By Chitrangada Sharma and Akhila Kolisetty; Edited by Esha Meher At End Cyber Abuse (ECA), we’re working to address gender-based violence in digital spaces. We do this by raising awareness of rights, advocating for survivor-centered systems of justice and advancing equitable design for technology to prevent gendered harms. Now, we are partnering with Chayn …
On March 17th, 2021, End Cyber Abuse hosted a workshop at MozFest, ‘Mini-Hackathon on Tackling Technology-Facilitated Gender Violence (TGBV).’ We aimed to ideate around the possible technological solutions that would help guide survivors of TGBV in understanding their rights and options, as well as seeking support.
Since early February 2020, sex workers have hustled to save their profession, and most importantly, their agency over it. Sandwiched between the COVID-led economic slump and patriarchal anti-sex work logics, the current times have proved severely challenging for the community. Economically and socially marginalized communities have borne the brunt of the pandemic, but sex workers …
By Josie Gleave After years of victims and activists trying to raise actionable awareness about image-based sexual abuse (IBSA) and child sexual abuse material (CSAM) online, the issue went viral this month. It began with a New York Times op-ed by the Pulitzer prize winning journalist Nicholas Kristof who pointed the finger at Pornhub for …
This article has been authored by End Cyber Abuse team members, Esha Meher and Sailaja Darisipudi. Views and opinions expressed are those of the authors’. When you are a little girl, they tell you you can be anybody. You can be a veterinarian, an astronaut or the President of your country! The world is an …
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In less than two months, we grow a year older as a society that has built, adopted, and co-existed with various technologies. Throughout history, we have fought the unintended consequences of the technologies that we created, and each time, we encounter an opportunity to better our understanding of the human psyche, our socio-cultural and economic …
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