
The Laboratory for Women’s Rights Online
Launched on International Women’s Day on 8 March 2024, the Laboratory for Women’s Rights Online is a platform for dialogue and an incubator for projects which aims to fight against online and technology-facilitated gender-based violence.
The Laboratory for Women’s Rights Online is both:
- An international platform for collaboration and dialogue on gender and digital issues, and especially online and technology-facilitated gender-based violence;
- An incubator for tangible projects to identify, prevent and curb online and technology-facilitated gender-based violence.
The projects chosen in the annual call for projects will receive support from the Laboratory’s members and funding from the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, which ensures the Laboratory’s Secretariat.
This multi-party initiative, announced at the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly, brings together many stakeholders: States, international organizations, regulatory authorities, civil society organizations, private platforms, private companies, activists, researchers and experts specialized in gender in the digital realm.
#FeministDiplomacy | The @francediplo_en Laboratory for Women’s Rights Online has launched a call for projects!
Find out the chosen themes and terms and conditions to apply 🔗 https://t.co/95uH0HTz2EFor more information about the Laboratory ➡️ https://t.co/d48irBxskZ pic.twitter.com/8ijeZOpcyo
— France Diplomacy 🇫🇷🇪🇺 (@francediplo_EN) July 29, 2024
Defending women’s and girls’ rights in the digital environment is a priority of France’s feminist diplomacy
The Laboratory for Women’s Rights Online is the first forum for multi-stakeholder dialogue on online and technology-facilitated gender-based violence. It is fully in line with the two-pronged priority of French diplomacy: regulating the digital environment and promoting women’s and girls’ rights and gender equality.
The Laboratory for Women’s Rights Online is working in four priority areas:
- Online and technology-facilitated gender-based violence (non-consensual dissemination of intimate content and online violence campaigns targeting women engaged in public activities);
- Risks related to emerging technologies, to algorithms and content moderation (artificial intelligence, biased algorithms and moderation);
- Prevention and education relating to the digital technology (promotion of gender equality online and inclusion of girls in digital technology jobs and environments);
- Research on online masculinist networks and movements.
And my presentation of the "Laboratory for Women's Rights Online" 💻♀️ @francediplo_EN
➡️ a multi-stakeholder plateform
➡️ an incubator for #tech solutions to identify, prevent&eradicate #online #GBV
Launched by 🇨🇵, to be joined by many! @HenriVerdier @colomna @AClaireLegendre pic.twitter.com/hysjAuo9Fu— Delphine O (@odelphine) November 12, 2023
The Laboratory for Women’s Rights Online is launching a call for projects
Organizations working on online and technology-facilitated gender-based violence can submit their projects before 23 September 2024.
Update: July 2024