This GenderIT.org edition offers reflections on language and actions surrounding issues of technology-related forms of violence against women (VAW). We’re looking at these in the perspective/context of the APC project “End violence: Women’s rights and safety online” and the 57th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) which took place between 4-15 March in New York.

The 2012 Take Back the Tech! campaign, a collaborative campaign that takes place annually during the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-based Violence, featured 16 stories for 16 days. Each of these stories presented a different way how internet and mobile technologies affect the lives of women and girls around the world.