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MEDIA BRIEF: Cultivating Violence Through Technology? Exploring the Connections between Internet Communication Technologies and Violence Against Women

Posted Tue 1 Jun 2010 - 23:32 | 6,022 views
This brief is a condensed version of the issue paper with the same title written by Jac sm Kee for APC WNSP. The paper explores the connection between new information communication technologies (ICTs) and violence against women (VAW). From the perspective of representation and rapid dissemination of information and communication enabled through ICTs, the paper looks at domestic violence in the…

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WSIS Gender Caucus Position on Internet Governance - Prepcom 3 (19 September,2005)

Posted Tue 1 Jun 2010 - 23:32 | 2,361 views
The WSIS GC opening position on the issue of internet governance distributed at PrepCom-3 in Geneva.

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WSIS Gender Caucus Briefing Statement I for PrepCom-3 (23 September,2005)

Posted Tue 1 Jun 2010 - 23:32 | 2,574 views
The WSIS GC positions in relation to some points debated at PrepCom-3 such as the key principles, the implementation&way ahead mechanism, and the issues of financing and internet governance.

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WSIS Gender Caucus Statement on Internet Governance to WSIS Prepcom 3 Subcommittee A (27 September,2005)

Posted Tue 1 Jun 2010 - 23:32 | 2,337 views
The statement submitted by AMARC Africa, FEMNET, and TERRE DES FEMMES on behalf of the WSIS-Gender Caucus concerns the missing reference to gender in the Chair’s Draft of Chapter 3 on internet governance.

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Interconnection costs

Posted Tue 1 Jun 2010 - 23:32 | 3,200 views
This paper produced by South African Mike Jensen covers increasing North-South inequities (“paying both ways”) and proposed strategies for minimising the disparities in interconnection rates, accelerating the restructuring of the communications sector, supporting the establishment of national and international internet exchange points, and building local demand for national and international…

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Women's human rights: violence against women, pornography and ICTs

Posted Tue 1 Jun 2010 - 23:32 | 6,409 views
The position paper presented by Jac sm Kee from APC WNSP at Women Claiming The Information Society (WOCTIS), 11 September 2005, Berlin, examined the relationship between violence against women and information societies, using the recent debate about '.xxx' as a site for examination.

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Seoul-Gyeonggi Declaration on the Equal Participation of Women in the Information Society

Posted Tue 1 Jun 2010 - 23:32 | 2,857 views
This declaration is produced by gender and ICT advocates who met separately after the Women's World Conference 2005, at Sookmyung Women's University to discuss gender and ICT issues at the World Summit for the Information Society (WSIS 2005) that produced the Seoul-Gyeonggi Declaration.

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Malaysian gov't must review laws to free media and information

Posted Tue 1 Jun 2010 - 23:32 | 3,785 views
The paper outlines various discriminatory practices that have been faced from the laws on media and communications in Malaysia, as compelling reasons why the legislations must be reformed.

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Comments by S. Huyer to WGIG on Draft Working Papers Identifying Issues for Internet Governance

Posted Tue 1 Jun 2010 - 23:32 | 3,608 views
Comments submitted on the 'draft working papers' prepared by the Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG) members, and discussed at the meeting in Geneva in February, 2005.

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Gender Equity, Telecommunication Development and the ITU

Posted Tue 1 Jun 2010 - 23:32 | 4,344 views
Canadian International Development Agency submission to the second ITU World Telecommunication Development Conference (Malta, 1998) argues for the recognition of gender implication and the incorporation of the needs of both women and men in the telecommunication development .