The last decade has been signified with the blooming of digital technologies for work, socialising and entertainment purposes.
Digital platforms that allow commenting, socialising and interacting with one another are abundantly available and range from social media and discussion forums to games and news portals. On the positive side, these digital platforms laid the ground for promoting equality among people as everyone is allowed to express their opinion and have their voice heard irrespective of their identity, economic or social status.
On the other hand, however, this open for comments and sharing of images space has provided new grounds for harmful and violent acts and has surfaced a new set of risks and threats for the people. victims. Examples of these acts include but are not limited to cyber harassment, ICT-related hate crime, cybercrime and online sexual exploitation; and are all included under the Umbrella term of “Cyber Violence”.
Study on Violence Against Women and Girls in Cyberspace (CVAWG)
A specific part of those acts are Gender Based Violence, explicitly directed towards girls and women, with perpetrators that found new ways to harm women and girls with the violent acts committed now initiating offline and continuing online or vice versa.
Even though there are many initiatives educating or informing young people on GBV, gender equality or online risks, Cyber Violence Against Women and Girls (CVAWG) is not covered in any of them, as it is a new threat, which has yet to be addressed.
The aim of CyberEqual is to educate and raise the awareness of young people on Cyber Violence Against Women and Girls (CVAWG) and its associated implications. More specifically, interactive activities on CVAWG will be developed and will be complemented by a training guide to be used by youth workers, educators and other relevant professionals interested to deliver such training to young people, either through the school environment or through their organisational activities.
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The objectives of the project are:
Increase of knowledge on the prevalence, legislation, awareness-raising practices and education on the issue of Cyber Violence Against Women and Girls;
Raise the awareness and educate young people, youth workers and other professionals on Cyber Violence Against Women and Girls;
Motivate girls and young women to protect themselves from Cyber Violence against them;
Equip youth workers and other professionals with the tools to educate and combat Cyber Violence Against Women & Girls.
Tho achieve this, the following results will be produced during the project:
Partner country mapping on the issue of Cyber Violence Against Women and Girls focusing on prevalence, legislation, awareness raising practices and educational needs identification;
Design and development of interactive activities aiming to educate and raise the awareness of young people on CVAWG;
Design and development of an eGuide with instructions on how to use the activities developed, aimed to be exploited by youth workers and other professionals;
Implementation of the activities developed to young people & dissemination of the project’s results;
Implementation of Train the Trainers workshops on how to exploit and run the eGuide developed
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