On Tuesday 1 October, the European Women’s Lobby presented a report on cyber-violence against women and girls.
The analysis, which provides an overview of the various forms of online violence and a set of policy recommendations for dealing with them, states that 10% of women in the European Union have already been victims of cyber-violence, in particular cyber-stalking, sexual cyber-stalking and non-consensual dissemination of intimate content.
Other types of violence include doxing, the publication of personal information, and digital manipulation of a sexual nature. The growing use of technologies such as artificial intelligence and virtual reality to perpetrate this abuse has also been identified.
The authors, who point out that such violence is facilitated by the anonymity, speed of dissemination and lack of strict regulation on major digital platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and TikTok, recommend harmonising legal definitions at European level, and better training for law enforcement officers to respond to victims’ reports.
Read the report: https://aeur.eu/f/dnw (Original version in French by Nithya Paquiry)