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 is a submission from End Cyber Abuse, a global collective of lawyers and human rights advocates working to tackle technology-facilitated gender-based violence by raising awareness of rights, shifting cultural norms, advocating for survivor-centered systems of justice, and advancing equitable design of technology to prevent gendered harms. We focus on South Asia, particularly India, in …
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Content warning: this primer includes references to and an exploration of rape culture and rape threats. In May 2020, the “Bois Locker Room” incident went viral and was met with outrage in India and across the world. During this incident, it was discovered that a group of 16 to 19 year old boys from elite …
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On Tuesday, January 28th, End Cyber Abuse had the pleasure of hosting our first webinar, A Spotlight on Legal Efforts to End Image Based Sexual Abuse. The webinar was conducted in collaboration with our legal research partner, Trustlaw, Thomas Reuters Foundation’s global pro bono subsidiary. In case you missed it, click here to access the …
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Please join End Cyber Abuse and TrustLaw, Thomson Reuters Foundation for an online webinar panel discussion to launch End Cyber Abuse’s new resource: a set of factsheets documenting the laws and legal remedies that survivors and victims of image-based sexual abuse (also known as ‘revenge porn’) can access across 10 countries. Our factsheets were developed …
On Sunday 1st December, End Cyber Abuse held a collaborative event in Mumbai with our India research partner, One Future Collective, seeking to encourage an open dialogue on image-based sexual abuse. The panel discussed sexting and consent in India today and how the law does — or does not — help in cases of abuse. …
