[bestbits] EROTICS Global Survey on sexual rights and the internet

[Valeria Betancourt]

Dear all,

The Association for Progressive Communications Women’s Rights Programme
(APC WRP) launched the third EROTICS Global Survey on 17 July 2017. The
survey aims to collect data and map trends concerning both threats to
and enhancement of sexual expression online, and how this impacts on the
rights of target communities. If you are a heterosexual, lesbian, gay,
bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, a sexual rights activist,
community leader, movement builder, independent blogger, network
builder, internet user – we want to know what you think!

In 2013, APC conducted the first Global Monitoring Survey on Content
Regulation and Sexuality and found that 98% of sexual rights activists
cited the internet as crucial to their work. The findings of this survey
have provided evidence to support the policy advocacy work of APC and
the EROTICS network, a global network of more than 50 activists,
academics and organisations working on sexuality issues including LGBTQI
rights, sex work, sex education, SRHR rights and gender-based violence,
as well as internet freedom advocates. This policy advocacy work has
resulted in, among others, the inclusion of sexual orientation and
gender identity in the UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of opinion and
expression’s May 2015 report on encryption, anonymity and the human
rights framework in digital communications. The findings also informed
the UN’s first ever resolution on women human rights defenders in
November 2013, with a paragraph on online violence against sexual rights
activists.

APC will issue a report on the third Global Monitoring Survey later in
2017. For now, mark the date 17 July on your calendars and get ready to
participate in the third EROTICS survey!

The survey is available in five languages:

English: https://tinyurl.com/eroticsENG
Simplified Chinese: https://tinyurl.com/eroticsCHN
Traditional Chinese: https://tinyurl.com/eroticsCHNTW
Spanish: https://tinyurl.com/eroticsES
French:    https://tinyurl.com/eroticsFR
Arabic:    https://tinyurl.com/eroticsAR

We thank you in advance for helping us to distribute the survey within
your respective networks.

Best regards,

Valeria 


-- 
Valeria Betancourt
Directora / Manager
Programa de Políticas de Information y Comunicación / Communication and
Information Policy Programme
Asociación para el Progreso de las Comunicaciones / Association for
Progressive Communications, APC
http://www.apc.org