet intermediaries on various aspects related to violence against women, using a report card developed for the occasion and drawing heavily on the End violence research findings. Here are the articles and blog posts developed to support and disseminate this activity: Join us in the Campaign: What Are You Doing About Violence Against Women (1680 reads in English on GenderIT.org) Take Back the Tech! campaign starts targeting Facebook, Twitter and YouTube (1593 reads in English and 1146 reads in Spanish on APC.org) What Are You Doing About Violence Against Women? (2735 reads in English and 2855 reads in Spanish on APC.org) #WhatAreYouDoingAboutVAW campaign: Social media accountability (990 reads in English on GenderIT.org) Report card Press release: A+ for profits, F for women's rights: Take Back the Tech! campaign invites users to rate Facbook, Twitter and YouTube (2776 reads in English on APC.org) Press release: Take Back the Tech! campaign starts targeting Facebook, Twitter and YouTube (3106 reads in English on APC.org) It is important to flag as well that other content was featured to consistently support the campaign, as in the case of the items selected for the GenderIT.org DJ's Choice section (see below in DJ's Choice), with one or more articles related to online harassment, internet End violence: Women's rights and safety online - Communications report 2014 22 intermediary policies, and tech-related VAW in general included in all the editions. Important note: Please refer to the media report developed for the TBTT internet intermediaries campaign to see more details on its reach and impact, included as an appendix in this report. e) CEDAW Committee and the General recommendation on girls’/women’s right to education – July 2014 On 7 July 2014, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) held a General Discussion on the Right to Education for Girls and Women, the aim of which was to commence the Committee’s process of elaborating a “General Recommendation on girls’/women’s right to education.” Here are the articles and blog posts developed to support and disseminate this activity: CEDAW: APC's submission to the Committee on the General recommendation on girls’/women’s right to education (published on APC.org and on GenderIT.org in English, 487 reads) f) Internet Governance Forum – September 2014 The 9th Internet Governance Forum (IGF) was held on 2–5 September 2014 in Istanbul, Turkey. Around 3000 people from governments, intergovernmental organisations, the private sector and civil society from all over the world attended. Here are the articles and blog posts developed to support and disseminate this activity: Summary Report of the Gender Dynamic Coalition meeting at the IGF 2014 (695 reads in English on GenderIT.org) End violence: Women's rights and safety online - Communications report 2014 23 9th IGF: Feminist talks scale over the walls of internet governance (355 reads in English on APC.org) “In our work, the internet is a main stakeholder”: A feminist talk with Hayriye Avatar at the IGF (681 reads in English on APC.org and 1297 reads in English on GenderIT.org) (Re)govern and (re)imagine a feminist internet: Sex, rights and internet governance at the IGF 2014 (1157 reads in English on APC.org and 840 reads in English on GenderIT.org) #WhatAreYouDoingAboutVAW campaign: Social media accountability (967 reads in English on APC.org and 989 reads in English on GenderIT.org) Thoughts on the 9th Internet Governance Forum (952 reads in English on APC.org) APC at IGF 2014: Bishakha Datta on the Feminist Principles of the Internet (379 reads in English on GenderIT.org) Gender Workshops, Actions, and Events at the IGF 2014 (872 reads in English on GenderIT.org) IGF 2014: Gender Dynamic Coalition taking place on Tuesday 2 September (524 reads in English on GenderIT.org) Moderate progress in gender parity and inclusion at the IGF between 2012-2013 (674 reads in English on GenderIT.org) Never mind the nipples: Sex, gender and social media (830 reads in English and 786 reads in Spanish on GenderIT.org) How crucial is anonymity for sexual exploration and promoting sexual rights activism (811 reads in English on APC.org and 1445 reads in English on GenderIT.org) IGF 2014: From Istanbul with love or “honey trap”? (700 reads in English on APC.org and 1223 reads in English on GenderIT.org) End violence: Women's rights and safety online - Communications report 2014 24 9th Internet Governance Forum: Gender and sexuality online (807 reads in English on APC.org and 997 reads in English on GenderIT.org) Women's rights at the 2014 IGF (1272 reads in English on APC.org and 1662 reads in English on GenderIT.org) APC launches "Feminist Principles of the Internet" at 2014 Internet Governance Forum (1040 reads in English on GenderIT.org) GenderIT.org edition: 9th IGF: Feminist talks scale over the walls of internet governance After the Internet Governance Forum which took place in September 2014, on 29 September GenderIT.org circulated the edition “9th IGF: Feminist talks scale over the walls of internet governance” which reflected on some of the issues that were advocated for during the meeting by the Women’s Rights Programme. This edition of GenderIT.org offered reflections from feminist and queer activists who participated in the Internet Governance Forum held on 2-5 September 2014 in Istanbul, Turkey. The feminist talks on internet governance included in the edition helped scale over the still relatively thick walls that tend to divide gender issues and internet governance as separate arenas. The edition was distributed via the GenderIT.org newsletter to over 345 subscribers in English, and via both GenderIT.org Twitter accounts (English and Spanish) to more than 2800 followers. Further distribution took place via APC and partners' mailing lists and social networks to over 1400 women's and human rights defenders/activists, the EROTICS and End violence projects' mailing lists, IGF participants and specific IGF-related mailing lists, CSO members, journalists and content providers, as well as policy makers. Between September and October 2014 (the month when the IGF meeting took place with GenderIT.org coverage and the edition was sent out, until a month after) a total of 28,039 different visitors accessed the website, and the GenderIT.org website received a total of 78,912 visits. End violence: Women's rights and safety online - Communications report 2014 25 g) 27th session of the UN Human Rights Council Hands off my internet! Abortion stigmas - accessing and controlling information on reproductive rights (717 reads in English on APC.org and 749 reads in English on GenderIT.org) h) Global Information Society Watch edition – November 2014 Here are the articles and blog posts developed to support and disseminate this activity: Sexual rights in Indonesia: Creating and protecting safe spaces for women minority groups (1436 reads in Engliish on GenderIT.org) Korea: Women’s privacy in danger through surveillance and leaking of private information (1724 reads in English on APC.org and 1654 reads in English on GenderIT.org) i) Take Back the Tech! campaign – November/December 2014 2014's campaign invited users to reframe the conversation about violence against women as a violation of our fundamental human right to freedom of expression. Also in 2014, APC’s Take Back the Tech! campaign was globally acclaimed for its “efforts to reduce threats online and build women’s confidence and security in the use of ICTs,” winning first place under category 6 in the first edition of the Gender Equality Mainstreaming – Technology (GEM-Tech) Awards, from over 360 nominations and 37 finalists from more than 70 countries. GEMTech is an annual special ITU-UN Women joint achievement award for outstanding performers and role models in gender equality and mainstreaming in the area of ICTs. Here are the articles and blog posts developed to support and disseminate this activity: Take Back the Tech! campaign wins ITU award for gender equality in tech (381 reads in English on GenderIT.org) End violence: Women's rights and safety online - Communications report 2014 26 Turn an idea into action: Clap to Take Back the Tech! (1486 reads in English on APC.org and 462 reads in English on GenderIT.org) Take Back the Tech! campaign Storify: Violence silences: Document. Challenge. Reclaim our right to expression (882 reads in English on APC.org) Take Back the Tech! campaign: Real stories by real women (1293 reads in English on APC.org) Violence silences: Document. Challenge. Reclaim our right to expression (386 reads in English on GenderIT.org) Jac sm Kee receiving the ITU award on behalf of APC. j) Supporting Women Human Rights Defenders GenderIT.org published materials reaffirming that the same rights that people have offline must also be protected online, and highlighting that online harassment against women human rights defenders is an aggressive violation of their rights to freedom of expression and association, among others. Here are the articles and blog posts developed to support and disseminate this activity: Our right to safety: Publication addresses women human rights defenders’ approach to protection (1928 reads on APC.org in English and 1171 reads on GenderIT.org in English) AWID and the Women Human Rights Defenders International Coalition are re-launching “Our right to safety: Women human rights defenders' holistic approach to protection” (713 reads in English on APC.org and 1172 reads in English on GenderIT.org) New edition of Security in-a-Box: Challenges faced by women human rights defenders and sexual rights activists (1610 reads in English on APC.org) End violence: Women's rights and safety online - Communications report 2014 27 What's the point of the revolution if we can't tweet? Women Human Rights Defenders speak out (1075 reads in English on APC.org and 465 reads in English on GenderIT.org) Solidarity with imprisoned activists, with or without Facebook (1006 reads in English on APC.org and 1388 reads in English on GenderIT.org) Statement from members of the WHRD IC to the Human Rights Council on its 27th Session (182 reads in English on GenderIT.org) Women Human Rights Defenders International Coalition alarmed at reports of violence against Leyla Yunus in prison (847 reads in English on APC.org and 4803 reads in English on GenderIT.org) k) Messaging tech-related violence against women A series of articles and blog posts were published on GenderIT.org and APC.org in the last year to address issues directly related to techbased violence against women or exploring the intersections of this topic with others, such as sexuality and sexual rights. The intention was to bring context to enable a deeper analysis of technology-based VAW and all its implications. Here are the articles and blog posts developed to support and disseminate this activity: Participants in Costa Rican Women's Hackathon develop software applications to solve social problems (402 reads in English on APC.org) Tackling gender-based violence with technology - Case studies of mobile and internet technology interventions in developing contexts (977 reads in English on GenderIT.org) Queering internet governance in Indonesia (1050 reads in English on GenderIT.org) Tools and Tactics for the LGBTI community in sub-Saharan Africa (1413 reads in English on GenderIT.org) End violence: Women's rights and safety online - Communications report 2014 28 Twitter doth not a revolution make, but it maketh a difference (471 reads in English on GenderIT.org) Feminist Africa 18: e-spaces / e-politics (1163 reads in English on GenderIT.org) Join People Links Digital Gatherings to discuss technology related violence against women (1845 reads in English on GenderIT.org) People Links digital gathering discusses tech-related violence against women (1390 reads in English on APC.org) (Audio) Erika Smith in People Links Digital Gatherings: "We live in a world where privacy is not the default setting" (636 reads in English on GenderIT.org) Erika Smith: "It’s society’s responsibility, the companies’, and our countries’ to keep us safe" (894 reads in English on GenderIT.org) In Conversation: Jennifer Radloff and Jan Moolman on technology-related violence against women (1554 reads in English on APC.org) Emma Watson, trolls and a feminist internet in English on GenderIT.org) The coming of (digital) age: How African feminists are using the internet to change women's lives in English on GenderIT.org) Alberto Cerda: "There are many more international agreements to protect intellectual property than to protect people's privacy" in English on GenderIT.org) Applications open for the Gender and Technology Pop-up Institute (1175 reads in English on APC.org and 293 reads in English on GenderIT.org) Coming of (digital) age: How African feminists are using the internet to change women's lives End violence: Women's rights and safety online - Communications report 2014 29 APC brings debate on sexual rights, online hate speech and violence against women to RightsCon (1546 reads in Engliish on APC.org) How technology informs my activism: A conversation with gender and technology activists in Barcelona (9526 reads in English on APC.org and 9529 reads in English on GenderIT.org) 10 tips for challenging internet-based gender-discrimination and online harassment against women and girls (1605 reads in English on APC.org and 494 reads in English on GenderIT.org) Facebook: The king laid bare and the drag queens (679 reads in English and 486 reads in Spanish on APC.org, and 451 reads in English and 879 reads in Spanish on GenderIT.org) Tools and Tactics for the LGBTI community in sub-Saharan Africa (725 reads in English on APC.org and 1417 reads in English on GenderIT.org) The Video-For-Change Africa Network is Born! (1386 reads in English on APC.org) Women Weave the Web: Digital inclusion and empowerment campaign (1612 reads in English on APC.org) Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill – a great blow to internet freedom (1310 reads in English on APC.org and 1865 reads in English on GenderIT.org) AfriSIG 2014: The Journey (435 reads in English on GenderIT.org) Difficulties in documenting: Why it can be hard for women to speak out (430 reads in English on GenderIT.org) Social media: Why can't I just leave? Why is it hard to stay? (596 reads in English on GenderIT.org) Trials of a confused feminist (in an internet governance school) (2304 reads in English on GenderIT.org) End violence: Women's rights and safety online - Communications report 2014 30 International Women's Media Foundation website hacked (456 reads in English on GenderIT.org) Celebrating women in ICT at APNIC 38 (351 reads in English on GenderIT.org) Why internet rights matter for Africa(ns) (1106 reads in English on GenderIT.org) Digital misogyny: “It felt like 514 people had raped me all over again” (654 reads in English on GenderIT.org) Namita Aavriti: Through a freedom of speech and privacy laws lens (372 reads in English on GenderIT.org) New Media and Girls’ Rights: Tying-in Technology and Empowerment (367 reads in English on GenderIT.org) Hooked on: Sex work and mobile phones (1429 reads in English on GenderIT.org) Decoding India’s Proposed Online Porn Ban – II (1806 reads in English on GenderIT.org) Porn and Violence: Navigating the Grey Areas (1237 reads in English on GenderIT.org) Pornographic Love (2167 reads in English on GenderIT.org) Women Confront VAW using ICTs: Experiences from remote and fishing community in Eastern Uganda (430 reads in English on GenderIT.org) Snippets from “Tangled, Like Wool”, New Delhi (636 reads in English on GenderIT.org) Interview: Adolescent Girls’ Mobile Phone Use in Bihar, Jharkhand, UP (800 reads in English on GenderIT.org) End violence: Women's rights and safety online - Communications report 2014 31 Sex work and the internet (1273 reads in English on GenderIT.org) Statement: APC's Women's Rights Programme statement: Forwarding violence is violence (16251 reads in English and 925 reads in Spanish in APC.org and 1866 reads in English and 298 in Spanish on GenderIT.org) A special note: In 2014, GenderIT.org started a new section called “DJ's choice”, consisting of a weekly collection of the most outstanding articles and resources that circulated on the web around feminism, technology-based violence, and women, internet and sexual rights movements. This section and its presence have definitely increased the visibility of the issues and provided contextual information in a consistent and regular manner. “Exploring the depths of the web to provide you once a week with a Top 5 of creative, interesting and informative pieces and resources on gender and ICTs. Delight yourself with this selection of 'sparks': Good readings, interesting links, videos, pictures, cool authors to point to, amazing tools, and much more.” l) End violence research results Research findings on tech-related violence against women released (1230 reads in English on APC.org) Internet intermediaries and violence against women online: User policies and redress framework of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube (1288 reads on APC.org in English and 2248 reads on GenderIT.org in English) Internet intermediaries and violence against women online. Executive summary and findings (212 downloads in English on GenderIT.org) Internet intermediaries and violence against women online. Twitter: A case study (138 downloads in English on GenderIT.org) End violence: Women's rights and safety online - Communications report 2014 32 Internet intermediaries and violence against women online. Facebook: A case study (214 downloads in English on GenderIT.org) Internet intermediaries and violence against women online. YouTube: A case study (135 downloads in English on GenderIT.org) Domestic legal remedies for technology-related violence against women: Review of related studies and literature (published on APC.org and 1296 reads and 138 downloads in English on GenderIT.org) Technology-related violence against women – Recent legislative trends (1094 reads on APC.org in English and 1804 reads and 22 downloads in English on GenderIT.org) Pakistan country report: Technology driven violence against women (422 reads and 24 downloads in English on GenderIT.org) Case studies The case study summaries are based on in-depth case studies mapping women’s experiences of technology-related VAW and their attempts to access justice either through domestic legal remedies or corporate grievance mechanisms. The original case studies from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Mexico, Pakistan and the Philippines were documented by country researchers from the project partners between November 2013 and April 2014. GenderIT.org published the summaries of the case studies, and the full case studies grouped by country, as well as one page only containing all the links to the case studies. End violence research: Case summaries from country reports (981 reads in English on APC.org and 947 reads and 87 downloads in English on GenderIT.org) End violence: Women's rights and safety online - Communications report 2014 33 End violence: Case studies from Bosnia and Herzegovina (published on APC.org and in English on GenderIT.org with 306 reads) End violence: Case studies from Colombia (published on APC.org and in English on GenderIT.org with 306 reads) End violence: Case studies from Kenya (published on APC.org and in English on GenderIT.org with 358 reads) End violence: Case studies from Mexico (published on APC.org and on GenderIT.org in English with 696 reads) End violence: Case studies from the Philippines (published on APC.org and on GenderIT.org in English with 344 reads) End violence: Case studies from Pakistan (published on APC.org and on GenderIT.org in English with 377 reads) Cases on women’s experiences of technology-related VAW and their access to justice (675 reads on APC.org in English and 1580 reads on GenderIT.org in English) m) Local stories: Project partners' work Many reports, articles and resources produced by project partners were featured on the GenderIT.org website primarily, and in projectrelated GenderIT.org editions, as well as on APC.org and in APCNews newsletters. Some of these materials were event-related and others were produced to feature specific issues related to the project area of work. Here are the articles and blog posts developed to support and disseminate this activity: End violence project: Two years and going strong (2126 reads in English on APC.org) End violence: Women's rights and safety online - Communications report 2014 34 Highlights on tech-related violence against women in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mexico and the Philippines (2829 reads in English on APC.org) Impacting global advocacy on tech-related violence against women through regional IGFs (1143 reads in English on APC.org and 654 reads in English on GenderIT.org) Overview of 2013 Take Back the Tech! campaign in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1989 reads in English on APC.org and 437 reads in English on GenderIT.org) Violence against women and ICT in Bosnia and Herzegovina: A tricky place between raising awareness and lobbying for laws (850 reads in English on APC.org and 632 reads in English on GenderIT.org) Nairobi: Policy consultation workshop on technology-related violence against women (840 reads in English on APC.org and 281 reads in English on GenderIT.org) Women and cyber crime in Kenya: “Where else would women go if not the internet?” (892 reads on GenderIT.org) Asia Pacific stakeholders assert ‘Human rights should be the heart of internet governance discussion’ (1243 reads in English on APC.org and 877 reads in English on GenderIT.org) 2014 ASEAN Civil Society Conference to address freedom of expression and women's human rights online (3201 reads in English on APC.org) ASEAN Forum discusses freedom of expression in the digital age (1414 reads in English on APC.org) Stockholm Internet Forum 2014: Good debates to benefit the next billion online (1275 reads in English on APC.org and 1579 reads in End violence: Women's rights and safety online - Communications report 2014 35 English on GenderIT.org) Pioneering research launched on tech driven violence against women in Pakistan (719 reads in English on APC.org) Pakistan: Reclaiming freedom of expression to end impunity (792 reads in English on APC.org) I pronounce you not a child (622 reads in English on GenderIT.org) Most Significant Change stories We wanted to offer a closer, more personal look at individual women whose lives have been significantly impacted by the initiative and we developed four most significant change stories from Colombia, Kenya, Pakistan and the Philippines. End violence: Most significant change story from the Philippines (published on APC.org in English, 1975 reads) End violence: Most significant change story in Kenya (published on APC.org in English, 1980 reads) End violence: Most significant change story from Pakistan (published on APC.org in English, 1324 reads) Basta de violencia: Historias de cambio significativo en Colombia (published on APC.org in Spanish, 1022 reads) End violence: Women's rights and safety online - Communications report 2014 36 n) Supporting partners' campaigns 2013 Prajnya 16 Days Campaign Against Gender Violence: A report on the colloquium on Digital Media and Gender Violence (2640 reads in English on GenderIT.org) Join today IGNITE: Women Fueling Science and Technology campaign to end the gender gap in technology (294 reads in English on GenderIT.org) World Pulse brings the power of its international network to IGF to advance women’s digital inclusion worlwide (630 reads in English on GenderIT.org) Women Weave the Web: Digital inclusion and empowerment campaign (552 reads in English on GenderIT.org) Lynn Syms Prize will award an outstanding grassroots woman using digital tools to effect change (467 reads in English on GenderIT.org) Pictures are available at https://www.flickr.com/photos/owpsee/sets/72157646116265496 End violence: Women's rights and safety online - Communications report 2014 37 Content dissemination reach in figures End violence: Women's rights and safety online - Communications report 2014 38 Visits to GenderIT.org It is important to notice that the months registering a remarkably higher number of visits to the website correspond to End violence project activities. In May, Imagine a Feminist Internet, a gathering of internet and sexual rights activists from different countries, took place in Port Dickson, Malaysia. Many articles were produced during that period as a result of the meeting, which can explain the high number of visits during May and June. In May we also ran the #imagineafeministinternet Twitter campaign, where we invited users to imagine what a feminist internet would look like to them. This campaign also linked to many materials on the website, which adds to the explanation on the spike in visits. End violence: Women's rights and safety online - Communications report 2014 39 In July, a special chapter of the Take Back the Tech! campaign was developed, targeting internet intermediaries and their lack of actions to stop violence against women online. We ran a Twitter campaign asking #whatareyoudoingaboutvaw, calling on users to use our research results to request accountability from internet intermediaries on the issue of VAW. This campaign drew strongly on the End violence research, and constantly pointed to it, which can explain the high number of unique visitors and visits during July, but also in June (with the calls and preparations for the campaign) and August. The Internet Governance Forum (IGF) took place (exceptionally) in September, and GenderIT.org was an active platform for dissemination, providing coverage and a post-IGF thematic edition touching on technology-based violence against women and sexual rights, which can explain the high number of visits that month. It is important to notice the especially high number of unique visitors (the highest during 2014), meaning that many visitors came back to the website more than once. End violence: Women's rights and safety online - Communications report 2014 40 End violence: Women's rights and safety online - Communications report 2014 41 Appendix I: Full list of media hits Source 1aPlana 24 Horas Agencia Télam America Latina Genera Association ESSE AWID AWID AWID BHRT portal BHTV Bljesak Blog de Marta Bloomberg View CDEACF Chiapas Paralelo Chicago Tribune CIDHAL CIMAC Noticias CIO CIO Korea Click2Houston CNN CNN Español CNN Mexico Title Encuesta: 4 de cada 10 personas en internet han sufrido acoso Alertan de violencia de género en redes Una campaña impulsa a denunciar la violencia de género en las redes Campaña contra la violencia hacia las mujeres ¡Dominemos la tecnología! Take Back the Tech! Campaign on Transparency on Violence Against Women through Social Media Platforms - Starts 21 July, 2014 Add A Square To Take Back The Tech's Digital Solidarity Quilt With Women Human Rights Defenders Violence Silences: Document. Challenge. Reclaim Our Right To Expression Research Findings On Tech-related Violence Against Women Released Kampanja “Je li virtualno stvarno?” počinje u Sarajevu Kampanja “Je li virtualno stvarno?” počinje u Sarajevu Pellizzer: Razlika između virtualnog i stvarnog nasilja gotovo da ne postoji Violencia contra las mujeres y tecnología Twitter Parodies, Politicians and Police Raids Les résultats de la recherche sur la violence contre les femmes et la technologie sont révélés Piden reforma para enfrentar delito de trata por internet A tale of Twitter, parodies and police Reconociendo a mujeres defensoras que hacen uso estratégico de la tecnología Informe abona a erradicar la impunidad contra las periodistas Social Media Giants Fail in Response to Online Abuse 페이스북, 트위터, 유튜브가 사이버폭력에 대한 대처가 미흡하다고 비난 받고 있다. 40% of web users have been harassed says survey 40% of Web users have been harassed, says survey El 40% de los usuarios de la web han sido acosados, según encuesta 4 de cada 10 personas en internet han sufrido acoso: encuesta End violence: Women's rights and safety online - Communications report 2014 42 Computer World Dawn Daily Times Daris Informa Diario Co-Latino (online and printed) Diskriminacija.ba Dnevnik 3 BHRT1 Eju TV Ekklesia El Comercial El Espectador El Mañana El Quinto Poder El Regional Mexico El Universal Elmercuriodigital EngageMedia enREDando Erie TV News Far Quest Far Quest Fayerwaver Following Women's Rights Fortune Four.ba Free News Pos Geledés Gig@ GirlsInTech-Chile Social media giants fail in response to online abuse Online abuse of Pakistani women turns into real violence Threatening women online El 40% de los usuarios de la web han sido acosados, según encuesta Campaña contra la violencia hacia las mujeres en internet Virtualno nasilje: znanje je najbolja prevencija http://www.bhrt.ba/bht1-emisije/dnevnik-3/dnevnik-3-72/ La violencia contra mujeres en las redes sociales Digital platforms and communications rights Agencia Télam article republished ¿No hay mujeres en internet? 4 de casa 10 personas que navegan en internet han recibido algún tipo de acoso Acoso callejero: tecnología para acosarnos, también para defendernos Tecnología y redes sociales, para crear espacios libres de violencia La violencia contra mujeres en las redes sociales La violencia vía internet pretende silenciar a las mujeres 9th Internet Governance Forum: Gender and Sexuality Online La violencia amordaza: Documéntala. Desafíala. Reclama nuestro derecho a expresarnos 40% of Web users have been harassed, says survey TakeBackTheTech: We made the legal community say TBTT! Let’s TBTT! Campaña busca eliminar la violencia contra las mujeres en redes sociales APC's Women's Rights Programme statement: Forwarding violence is violence Report gives Facebook, Twitter, YouTube an ‘F’ in handling harassment „Je li virtualno stvarno?” Video of Jac sm Kee talking about Take Back the Tech! campaign Assédio e ameaças contra mulheres são negligenciados por redes sociais 15 princípios para a internet feminista Campaña “Dominemos la Tecnología” gana premio GEM-TECH de la ONU End violence: Women's rights and safety online - Communications report 2014 43 NGO Organizes First Interview via Twitter Global Voices “La violencia amordaza: Documéntala. Desafíala. Reclama tu derecho a expresarte” Global Voices 16 days of activism-share your stories Guardian Witness SA women’s programme receives UN award for empowering women through ICT HTXT Social Media Giants Fail in Response to Online Abuse I Web Guy Blog Pioneering research launched on tech driven violence against women in Pakistan IFEX ¡Dominemos la tecnología! Pon fin a la violencia contra las mujeres en línea IFEX IGNITE- Global Fund for Women Building a Feminist Internet What it’s like being a woman on Twitter IOL Scitech Take Back the Tech! campaign focusing on transparency on violence against women through ISIS International IT News Joelle Palmieri La Capital MDP La Mula Perú La Prensa.com.ni Metrac - action on violence Mighty Girl ModelViewCulture NetworkWorld New Indian Express NewMediaRockstars Nuage Ciel d’Azur O Globo One World OregonLive Portal Mundos Primera Plana MX ProComunicando Prvi Portal social media Social Media Giants Fail in Response to Online Abuse L’innovation par les TIC est-elle aveugle au genre ? "¿Qué hacés contra la violencia hacia la mujeres?" Tecnología contra la violencia de género Website inaccessible Take Back the Tech! campaign Safety Online for Women Leaking Nudes Social Media Giants Fail in Response to Online Abuse Are YouTube, Facebook, Twitter Hiding Female Abuse Data? New Study Shows YouTube, Facebook, Twitter ‘Hide’ Female Harassment Sur le harcèlement en ligne, Facebook, Twitter et Youtube sont à la traîne Assédio e ameaças contra mulheres são negligenciados por redes sociais Emma Watson, trolls and a feminist internet Twitter parodies and other tech privacy issues: Bloomberg opinion Dominemos la tecnologia invita a su primera tweet entrevista Encuesta: 4 de cada 10 personas en internet han sufrido acoso Principios Feministas de Internet Da li je virtualno stvarno @Spajalica End violence: Women's rights and safety online - Communications report 2014 44 Quartz Querdenker Reuters Reuters España Sendasal Sens Slate.fr Soraya Chemaly Tech President Telegraph The Atlantic The Daily Times The Express Tribune The Nation The New Indian Express The Oregonian The Scotsman The Straits Times The Tico Times ThinkBig This Magazine TIME Times of India TMCNet Tribune Unico marketing Veracruzanos VG Nyhether The unsafety net: How social media turned against women F for women’s rights Online abuse of women in Pakistan turns into real-world violence El abuso de mujeres en Internet se convierte en violencia real en Pakistán Basta de violencia: derechos de las mujeres y seguridad en línea Sarajevo-Aida Mahmutović, menadžerica projekta "Zaustavimo nasilje nad djevojkama i ženama" : "BiH nema zakon koji tretira internet nasilje" Sur le harcèlement en ligne, Facebook, Twitter et Youtube sont à la traîne Building a feminist internet First POST: Connecting the Dots 7 steps you can take to avoid your Facebook photos being used on a porn site The unsafety net: How social media turned against women Threatening women online Tech-driven violence: Call for enhanced penalties for digital crime Legislation sought to combat cybercrimes against women Are YouTube, Facebook, Twitter Hiding Female Abuse Data? Twitter parodies and other tech privacy issues: Bloomberg opinion Women in Pakistan facing violence after web abuse Online abuse of Pakistan women spurs violence in real world, but social media firms slow to act Violence against women in the age of new technology 14 organizaciones que ayudan a las mujeres en la tecnología WTF Monday: Abuse against women online Report Gives Facebook, Twitter, YouTube an ‘F’ in Handling Harassment Reporting reports: On online abuse and user complaints A+ for Profits, F for Women's Rights: Take Back the Tech! Campaign Invites Users to Rate Facebook, Twitter and YouTube Tech-driven violence: Call for enhanced penalties for digital crime The unsafety net: How social media turned against women Violencia via internet pretende silenciar a las mujeres Facebook, Twitter og YouTube slaktes i rapport:- Tar ikke netthets mot kvinner på alvor End violence: Women's rights and safety online - Communications report 2014 45 VOA News Voice of America Volontiraj.ba WACC Washington Post Washington Post WGNRR Witness Women 24 Women’s views on news Women’s views on news Women’s views on news Yahoo News Yahoo.fr Yakima Herald YouPix YourStory YourStory Zona Red Social ZP-News Pakistani Rights Groups Denounce Cyberviolence Against Women Pakistani Rights Groups Denounce Cyberviolence Against Women Narandžasti dan:Krajnje je vrijeme je za prevenciju nasilja nad ženama i djevojakama Conference: Imagine a feminist internet In getting Twitter abuse, Zelda Williams is hardly alone New report slams Twitter, Facebook and YouTube for secrecy around harassment of women online Join the Take Back the Tech! Campaign Reporting on Sexual Assault and Gender-Based Violence: #16 Days Round-Up The rise of cyber abuse Speak out and take back the tech Imagine a feminist internet F for women’s rights Online abuse of women in Pakistan turns into real-world violence Sur le harcèlement en ligne, Facebook, Twitter et Youtube sont à la traîne Twitter can be a hotbed for hate speech O Facebook, o Twitter e o Youtube não estão nem aí pras mulheres ‘If the key metrics are growing, then the business is growing’ Digital innovation: winning initiatives at the Manthan South Asia Awards 2014 Estrategia contra la violencia a la mujer en Facebook y Twitter Гиганты социальных сетей провалились отвечать за сетевое оскорблениеСсылка на источник Other TV coverage: Al Arabiya News, National channel Express News, TV SA, Urdu Service, Hayat TV, Alfa TV, Pink TV, Geo News Television, OBN TV. Other radio coverage: Radio La Voz, FM99. End violence: Women's rights and safety online - Communications report 2014 46 Appendix II: What are you doing about VAW? campaign Campaign materials Banners A trilingual banner (English, Spanish and French) was designed and added to all related communications and articles on the campaign. Flyer A campaign flyer was designed and distributed online and at events such as the 2014 Internet Governance Forum. End violence: Women's rights and safety online - Communications report 2014 47 Campaign kit Campaign graphics Flyer Media brief A press brief in English was developed to give background information on the campaign to journalists and invite them to disseminate the campaign and write about it and the issues raised. This press brief was published on APC.org and linked to the last press release sent to targeted media contacts. What are Facebook, Twitter, YouTube doing about violence against women? (1786 reads in English on APC.org) End violence: Women's rights and safety online - Communications report 2014 48 Email Some highlights (see full list of email recipients below in this Appendix) TBTT report card was shared with the Women's UN Report Network. One of the recipients of the 16 Days of Action Against Gender Violence mailing list then posted the call on the Women's UN Report Network mailing list. Materials were shared on a timely basis with project partners and APC members. Social media Users were invited to tweet using #WhatAreYouDoingAboutVAW in English, and #mujeryviolenciaqhacestu in Spanish. They were also invited to follow @takebackthetech and @dominemoslastic for the continuing conversation. A set of tweets and Facebook posts in English and Spanish were created and suggested for APC staff and partners to disseminate consistently and strategically on social media. A list of strategic constituencies and companies with their Twitter handles was created so that tweets would be directed at them. A hashtracking tool was used to keep a record of the social media impact (see the section Impact: Social media). End violence: Women's rights and safety online - Communications report 2014 49 Impact Social media #WhatAreYouDoingAboutVAW: Reach overview The following statistics are taken from the full hashtracking report: Timeframe: 17 July to 14 August 2014 875 tweets 1,658,453 timeline deliveries 291 unique contributors 589,400 reach. End violence: Women's rights and safety online - Communications report 2014 50 End violence: Women's rights and safety online - Communications report 2014 51 End violence: Women's rights and safety online - Communications report 2014 52 #mujeryviolenciaqhacestu: Reach overview The following statistics are taken from the full hashtracking report: Timeframe: 17 July to 11 August 2014 414 tweets 808,663 timeline deliveries 160 contributors 264,031 reach End violence: Women's rights and safety online - Communications report 2014 53 End violence: Women's rights and safety online - Communications report 2014 54 End violence: Women's rights and safety online - Communications report 2014 55 Press All media hits were recorded and are reported here by region. Note the relatively important global coverage of the news in Europe (27 out of 108 hits). Also notable is the lack of coverage in Africa: the only coverage tracked in this region was an item from South Africa. In terms of observable links between region and country, it is important to stress that the region of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) shows a higher diversity of countries featuring related news (eight countries out of 23), against regions with more weight quantitatively such as North America (2 countries out of 23). In relation to news format, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Pakistan had outstanding coverage in broadcasting media. Country Argentina Frequency 6 Region LAC 1 18 LAC Europe Brazil Canada 4 5 LAC North America Chile Dominican Republic El Salvador France India Indonesia Italy 1 1 2 3 2 1 1 LAC LAC LAC Europe Asia-Pacific Asia-Pacific Europe Korea Macedonia Mexico 1 1 5 Asia-Pacific Europe LAC Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina End violence: Women's rights and safety online - Communications report 2014 Source El Comercial, Agencia Télam, Fayerwaver, Currín, La Capital MDP, Radio La Voz Eju TV BHRT, Sens, Four, Mladi.org, Pink TV, OBN TV, TV SA, Hayat TV, Alfa TV, BHTV, Civilnodrustvo.ba, Bljesak, Prvi Portal, Diskriminacija.ba, Volontiraj.ba, BHRT portal, Dnevnik 3 BHRT1, Internet magazine Sexuality Policy Watch, O Globo, Geledés, YouPix Metrac - action on violence, THIS Magazine, Centre de documentation sur l'education des adults et la condition feminine, IFEX, I web guy blog El Quinto Poder Daris Informa RD Diario Co-Latino (online and printed) Yahoo.fr, Slate.fr, Nuage Ciel d'Azul The New Indian Express, Times of India EngageMedia Querdenker CIO Korea Association ESSE El Universal, CIMAC Noticias, Primera Plana MX, CNN Mexico, El Mañana 56 Nicaragua Norway Pakistan 1 1 10 LAC Europe Asia-Pacific Philippines South Africa Spain Ukraine United Kingdom United States 2 1 1 1 1 20 Asia-Pacific Africa Europe Europe Europe North America Regional Regional Global 1 2 15 LAC Asia Global Total La Prensa.com.ni VG Far Quest (01/08/2014 and 01/08/2014), The Nation, The Daily Times, Daily Dawn, The Express Tribune, Geo News Television, FM99, National channel Express News, Urdu Service ISIS International, WGNRR Women 24 Reuters España ZP News The Scotsman IFEX (English and Spanish), Washington Post (14/09/2014, 16/09/2014), Yakima Herald, TIME, New Media Rockstars, Fortune, Bloomberg Views, The Oregonian, Chicago Tribune, The Atlantic, Quartz, CIO, NETWORKWORLD, Computerworld, IT News, Mighty Girl, Click 2 Houston, CNN, World Now America Latina Genera The Straits Times, Al Arabiya News AWID, WACC, Free News Pos, Global Voices (English and Spanish), Portal Mundos, Blog de Marta, Zona Red Social, OccuWorld, Women's Views on News, Voice of America, Yahoo News, Reuters, Foreign Policy South Asia 108 Even though there is a high diversity in the countries featuring related news (24), Bosnia and Herzegovina, the United States, Pakistan, 1 Argentina and Brazil, in order of relevance, were the countries with the most news items published. 1 In Pakistan, the outreach of the media coverage can safely be guesstimated at hundreds of millions, because all of the TV channels mentioned have not only national coverage in Pakistan, a country of nearly 200 million, but the Geo and Express News channels are also watched widely by the Pakistani diaspora in its tens of millions in the Middle East, Southeast Asia, North America and Europe. Voice of America, Urdu Service and FM 99 have listenerships in the tens of millions as well. Similarly, the readership of all the international and national newspapers that carried stories on our research findings can safely be assumed to total a very large number. End violence: Women's rights and safety online - Communications report 2014 57 Regional diversity Outstanding regions include North America (25 hits), LAC (21), Asia-Pacific (17) and Europe (16). Although the figures indicate a high number of news items in LAC, it is important to make a distinction here between republished content and original content. While North America has a similar number of items to LAC, this changes if we consider which of those media outlets featured more original content, which is the case of the US, while in Argentina (the country in LAC with the most news items) the hits relate almost exclusively to one original item featured on Agencia Télam which was later picked up by other national and regional media. End violence: Women's rights and safety online - Communications report 2014 58 Linguistic diversity End violence: Women's rights and safety online - Communications report 2014 59 Reflections The Take Back the Tech! campaign on internet intermediaries was exceptionally successful in terms of media coverage in quantity, diversity, and the level of the mainstream media reached. We consider that a debriefing on the lessons learned through this experience will be quite helpful for upcoming advocacy campaigns. Good timing and seizing the moment The second press release was sent out right after the Internet Governance Forum in Turkey, and even included several paragraphs that referred to the event and how it related to the research and campaign. We attribute the positive reception of our communications outputs to a noticeable general increase in the awareness of tech-related VAW matters, the wider wave of interest in social media and violence against women issues triggered by the leaking of pictures of female celebrities, and cases of harassment and threats perpetrated through Twitter as in the case of Robin Williams' daughter, among others. Persistent presence in social media The social media strategy used during the campaign gave continuity and visibility to the campaign throughout a period of almost three months. Catchy press releases It is obvious that many of the news articles drew on the title of the second press release, which was specially geared to capturing the interest of the media, since it was clear, catchy and forceful. The article in the Washington Post that triggered the attention of the other media afterwards was the result of a journalist contacting us after receiving the press release. End violence: Women's rights and safety online - Communications report 2014 60 Facts and figures Sending out a first press release when the campaign started sparked initial interest. Sending out a second press release when we had figures and more substantial data gave the journalists a solid foundation to build up the news. The campaign was based on a rating system, which allowed the information to draw on figures in a straightforward manner that attracted the media. Clear objectives Big media outlets struggle to digest the information received, and even more so when it is debate-oriented as opposed to fact-oriented. In the case of the TBTT campaign and the research results, we were clear on what we wanted to get from internet intermediaries, why we were asking them to address VAW as an important issue, and what we wanted from users and the ways they could cooperate. Attractive visuals A set of attractive visuals was developed exclusively for the campaign, drawing on the general TBTT visual identity. It is interesting to note how many of the articles used the TBTT campaign visuals for their own publications. Snowball effect If we pay attention to the dates when the mainstream media channels featured the news, it is possible to reduce the timeframe to a threeday period, which demonstrates two things. First, they are looking at each other's content (in some cases they belong to the same media group and worked on collaborative articles), generating a kind of “snowball effect”: a big media outlet features the news, so then it becomes newsworthy for many others. Second, local mainstream media such as O Globo from Brazil or Slate.fr from France turned the global news into a more context-adapted news piece, but again we can see the influence of the global mainstream media in the timely attention given to the subject. End violence: Women's rights and safety online - Communications report 2014 61 Email distribution full list Contact Organisation Karine Poirier AMARC Annie Wilkinson Benetech Amina Doherty Activist Paola Brambilla Bridge editor@civicus.org CIVICUS Mandeep Tiwana CIVICUS Anna Turley AWID World Pulse World Pulse Leana Mayzlina World Pulse Jensine Larsen World Pulse GATE GATE Mauro Cabral GATE Justus Eisfeld GATE Brian IGLHRC IPS-Inter Press Service North America IPS-Inter Press Service North America Global Fund for Women Global Fund for Women Michaela Leslie-Rule Global Fund for Women Virginia Prasmickaite International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer Youth a Ariel Herrera Freedom House Thilaga Sulathireh Freedom House Miwa Kubosaki Freedom House Sanja Kelly Freedom House Maya Ganesh Tactical Technology Collective Faith Bosworth Tactical Tech Patricia Curzi International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA) Sahar Habib Ghazi Global Voices Paula Goes Global Voices Matthew French Heartland Alliance End violence: Women's rights and safety online - Communications report 2014 62 Devi Leiper O'Malley FRIDA The Young Feminist Fund Ruby Johnson FRIDA The Young Feminist Fund Danna Ingleton Amnesty International Bridge Bridge Georgina Aboud Bridge Alyson Brody Bridge Lisa Anderson Thomson Reuters Foundation - Trust Law Connect Maria Caspani Thomson Reuters Foundation - Trust Law Connect Jessica Coen Jezebel Dodai Stewart Jezebel Sokari Ekine Jessica Horn Sexual Rights Initiative Sexual Rights Initiative James Savage Amnesty International Front Line Defenders Front Line Defenders Melody Patry Index on Censorship Mary Elizabeth Williams Salon.com RESURJ Neela Ghoshal Human Rights Watch Monica Tabengwa Human Rights Watch Boris Dittrich Human Rights Watch FTMInternational Trans Media Watch NSWP, Global Network of Sex Work Projects Sylvie Niombo AZUR Développement Polly Gaster Kelly Daniels i freedom Uganda (Network) Shereen Essof Just Associates - Southern Africa Anna Davies-van Es JASS - Southern Africa IGLHRC - Africa Programs IGLHRC - Africa Programs End violence: Women's rights and safety online - Communications report 2014 63 IPS-Inter Press Service Africa IPS-Inter Press Service Africa Pambazuka News (FAHAMU) Pambazuka News (FAHAMU) African Feminist Forum African Feminist Forum Anne Webb GRACE Network Teboho Maitse Comission for Gender (South Africa) Marion Stevens African Gender Institute Razia Saleh Nelson Mandela Foundation Sally Shackleton Sex Workers Education & Advocacy Taskforce (SWEAT) Sian Maseko Sexual Rights Center (Zimbabwe) Rebecca Mahlunge Humanist Institute for Cooperation with Developing Countries (Hivos) Françoise Mukuku Si Jeunesse Savait Steave Nemande Alternatives-Cameroun Lame Charmaine Olebile International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA) Mac-Darling Cobbinah Cepherg Coalition of African Lesbians Coalition of African Lesbians Dawn Cavanagh Coalition of African Lesbians Fadzai Muparutsa Coalition of African Lesbians Jabulani Chen Pereira Iranti-org Neo Musangi Iranti-org Lucy Mung'ala Humanist Institute for Cooperation with Developing Countries (Hivos) Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah African Women Development Fund (AWDF) African Gender Institute Barbara Boswell AGI Anthony Manion GALA Kevin Chiramba GenderLinks Kelly-Anne Cleophas Women's Legal Center Mahlatse Mpya Tshwaranang Legal Advocacy Centre Antonia Porter Center for Conflict Resolution Jabu Pereira IRANTI Gender Dynamix End violence: Women's rights and safety online - Communications report 2014 64 Durban Lesbian and Gay Health Centre Nina Benjamin Labour Research Service Virginia Setshedi LGBTIQ activist (SA) Carrie Shelver 1in9 campaign Kwezilomso Mbandazayo 1in9 campaign EVA Transgender Intersex Africa Brenda Kombo Solidarity for African Women's Rights (SOAWR) Rola Yasmine The A Project amr@eipr.org Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights Hossein Alizadeh IGLHRC - MENA Programs Alqaws Alqaws Raynbow Raynbow Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights Tarek Salama Nazra Zeina Zaatari Ex-Global Fund MENA Director Rima Abboud ASWAT - Palestinian queers Coalition for Sexual and Bodily Rights in Muslim Societies Angelika Arutyun AWID (ex Global Fund ECIS Director) Nighat Dad Digital Rights Foundation Chaitali Bhatia CREA Felix Lapuz Foundation for Media Alternatives (FMA) Niken Lestari Forum Aktivis PereMpuan Muda Indonesia (Young Indonesian Women Activists' Forum) Hendriati Trianita EngageMedia Kathy Clarin ISIS Women Betong delos Reyes ISIS Women IGLHRC - Asia Programs IGLHRC - Asia Programs IPS Asia-Pacific Foundation Inc. IPS Asia-Pacific Foundation Inc. jjcjosef@gmail.com International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA) End violence: Women's rights and safety online - Communications report 2014 65 Benjamin Barreto Foundation for Media Alternatives (FMA) Jelen Paclarin Women's Legal Bureau (WLB) Tam Nguyen Aahung IGLHRC - LAC Programs IGLHRC - LAC Programs IPS-Inter Press Service Latin America IPS-Inter Press Service Latin America Marina Maria Sexuality Policy Watch Raquel Andrade International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA) Fernando D'Elio Akahata Coalition Advocating for Inclusion of Sexual Orientation (CAISO) Coalition Advocating for Inclusion of Sexual Orientation (CAISO) CODE RED CODE RED Red de Salud LAC Balance Nodo Tau Neha Sood Action Canada for Population and Development (ACPD) Sarah Kennel Action Canada for Population and Development (ACPD) Polish Federation For Women and Family Planning Polish Federation For Women and Family Planning Alice Nah Centre for Applied Human Rights, University of York Karen Bennett Human Rights & Social Justice Research Institute, London Metropolitan University Stephen Wood Institute of Development studies (IDS) Miriam Fahmy Institut du Nouveau Monde Malorie Flon Institut du Nouveau Monde Nicole Nepton Cybersolidaires Monique Chartrand Communautique Sophie Toupin Activist ASTRA Network Grace Wilentz YouAct Nyx McLean Coalition of African Lesbians Sheena Magenya End violence: Women's rights and safety online - Communications report 2014 66 Sisters in Islam Suri Kempe Kelly Daniels Uganda Network Bishakha Point of View Pink Space Xiaopei He Urgent Action Fund Meerim Ilyas-Chin Masa Amir Urgent Action Fund Africa Melissa Hope Maureen James, Amy, Marie-Hélène IFEX Swarna Prajnya Beatrice Frey Say No UNiTE Soraya Chemaly Renata Avila Web We Want Maggie JASS Esther Garcia Fransiolo UN Women Bosnia and Herzegovina Anna Nikoghosyan Society Without Violence Isis WICCE Anna Turley AWID Shaikh Rafia Sarwar Rosebell Qagumire Speakout Uganda Mina Farzad WAM Nancy Schwartzman Circle of 6 Holly Kearl Stop Street Harassment Sasha Rakoff Stand Up for Women Michaela Svatasova Gender Studies WGNRR Elvira Buijink European Women's Lobby End violence: Women's rights and safety online - Communications report 2014 67 Appendix III: Figures in detail of unique visitors and visits to GenderIT.org per month during 2014 Month Unique visitors Number of visits January 2014 6750 29142 February 2014 6413 24191 March 2014 7848 27540 April 2014 8200 25735 May 2014 11095 39708 June 2014 13553 42101 July 2014 12393 40539 August 2014 10777 40956 September 2014 15656 45787 October 2014 12383 33125 End violence: Women's rights and safety online - Communications report 2014 68 November 2014 12348 32420 December 2014 9545 28851 126961 410095 Total End violence: Women's rights and safety online - Communications report 2014 69