“Online harassment is not part of the job,” said IFJ Executive committee and Canadian union UNIFOR member Jennifer Moreau as she concluded her training for the International Federation of Journalists’ webinar on Fighting gender-based online abuse on 24 November.
Abusive online posts increased significantly against politically active Afghan women. Online abusive posts against politically active Afghan women have increased to 217% since August 2021, according to an Associated Press report.
Online abuse and hate speech targeting politically active women in Afghanistan has significantly increased since the Taliban took over the country in Aug. 2021, according to a report released Monday by a U.K.-based rights group. Afghan Witness, an open-source project run by the non-profit Center for Information Resilience, says it found that abusive posts tripled, a 217% increase, between June-December 2021 and the same period of 2022. Building on expertise gained from similar research in Myanmar, the Afghan Witness team analyzed publicly available information from X, formerly known as Twitter, and conducted in-depth interviews with six Afghan women to investigate the nature of the online abuse since the Taliban takeover.
The US joined Australia to fight child sexual exploitation due to increasing abuse online. The US agreed to join Australia to take a step forward in fighting child sexual exploitation amid increasing online abuse cases on November 19.
Between November 2022 and October 2023, over 50,000 men – Armymen to doctors, CAs to teenagers – from across India dialed the country's only helpline for men in crisis and seeking refuge.