ICTs can be potentially used to foster wider political participation. Look here for inspiration and examples of how women around the world used ICTs to change their societies.
With more than two hundred thousand followers on Facebook and about 54 thousand followers on Twitter, I am one of the most prominent Yemeni politicians on the ground and online. Yet not a day passes without me having to fight in the virtual world...
Background
“The press was as kind as it knew how to be. It meant well and did all for us it knew how to do. We couldn't ask it to do more than it knew how.” [Laughter] — Susan B. Anthony, 1893
Susan B. Anthony was familiar with the press’ ways....
ES Bijimol, a three-time MLA of the Communist Party of India (CPI) has said she suffered moral attacks and degradation from her male colleagues for daring to contest in a male bastion.
The former legislator from Peermade in Kerala’s Idukki district...
The bitter truth is that gender injustice in politics is largely overlooked and has been normalised to the point where a woman preparing to start a career in politics should expect misogyny and sexism as by-products.
Recently, thirty-six-year-old...
An interview featuring Kate (Oxford) talking with Alyssa Humphrey from the Social Factory.
About Alyssa | Alyssa is a brand developer and digital media marketer located in Woodstock, Ontario with nine years of professional social media management,...
In Zimbabwe, a deeply conservative country, fewer women have participated as candidates in elections since independence in 1980, compared to men.
Harare, Zimbabwe – On March 16, Thokozile Dube was attacked by a gang of assailants who stormed her...
MUTARE, Zimbabwe (IDN) — Cyberbullying and online sexual harassment are some dilemmas that young women trying to rise in Zimbabwe’s patriarchal and male-dominated political space face.
What started as a debate on the opposition party, Citizens...
Women MPs like Esther Passaris face threats, slurs and body-shaming on social media ahead of Aug. 9 vote.
Online abuse included sexual imagery and public shaming
Some women candidates abandon social media due to abuse
Social media platforms,...
Inside a cramped cell at Zimbabwe’s infamous Chikurubi prison in January last year, a group of women took turns to speak.
Among them was Fadzayi Mahere, one of the country’s most prominent young opposition leaders.
Sitting on the cold, urine-stained...
Online abuse and harassment of women in public life has become a curse on our political landscape. For many, such abuse is simply the cost of doing politics, an unfortunate but largely inevitable factor women have to wrestle with when making the...
WARNING: PROFANE LANGUAGE
The fabricated sex videos posted online purportedly of Aika Robredo and Tricia Robredo, daughters of Vice President Leni Robredo, are among the recent cases of disinformation circulating in cyberspace that are framed in the...
Nicola Sturgeon has opened up about the challenges of being a woman in politics and warned social media abuse is starting to put women off.
Speaking at the Hay Festival in Hay-On-Wye, Wales, on Friday, the first minister shared some of the double...
Women politicians were challenged to use media effectively as they pursue political life fighting gender bias and stereotypes ahead of well publicised weekend by elections whose results have now been made public. Gender Media Connect (GMC) an...
There is still work to do across the political divide to address misogyny in politics, the prime minister says.
Although Jacinda Ardern acknowledged misogyny is not new, she said it had been "amplified" by social media.
Her comments on Breakfast...
A rising tide of “deeply sexist” abuse and threats against women MPs is part of a concerted effort to push them out of public office, an expert says.
Speaker of the House Trevor Mallard said abuse has ramped up in the past five years, with...
The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Women in Politics
Background
“COVID-19 is a crisis with a woman’s face… The damage is incalculable and will resound down the decades, into future generations. Now is the time to change course. Women’s equal participation is the game-changer we need.” Antonio...
At a special event hosted by Mr. Abdulla Shahid, President of the General Assembly, on the sidelines of the 66th Commission on the Status of Women, leaders came together to call for concrete actions and responses to end violence against women in...
The internet is a tool that can simplify and encourage democratic engagement, but the rise of online disinformation challenges even the world’s most robust democracies. While the most recognizable disinformation campaigns are related to national...
![In this picture taken on July 15, 2018, a woman dances during an opposition election rally in Masvingo, Zimbabwe. [Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi/AP Photo]](https://www.iknowpolitics.org/sites/default/files/styles/focus_area_news_image/public/zimbabwe_-_copie.jpg?itok=LfitMe5u "In this picture taken on July 15, 2018, a woman dances during an opposition election rally in Masvingo, Zimbabwe. [Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi/AP Photo]")
