AMMAN — The
Information and Research Center-King Hussein Foundation (IRCKHF) on Monday held a session introducing an
initiative concerned with digital gender-based violence issues to a group of
women activists and journalists involved in defending women’s and human rights.
اضافة اعلان
The Digital Safety
for Women and Youth in the
MENA region Program (Salam@), that launched the
initiative, aims to change perceptions and behaviors toward digital safety,
increase public awareness, and build the lasting capacity of women, youth, and
civil society organizations to operate safely online, its site says.
Salam@ is a multi-year initiative implemented by the
Canadian SecDev Foundation in seven Arab countries: Jordan, Libya, Algeria,
Tunisia, Morocco, Kuwait, and Bahrain.
The program adopts a “public health” approach to
addressing online risk and violence, including online
gender-based violence (GBV), through working closely with local partners.
Salam@ activities include public media campaigns,
training, and awareness-raising activities, digital clinics, technical, and
psychosocial support.
The initiative aims to build a network of women
well-trained on internet freedom and issues of gender-based violence
specifically related to the internet, and empower them to advocate and talk
about gender-based violence issues.
It also intends to
make a model by documenting the progress of the process and the way of
implementing the project activities so that the model may be applied in the
region.
The session tackled spreading awareness and
increasing education related to the issues of digital violence that women are
exposed to by disseminating the knowledge gained.
Participants in the session learned about digital
violence in the framework of the
Cybercrime Law. They were also introduced to
the psychological and psychological dimensions of cyber violence against women,
the role of individuals in combating gender-based violence in the digital
space, as well as to the digital safety movement in Jordan and the role of
activists and civil society in this regard.
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