The state of evidence and data collection on technology-facilitated violence against women UN Women and World Health Organization
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BookSeries: Brief.Publisher: UN Women, 2023Description: electronic document (7 pages) ; PDF file.Subject(s): IMAGE-BASED SEXUAL ABUSE | DATA COLLECTION | DOMESTIC VIOLENCE | INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE | PREVALENCE | SEXUAL HARASSMENT | SEXUAL VIOLENCE | SOCIAL MEDIA | STALKING | TECHNOLOGY-FACILITATED ABUSE | VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN | VICTIMS OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE | INTERNATIONALOnline resources: Download the report, PDF | Access the website | Download full paper, PDF
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Brief, March 2023Summary: This brief paper summarizes the scoping review and key recommendations on the approaches to collecting data on TF VAW, the current state of evidence and data and the challenges presented in the paper “Technology-facilitated Violence Against Women: Taking Stock of evidence and data collection” (#8152) developed by Ladysmith as part of the UN Women-WHO Joint Programme on Violence Against Women Data.
Understanding how data is generated is key for understanding the drivers of data gaps, and thus informing targeted investments
to strengthen a more action-oriented, global evidence base on TF VAW (From the document). Record #8278
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Brief, March 2023
This brief paper summarizes the scoping review and key recommendations on the approaches to collecting data on TF VAW, the current state of evidence and data and the challenges presented in the paper “Technology-facilitated Violence Against Women: Taking Stock of evidence and data collection” (#8152) developed by Ladysmith as part of the UN Women-WHO Joint Programme on Violence Against Women Data.
Understanding how data is generated is key for understanding the drivers of data gaps, and thus informing targeted investments
to strengthen a more action-oriented, global evidence base on TF VAW (From the document). Record #8278
The digital revolution and the uptake of online information and communications technologies have both positive and negative gendered impacts. On the one hand, online spaces and digital tools can facilitate access to essential information and services, unleashing educational and employment opportunities for women and girls. But on the other hand, for those who are online and do have access, a growing body of evidence sheds light on the ways in which the digital revolution has exacerbated existing, and even created new, forms of gendered inequalities and oppression, including technology-facilitated violence against women.
Despite a growing evidence base and accelerated efforts to develop fit-for-purpose quantitative and qualitative research and data collection methods, significant gaps remain in our understanding of the scale and particular manifestations of technology-facilitated violence against women, including how women who face intersecting forms of discrimination experience or resist it.
Based on a scoping study, this paper offers a landscape scan highlighting what is known about technology-facilitated violence against women, who is currently generating this knowledge, and how the evidence is being produced. The paper also highlights some of the related methodological, ethical, and sociopolitical challenges to collecting data on technology-facilitated violence against women. As a way forward, actions for strengthening knowledge generation and data collection are proposed, including recommendations on methods and further research. (From the website). Record #8152
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