[governance] Internet use by LGBTQI activists and sexual and reproductive rights defenders

[Anriette Esterhuysen]

Dear all

APC.org is doing another round of our survey to understand more about
how LGBTQI activists and sexual and reproductive rights defenders use
the internet. Please could you pass this around or respond to the survey
if you are interested?

Much appreciated.

Anriette


The EROTICS global survey is back! If you are an LGBTQI activist or
sexual rights defender who uses the internet to further your cause, we
want to hear from you!

Your participation will help the Association for Progressive
Communications (APC) to make sense of the latest trends concerning the
opportunities and threats involved in expressing and organizing online.

The survey is now 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

What you can do to make this survey a success:

1. Take the survey.
2. Pass it on to individuals and organisations working on sexual rights
issues.
3. Promote the survey on your blog or organisation website
4. Circulate it on your social media networks using the hashtag
#eroticsurvey

We have another 7 days until the closing date of the survey and we
really appreciate your assistance to promote the survey to your contacts
and send them reminder.  Our preliminary findings shows the respondents
from  Africa, South Asia,and Middle East regions, as well as transgender
and intersex respondents, are less represented.

We will share the survey findings with you later in 2017. The first
EROTICS survey in 2013 and the second in 2014 have deepened our
understanding of the ways sexual rights activists use the internet to
advance their cause, and the challenges faced by the LGBTQI community in
expressing their sexuality online. The findings of the past surveys have
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.

Thank you in advance for your help!
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Anriette Esterhuysen
Director - global policy and strategy
Association for Progressive Communications
anriette at apc.org
www.apc.org
IM: ae_apc
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