Gender-based violence Combating Cyber Violence against Women and Girls

Combating Cyber Violence against Women and Girls Gender-based violence Combating Cyber Violence against Women and Girls European Institute for Gender Equality Combating Cyber Violence against Women and Girls Acknowledgements This report is based on a study on cyber violence to the analysis of statistical definitions, and Camille against women and girls in the European Union, Fiadzo (VVA) and Jessi. [...] Definitions should motion of a comprehensive framework for tack- include gender and intersectional dimensions ling all forms of violence against women and girls and acknowledge the ‘online–offline’ continuum and CVAWG should be included as a constitutive of violence between the digital and the physical element. [...] The overview ognising gender-based cyber violence as a allowed the team to collect and analyse EU and form of violence against women and girls national policies on CVAWG and its different (VAWG) and improving the collection of sex-dis- forms, to map EU-wide national quantitative and aggregated data in this area across the EU. [...] Also Interpol, in charge of the phy’ does not emphasise the non-consensual International Child Sexual Exploitation Data- nature of the practices, and the term ‘revenge’ base, points out that any sexual image of a child only focuses on the presumed motive of the per- counts as ‘abuse’ and ‘exploitation’, it represents petrator, excluding the experience and rights of documented evidence of a crime i. [...] Istanbul Convention on Although the convention does not make explicit reference to the cyber sphere or the use of ICT in those preventing and combating articles, the explanatory report to the convention underlines that, specifically in relation to Article 34 on violence against women and stalking, the threatening behaviour may consist of following the victim in the virtual world (chat rooms, domes.