[governance] GISWatch 2015 – Sexual rights and the internet: Launching on 12 November!

[Ariel Barbosa]

12 November 2015, 12:30 till 13:15
Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in João Pessoa, Brazil, in workshop room 3.

About this issue:
How does the politics of sex and sexual rights activism take place
online? How are generally accepted sexual identities, as well as
marginalised sexualities, expressed, regulated and moralised on the
internet? And how does this relate to the threats of surveillance,
censorship and online violence? These are some of the questions that
this year's edition of the "Global Information Society Watch report
(GISWatch 2015, available at
http://www.giswatch.org/2015-sexual-rights-and-internet) aims to respond
to. With sexual rights and the internet as the main theme, the issues
addressed by the country reports range from the challenges and
possibilities that the internet offers lesbian, gay, bisexual,
transgender and intersex (LBGTI) communities to the active role of
religious, cultural and patriarchal establishments in suppressing sexual
rights, including same-sex marriage, to the rights of sex workers,
violence against women online, and sex education in schools.

What is GISWatch? GISWatch is collaborative community committed to
building an open, inclusive and sustainable information society. The
GISWatch reports are a series of yearly reports covering the state of
the information society from the perspectives of civil society, but
GISWatch is not only a publication, it is a process. The long-term goal
of the project is to build policy analysis skills and "habits" into the
work of civil society organisations that work in the areas of ICT for
development, democracy and social justice.

Why a Sexual rights and the internet edition? The timing of this
publication is critical: many across the globe are denied their sexual
rights, some facing direct persecution for their sexuality (in several
countries, homosexuality is a crime). While these reports seem to
indicate that the internet does help in the expression and defence of
sexual rights, they also show that in some contexts this potential is
under threat – whether through the active use of the internet by
conservative and reactionary groups, or through threats of harassment
and violence. The reports suggest that a radical revisiting of policy,
legislation and practice is needed in many contexts to ensure that the
possibilities of the internet for guaranteeing sexual rights are
realised all over the world. The eight thematic reports introduce the
theme from different perspectives, including the global policy landscape
for sexual rights and the internet, the privatisation of spaces for free
expression and engagement, the need to create a feminist internet, how
to think about children and their vulnerabilities online, and consent
and pornography online. These thematic reports frame the 57 country
reports that follow. Each country report includes a list of action steps
for future advocacy.

Evolving in line with the challenges and tensions of internet rights The
increased attention to and impact of the GISWatch publications is a
milestone in a process that started in 2007, when we published our first
report focusing on Participation. After that, we published reports
addressing the themes of Access to Infrastructure:, "Access to Online
Information and Knowledge", "ICTs and Environmental Sustainability":,
"Internet Rights and Democratisation", "The Internet and Corruption":,
"Communications Rights Ten Years after WSIS":, "Women's Rights, Gender
and ICTs":, and "Internet rights that went wrong in Turkey". Las year's
report was on surveillance.

Can it be followed remotely? You can follow it through the #IGF2015 and
#GISWatch2015 hashtags. After the launch, we will "unlock" the report
and you will be able to download it from "here"

Meanwhile, follow @APC_News and #GISWatch2015 for teasers and insights
on the process, and stay tuned!


Colnodo - Uso estratégico de Internet para el desarrollo
*Ariel Barbosa*

Director de Proyectos de Tecnología

Tel: 57-1 232 4246 ext. 4301 | 57-315 258 5596

Diagonal 40A (Antigua Av. 39) No. 14-75 Bogotá, Colombia

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