Tackling cyber violence against women and girls: The role of digital platforms

Tackling cyber violence against women and girls: The role of digital platforms Tackling cyber violence against women and girls: The role of digital platforms Tackling cyber violence against women and girls: The role of digital platforms The European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) produces independent research and shares best practice to promote gender equality and eliminate discrimination ba. [...] ▪ This lack of a gender-sensitive approach ▪ The standards and trust and safety policies at the level of reporting, recording and of the platforms make little reference to responding to different forms of violence relevant human rights acts or important online renders the scale of the phenomenon legislative advances in the fight against of cyber violence against women and girls gender-based violen. [...] Cyber violence against women and girls The accurate assessment of the prevalence (CVAWG) occurs as part of the broader and incidence of CVAWG is essential to continuum of gender-based violence (GBV), further inform EU Member State policies and which is embedded in persisting unbalanced legislation across the European Union, and power structures. [...] ▪ have terms and conditions in place stating The platform representatives interviewed the agreement between the user and referred to the difficulty they have with user the platform and covering the platform’s age verification and the verification of other expectations of the user in terms of conduct, personal characteristics given digital privacy privacy, platform rights and payment (16); rights. [...] (37) Actions and penalties: the actions that platforms already take as a result of complaints depend on the nature of the platform and the severity of the offence; however, in most cases (including for Facebook/Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and Snapchat), these actions include removing the offending content and imposing some form of penalty on the account that shared the offending content (e.g.