[Bp_counteringabuse] BPF Progress Update 7: Countering the Online Abuse of Women

[Anri VAN DER SPUY]

Dear all 

Eighth meeting: report

We had our 8th meeting this week, during which we continued to populate 
the draft outline of work; focusing on solutions and responses to counter 
online VAW (section 2). If you missed the meeting, you can listen to the 
recording or read the attached meeting summary for more information. 

Survey feedback

Thank you to all who contributed and shared details about our survey. We 
received 57 substantive responses from diverse stakeholder groups and 
regions, including a significant number of responses from developing 
countries (25% of the responses were from Africa, 23% from Europe, 12% 
Middle East, 17% Asia, 10% North America, and 13% Central & South 
America). A large number of different countries are also represented in 
the responses (e.g. for Africa, we had respondents who reside in South 
Africa, Ghana, Nigeria, Tunisia, Zambia, Kenya, Cameroon and Uganda). 

We will provide you with a more detailed summary of the results as soon as 

we have finished compiling and interpreting the results. 

What solutions, responses and strategies to counter online VAW do you know 

of? 

Over the next three weeks we will continue to map and analyse the variety 
of policies, approaches, initiatives and/or strategies that exist to 
counter online VAW. The topic, contained in section 2 of the draft outline 

Google doc, is divided into different stakeholder groups? responses, 
namely: 

government and public sector;
private sector;
multistakeholder initiatives (public-private, corporation and civil 
society groups, etc.); and
community/ user-led initiatives.

We are particularly interested to learn not only about these approaches, 
but also why they were adopted and how effective they have proven to be in 

countering and/or preventing online VAW.

We encourage you to continue adding your comments and/or thoughts 
regarding these sections directly on the Google doc, or to respond to this 

email with your feedback and suggestions. 

Reminders

Our next meeting will take place on 24, 26 or 27 August. If you would like 

to have a say on timing of the meeting, please indicate your preference 
using this poll. The poll will be closed on Tuesday 18 August 2015 at 
17:00 GMT and, as usual, meeting details will be sent to this mailing list 

and published on the BPF's website platform thereafter. 

Thank you to all the volunteers who have already submitted case studies. 
We would like to encourage those who have not had the chance to do so, to 
submit these within the next week so that we can incorporate them into our 

draft report for the September 2-4 Open Consultations and MAG meeting in 
Paris. 

Kind regards,
Anri
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