Decoding technology-facilitated gender-based violence: a reality check from seven countries

Decoding technology-facilitated gender-based violence: a reality check from seven countries

The Generation G partnership studied technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TFGBV) in seven countries: Indonesia, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Rwanda, South Africa, and Uganda. We looked at the nature of TFGBV and its impacts – revealing how local contexts, culture, and legislation affect how violence is meted out and experienced, and how people access accountability and justice, or avoid or are prevented from doing so.

Across different locations, we found there is a critical lack of knowledge and understanding about TFGBV, a spill over between online and offline violence, a disproportionate impact on vulnerable groups, and a tendency for patriarchy and social ideas of morality and gender roles to magnify TFGBV. The study pinpoints efforts to prevent and mitigate TFGBV, and offers recommendations for how nations, organisations and communities can take action.