The Laboratory for Women’s Rights Online [fr]
Launched on International Women’s Day on 8 March 2024, the Laboratory for Women’s Rights Online is a platform for dialogue and an incubator for projects. It aims to fight online and tech-facilitated gender-based violence.
The Laboratory for Women’s Rights Online is both:
- An international platform for collaboration and dialogue on gender and digital issues, and especially online and tech-facilitated gender-based violence;
- An incubator for tangible projects to identify, prevent and curb online and tech-facilitated gender-based violence.
The projects chosen in the annual call for projects will receive support from the Laboratory’s members and financial aid from the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, which ensures the Laboratory’s Secretariat.
This multi-party initiative, announced at the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly, brings together many stakeholders: States, international organizations, regulatory authorities, civil society organizations, private platforms, private companies, activists, researchers and experts specialized in gender and digital issues.
Defending women’s and girls’ rights in a digital environment is a priority of France’s feminist diplomacy
The Laboratory for Women’s Rights Online is the first forum for multi-stakeholder dialogue on online and tech-facilitated gender-based violence. It is fully in line with the two-pronged priority of French diplomacy focusing on regulating the digital environment and promoting women’s and girls’ rights and gender equality.
The Laboratory for Women’s Rights Online is working in four priority areas:
- Gender-based violence (non-consensual dissemination of intimate content and online violence campaigns targeting women working in the public sector);
- Risks related to emerging technologies, to algorithms and content moderation (artificial intelligence, biased algorithms and moderation);
- Prevention and education relating to digital technology (promotion of gender equality online and inclusion of young women in digital technology jobs and environments);
- Research on online men’s networks and movements.
The Laboratory for Women’s Rights Online is launching a call for projects.
Organizations working on online and tech-facilitated gender-based violence can submit their projects before 23 September 2024.
Find out about the themes chosen and terms and conditions to apply