RightsCon Toronto 2018

Rising populism and authoritarianism in different parts of the world have resulted in diminished democratic spaces both offline and online and increased surveillance and gender-based violence among women and gender and sexual minorities. This workshop will focus on digital surveillance and gender-based violence (GBV) and aims to surface the experiences of GBV and online surveillance in the Philippines, Malaysia, India, Egypt, and Canada. The workshop will last from 1.5 to 2 hours and will begin with a trigger presentation from each country representative focusing on a particular thematic issues in relation to GBV and online surveillance including: policy, tools and technology, advocacy and campaign, research, and capacity building.

After the trigger presentations, the participants are expected to divide into small groups based on the above-mentioned themes and develop possible strategies to address GBV and online surveillance in their own countries or contexts. The small-groups will be facilitated by those who provided the trigger presentations. The workshop will end with a report-back to the larger group.