As personal and public lives are increasingly played out on the internet and through social media, a new frontier in the fight against gender-based violence has emerged. Combatting TFGBV is an essential part of better-protecting women and girls online and empowering their safe and meaningful participation in all forms of public life.
The Centre for Information Resilience’s (CIR) research into TFGBV in Ethiopia signals that women and girls in Ethiopia suffer from several different types of TFGBV. These include hate speech, revenge pornography, and harassment. Many participants at CIR’s roundtables and workshops in Addis Ababa cited the lack of data as a key issue preventing TFGBV from being addressed. CIR’s research aims to help fill this gap.
