WACC Call to Action: "Support Take back the Tech"

November 27, 2011

16 Days Campaign

The evolution of internet, mobile phone and other information-communication technologies maybe enabling faster and easier communication and social interaction across the globe but it is also a space where girls and women are vulnerable to violence.

That is why there is an urgent need to map and build evidence that supports advocacy and action to end such violence.

On November 25 WACC - the World Association of Christian Communications, the coordinators of the Global Media Monitoring Project called on its networks and friends to participate in the takebackthetech campaign to end online violence against women and girls.

The campaign which is organised by APC Women has been a key initiative for several years raising awareness of the violence that exists online.

FemLINKPacific is a member of WACC and has been associated with APC Women in various forum associated with the World Summit on the Information Society.

APC Women is a global network that supports women networking for social change and women's empowerment through the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs).

The focus of the campaign during the 16 Days this year is to map and build evidence of technology-related violence against girls and women.

You can go to www.takebackthetech.net/mapit to map your stories of technology-related violence against women and girls.

You are encouraged to document stories that have appeared in your local news about:

• Culturally-justified violence against women (25 November)


• Online harassment and cyberstalking (28 November)


• Intimate partner violence (1 December)


• Sexual assault and rape (4 December)


• Violence targeting communities because of their gender or sexual identity and politics (7 December)

To learn more about the campaign, watch the video at https://www.youtube.com/user/takebackthetech#p/a/u/0/DCwK8Y1Unr4

Read about the campaign and other ways to participate at http://www.takebackthetech.net/take-action/2011/11/15.

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Sharon Bhagwan Rolls
Executive Director
femLINKPACIFIC
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www.femlinkpacific.org.fj

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