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Sexual rights in Indonesia: Creating and protecting safe spaces for women minority groups
While the internet empowers women living with HIV/AIDS by providing information about their right to privacy, internet rights in Indonesia are being threatened by government practices of blocking and filtering content. During the last Internet Governance Forum that took place in October 2013 in Bali, APC talked to Indonesian activist Kamilia Manaf about the challenges that sexual rights and…
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Bosnia and Herzegovina: Women are vulnerable online, but also speaking up on the internet
During the last Internet Governance Forum, which took place in October in Bali, Indonesia, Analía Lavin from APCNews talked to Aida Mahmutović, from APC member Owpsee in Bosnia and Herzegovina. OWPSEE is one of the national partners of APC’s project “End violence: women’s rights and safety online”.
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Islas Cook: Impulso para que las mujeres lideren el desarrollo de internet en el país
Analía Lavin entrevistó a Maureen Hilyard, una de las autoras del informe sobre las Islas Cook para el Monitor mundial sobre la sociedad de la información 2013, junto con Alexis Wolfgramm y Lynnsay Rongokea, de la Pan Pacific and Southeast Asia Women’s Association. La entrevista giró en torno de los principales problemas que enfrentan las mujeres de Islas Cook en línea, la igualdad de género en…
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Cook Islands: Pushing for women leaders
The Global Information Society Watch Cook Islands report was released, written by Maureen Hilyard, Alexis Wolfgramm and Lynnsay Rongokea from the Pan Pacific and Southeast Asia Women’s Association. Analía Lavin interviewed Maureen Hilyard, one of the authors, on the main issues women face online, on gender equality in the political system, and on the role of the media.
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New research on sexuality and the internet is an “eye-opener”
Gus Hossein, Director of Privacy International, speaks candidly of his take on the EROTICS research project and its potential impact and value on the work on privacy rights.
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El porno y yo
“Hablábamos de sexo sin parar, pero con mucha más imaginación y menos información”, recuerda Analia Lavin del equipo de comunicaciones de APC ante el recuerdo de su pre-adolescencia evocado por las discusiones sobre regulación de contenidos en internet que se dio en uno de los talleres del FGI.
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How to look at censorship with a gender lens
Heike Jensen and Sonia Randhawa, APC WRP members participating in a gender team of the OpenNet Initiative in Asia (ONI-Asia), talk about how censorship and gender interrelate. Since 2006, APC WRP has taken a closer look at internet censorship and surveillance practices from a gender perspective in order to develop a gender research framework for examining freedom of expression, security and…
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Video: Talking about section J - Games for social change
Heidi Boisvert, from Breakthrough, talks about their experience with videogames and how she thinks the feminist movement can be involved.
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Video: Talking about section J - Access to Internet in Lebanon
Nadine Moawad talks about what's going on the internet in Lebanon from a gender perspective.
