Tips for Women Online Activists

Tips for Women Online Activists

“To build your movement: grow awareness, increase knowledge and co-create tools” As winners of the second Womanity Award with Association for Progressive Communications (APC), Mexican based Luchadoras and Sandía Digital are coordinating a new entity called Siemprevivas [“Always Alive”], the new name for the localization of the Take Back The Tech! campaign in Mexico. Siemprevivas […]

FILM: Women Take Back The Tech in Mexico

Women Take Back The Tech in Mexico

“There is a big empty space in which women have no access to technologies, just because they are women.” The Take Back The Tech! campaign recently celebrated 10 years of existence. That global campaign invites people to use technologies to combat online violence against women and for women to claim their participation in the development […]

Combatting Online Violence Against Women – Webinar

Combatting Online Violence Against Women - Webinar

As part of a joint campaign with Wikigender organised for the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence (2016), Womanity co-hosted an online discussion on ”Combatting online violence against women and girls”. The online discussion concluded with a lively and informative webinar, which you can enjoy below, about the topic. Guests speakers: Sara Baker from APC (Take Back the […]

Take Back The Tech: 10 years of action on tech and gender violence

10 years of action on tech and gender

Take Back the Tech! Taking control of technology to end gender-based violence by Womanity Award winners APC’s Take Back the Tech team. Take Back the Tech! started as the seed of an idea in 2006, recognising the need to reclaim women’s historical contribution to technology development and to counter the growing expression of gender-based violence […]

Love, Acceptance, and Support on the Path to Gender Equality in Lebanon

Love, Acceptance, and Support on the Path to Gender Equality in Lebanon

Estephan “Tino” Bechara is a young man working with the Red Cross in Lebanon as a Youth and Health Trainer. He participated in the first validation workshop of Programme Ra with other young men. In July 2016, Lebanese NGO ABAAD–Resource Center for Gender Equality and Promundo launched Programme Ra in Beirut with support from the Womanity Foundation’s first-ever Womanity Award. The program, […]

Helping Lebanese Men and Boys Break Out of the “Box”

Helping Lebanese Men and Boys Break Out of the “Box”

How to address the causes of domestic violence in Lebanon In July 2016, Lebanese NGO ABAAD–Resource Center for Gender Equality and Promundo launched Programme Ra in Beirut with support from the Womanity Foundation’s first-ever Womanity Award. Hussein Safwan provides psychosocial support services as part of ABAAD’s Women and Girls Safe Spaces (WGSS) Program in Choueifat, Lebanon. In the following interview, Hussein speaks […]

ICTFORWOMANITY Network | August Update

ICTFORWOMANITY Network

Helping Women Empower Themselves INTERVIEW | Hera Hussain: Helping Women Empower Themselves Hera Hussain founder of Chayn, speaks to Womanity about her award-winning, open-source project that leverages technology to empower women against violence and oppression so they can live happier and healthier lives.Running solely on the passion of more than 300 skilled volunteers from 13 […]

Hera Hussain – Chayn – Tech to Empower Women Against Violence and Oppression

Hera Hussain

Chayn Empower Women Against Violence and Oppression. We are talking this week to Hera Hussain, founder of Chayn.co, a global platform that empowers women against violence and oppression. Chayn means “Solace”, “Peace” in Urdu. Chayn is also an award-winning, open-source project that leverages technology to empower women against violence and oppression so they can live […]

Can an app tackle domestic violence in Somalia?

Can an app tackle domestic violence in Somalia?

by Claudia Cahalane. A Somalian NGO is hoping technology will help women be safer in their homes, where domestic violence is often accepted as the norm Dahrio, a mother of three, lives in a camp for internally displaced people in Mogadishu, Somalia. Her community has always seen her as a strong, happy woman. But for […]

A life after gender violence: how you can "stand tall"

A life after gender violence: how you can "stand tall"

As part of our ICTforWomanity interviews, we talked to Esther Marshall, founder of sTandTall, an initiative that helps women and girls who have been abused or bullied get back on their feet. When Esther Marshall was younger, she thought she had found someone who loved her. “Sometimes he did seem to love me. But at […]