Violence against women engaged in the political and public sphere

Women and members of gender minorities who are active in the public sphere are under attack. This is a key challenge in our efforts to promote women’s leadership, equal political participation and empowerment. It goes hand in hand with the promotion of traditional gender norms as a global tendency that is particularly strong in increasingly conservative and authoritarian contexts (gender backlash). Cyber violence is a particularly widespread form of violence to control women.

The webinar series took place on these dates: 26 January | 22 March | 5 December 2023.
Here below you find all documents organised according to the session.

• Session ONE [26 January]

  • Learning Brief 1: Understanding Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence

    PDF290.83 kB26 January 2023

  • Learning Brief 2: Strategies and Actions for Preventing and Responding to Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence

    PDF299.96 kB26 January 2023

  • Learning Brief 3: Implications of Technology for Humanitarian Agencies

    PDF148.13 kB26 January 2023

  • Technology Facilitated Gender Based Violence

    PDF977.98 kB25 January 2023

  • Group discussion

    PDF69.87 kB26 January 2023

  • UNFPA Technology-facilitated Gender-based Violence: Making All Spaces Safe (link)

• Session TWO [22 March]

  • Online Violence Against Women in Public / Political Participation

    PDF4.95 MB22 March 2023

• Session THREE [5 December]

  The objectives of the webinar are to:

  • Gain a better understanding of how to identify and name violence against women in the media, particularly journalists
  • Learn from experiences and initiatives in the media and professional organizations to prevent such violence
  • Reflect on how to use the media to raise society's awareness of these problems of violence against women journalists and women in the media

  For this webinar, we will be joined by Emma Heywood from the University of Sheffield in the UK, who will share her knowledge and experience of violence against women journalists, as well as Jackie Dalton, Editorial Manager of the Fondation Hirondelle, and other witnesses and experts.

  Les objectifs du webinaire sont les suivants:

  • Mieux comprendre comment identifier et nommer la violence à l'égard des femmes dans les médias, en particulier chez les journalistes
  • Tirer parti des expériences et des initiatives des médias et des organisations professionnelles pour prévenir cette violence
  • Réfléchir à la manière d'utiliser les médias pour sensibiliser la société à ces problèmes de violence à l'égard des femmes journalistes et des femmes dans les médias

  Pour ce webinaire, nous serons rejoints par Emma Heywood de l'Université de Sheffield au Royaume-Uni, qui partagera ses connaissances et son expérience de la violence contre les femmes journalistes, ainsi que par Jackie Dalton, responsable éditoriale de la Fondation Hirondelle, et d'autres témoins et experts.

  • Violence Against Women in Media

    PDF2.05 MB5 December 2023