Gender & IG news

Internet control points as LGBT rights mediation This paper examines how various functional areas of internet governance, such as the assignment of domain names, the policy-making role of private information intermediaries, and intellectual property rights enforcement mechanisms serve as control

Balancing rights and interests: Best practices to counter online abuse and violence The IGF Best Practice Forum on Online Abuse and Gender-Based Violence Against Women took place in Joao Pessoa, Brazil in November 2015. Representatives of civil society, academia and

IGF 2015 Best Practice Forum: Online Abuse and Gender-Based Violence Against Women Report The 2015 IGF Best Practice Forum (BPF) on Online Abuse and Gender-Based Violence Against Women was both timely and instructive considering the increasing effort by different stakeholders

Locating gender at the Internet Governance Forum 2015 For nine years, feminist activists struggled to bring gender issues out of the peripheries at the Internet Governance Forum (IGF). The 2015 IGF which took place in Joao Pessoa, Brazil, proved that

Finding her place: Gender at the 10th IGF A quiet sense of satisfaction. That’s what I felt at this year’s Internet Governance Forum, when gender moved out of the wings and came on to the main stage: here, there, everywhere.

Diversity, gender, women’s and sexual rights: : All videos from IGF 2015 in one place Flavia Fascendini put together the videos from all discussions at the IGF 2015 which concerned gender issues, women’s and sexual rights, bringing forward the Feminist

Diversity, gender, and rights: All videos from IGF 2015 in one place Flavia Fascendini put together the videos from all discussions at the IGF 2015 which concerned gender issues, women’s and sexual rights, bringing forward the Feminist Principles of the

IGF 2015: Diversity, gender, women’s and sexual rights We put together the videos of all those spaces at the IGF 2015 were we played a role in our advocacy for gender issues, women’s and sexual rights, bringing forward the Feminist

Trusting our net Shawna Finnegan and Emilar Vushe, who are the part of the Association for Progressive Communication’s policy programme, engage in a conversation about their highlights of this year’s Internet Governance Forum (IGF). They speak about the value of

Trusting our net: Reflecting on the 2015 Internet Governance Forum APC staff members Shawna Finnegan and Emilar Vushe interview each other to think through some of the highlights of this year’s Internet Governance Forum which took place in Brazil. Shawna