The Laboratory for Women’s Rights Online

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.

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.

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.