<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif">Listers,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif">I am supporting @Cecilia on this topic.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif">First, in 2015, The U.N. Broadband Commission<a href="http://www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2015/9/cyber-violence-report-press-release"> reported</a> that one in five young women has been sexually harassed online. Amnesty International ’s <a href="https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2018/03/toxic-twitter-online-abuse-and-violence-against-women/">report</a> suggested that over three-quarters of women and girls expected violence and abuse if they expressed an opinion online. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif">The need to end gender-based violence against women continue to be the subject of global discourse. This is an issue in Kenya too. Case in point, Technology-assisted Violence Against Women (TAVAW). For instance, recent cases: </div><div class="gmail_default"><ol><li><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">Radio Jambo Presenter <a href="http://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2018/07/11/annitah-raey-cyberbullied-for-talking-about-rape_c1784561">Annitah Raey ‘cyberbullied’ for talking about rape</a> via @TheStarKenya <br></font></li><li><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">Today in the East African, Nerima Wako, ED, Siasa Place writes that "Twitter is a safe space for insecure men with fake handles and no volume control" <br>she says "When you defend yourself online as a woman, people judge you for how you speak because apparently, women have to behave in a certain way. They should not curse or yell, otherwise they will be seen as having no class. But men have no rules."<br><br></font></li></ol><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">I am not defending men in this case, but it should be noted that women are attacked more than men online.</font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">Some of the measures that have been proposed before, borrowing a leaf from<a href="https://icj-kenya.org/jdownloads/Publications/ICJ%20Kenya%20Policy%20Brief%20on%20ETAVAW.pdf"> Hivos and ICJ Kenya</a>:</font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><div><img src="cid:ii_jjl3m1jn0" alt="image.png" width="425" height="472"><br></div><div><img src="cid:ii_jjl3n8l21" alt="image.png" width="450" height="131"><br></div><div>Is this enough? in addressing this issue amicably? </div><br></font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><b style="font-size:12.8px;color:rgb(153,0,0);font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif">Kind Regards,</b><br></div></div></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin-top:6pt"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif" color="#990000"><b></b></font></p><p></p><p style="font-size:small"></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin-top:6pt"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif" color="#990000"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt">David Indeje </span></b></font></p></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><p style="color:rgb(74,74,74);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:15px;margin:0px 0px 5px"><img src="https://cytonn.sheerhr.com/signature/icon/ico-phone.png" alt="" border="0" style="max-height: 15px; vertical-align: bottom; width: auto;"> +254 (0) 711 385 945| +254 (0) 734 024 856 <img src="https://cytonn.sheerhr.com/signature/icon/ico-web.png" alt="" border="0" style="max-height: 15px; vertical-align: bottom; width: auto;"> <a href="http://bit.ly/2eJF9B4" target="_blank">Khusoko</a></p><p style="line-height:15px;margin:15px 0px 5px"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/DavidIndeje/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank"><img src="https://cytonn.sheerhr.com/signature/icon/facebook-ico.png" alt="" style="max-height: 15px; vertical-align: bottom; width: auto;"> </a><a href="https://twitter.com/David_Indeje" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin-left:10px" target="_blank"><img src="https://cytonn.sheerhr.com/signature/icon/twitter-ico.png" alt="" style="max-height: 15px; vertical-align: bottom; width: auto;"> </a><a href="http://ke.linkedin.com/pub/david-indeje/17/7b9/647" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin-left:10px" target="_blank"><img src="https://cytonn.sheerhr.com/signature/icon/linkedin-ico.png" alt="" style="max-height: 15px; vertical-align: bottom; width: auto;"></a> <font face="Arial, sans-serif" color="#666666"><span style="font-size:13px">Skype: david.indeje </span></font></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, 14 Jul 2018 at 10:18, cmaundu--- via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><p style="padding:0px;margin:0px;line-height:1">Hello Listers </p><p style="padding:0px;margin:0px;line-height:1"><br></p><p style="padding:0px;margin:0px;line-height:1"><br></p><p style="padding:0px;margin:0px;line-height:1"><br></p><p style="padding:0px;margin:0px;line-height:1">The Internet and mobile technologies have created new ways to connect, share resources and experiences, and build communities. However despite<span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"> the internet offering great solutions and innovations to how people access information, online violence has been on the rise especially against women but remains a silent epidemic in Kenya. These </span>digital spaces have provided tools and platforms for the replication and continuation of the perpetration of violence against women.”</p><p style="padding:0px;margin:0px;line-height:1;height:11pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"></span></p><ul class="m_1527296616667166903lst-kix_vc0qh0awmo0c-0 m_1527296616667166903start" style="list-style-type:none;padding:0px;margin:0px"><li style="padding:0px;line-height:1;margin:0px 0px 0px 36pt;text-align:left"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">1. How is it a problem for Kenya?</span></li><li style="padding:0px;line-height:1;margin:0px 0px 0px 36pt;text-align:left"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></li><li style="padding:0px;line-height:1;margin:0px 0px 0px 36pt;text-align:left"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">2. How should it be addressed?</span></li><li style="padding:0px;line-height:1;margin:0px 0px 0px 36pt;text-align:left"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></li><li style="padding:0px;line-height:1;margin:0px 0px 0px 36pt;text-align:left"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">3. Is enough being done at the moment?</span></li><li style="padding:0px;line-height:1;margin:0px 0px 0px 36pt;text-align:left"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"> What are the measures that need to be </span></li><li style="padding:0px;line-height:1;margin:0px 0px 0px 36pt;text-align:left"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"> taken to create safe spaces for women </span></li><li style="padding:0px;line-height:1;margin:0px 0px 0px 36pt;text-align:left"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"> online? </span></li></ul><br><div>Let’s engage </div><div><br></div><div>Cecilia Maundu </div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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