Cyberspace and women’s human rights in the international legal orderTransnational risks and gender-based violence
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Universidad de Murcia
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ISSN: 1989-4570
Year of publication: 2024
Volume: 16
Issue: 1
Pages: 192-207
Type: Article
More publications in: Cuadernos de derecho transnacional
Abstract
Cyberspace has exacerbated certain transnational risks, such as cyber-discrimination, harassment, and aggression, particularly affecting women and girls on the basis of gender. Gender-based violence as a form of gender discrimination, including in its new forms, harms women and girls disproportionately, especially in their rights to equality, freedom from violence and freedom of expression. This article explores the contributions offered by different sources of law, in particular international human rights law, to address these gender-based risks and to prevent, eradicate and redress discrimination and gendered cyber-violations. It also analyses the opportunities that both the technological advancement concerning cyberspace, and the normative and interpretative standards developed to this effect, present for the construction of gender equality for women and girls worldwide.
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Funders
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Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
- PID 2020 112577 RB-I00