TAKING ACTION AGAINST TECH-FACILITATED GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE: TOOLKIT FOR TRAINERS AND ADVOCATES

The document serves as a comprehensive guide to understanding and monitoring tech-facilitated gender-based violence (TFGBV). It defines various forms of digital abuse, analyzes the current media landscape, and provides a detailed manual for manual social media monitoring to identify misogyny and sexist hate speech. The toolkit aims to generate evidence for the Ecumenical Gender and Media Observatory to support advocacy with policymakers and digital platforms.

• Tech-facilitated gender-based violence (TFGBV) encompasses a wide range of abuses, including doxing, sextortion, hacking, and gendered disinformation, the latter of which uses false narratives to deter women from participating in the public sphere.
• Digital violence can have impacts as severe as offline violence, causing psychological harm such as depression and suicide, as well as political, societal, and economic harm by silencing women and increasing the digital gender divide.
• Prevalence rates of technology-facilitated violence against women and girls vary significantly due to inconsistent definitions, with some reports indicating a range between 16% and 58%.
• A 2020 study by the Economist Intelligence Unit identified the most common forms of online violence as misinformation and defamation (67%), cyber harassment (66%), and hate speech (65%).
• Manual social media monitoring is presented as a necessary supplement to AI-assisted monitoring because it can identify 'microaggressions' and belittling content that often evade automated algorithms.
• The toolkit identifies women in the public eye—such as journalists, politicians, and rights activists—as being at higher risk of targeted sexist hate speech and digital attacks.

APA

Macharia, S., Speicher, S., & Ashwood, N. (2024). TAKING ACTION AGAINST TECH-FACILITATED GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE: TOOLKIT FOR TRAINERS AND ADVOCATES. World Association for Christian Communication. https://waccglobal.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Taking-Action-Against-TFGBV-Toolkit_EN.pdf

Chicago

Macharia, Sarah, Sara Speicher, and Nicole Ashwood. TAKING ACTION AGAINST TECH-FACILITATED GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE: TOOLKIT FOR TRAINERS AND ADVOCATES. World Association for Christian Communication, 2024. https://waccglobal.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Taking-Action-Against-TFGBV-Toolkit_EN.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{macharia2024taking, author = {Macharia, Sarah and Speicher, Sara and Ashwood, Nicole}, title = {{TAKING ACTION AGAINST TECH-FACILITATED GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE: TOOLKIT FOR TRAINERS AND ADVOCATES}}, institution = {World Association for Christian Communication}, year = {2024}, url = {https://waccglobal.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Taking-Action-Against-TFGBV-Toolkit_EN.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }