Original artwork by Flavia Fascendini The non-territorial, transborder Internet has overlaid layers of complexity to the human rights debate. The idea of substantive equality – a compass for human rights and the key to gender justice – must be interpreted anew as the force of digital technologies complicates the temporal-spatial nature of social relations and institutions.
“The truths of women in the peripheries may not even be represented in the data. Given the lack of appropriate privacy and data protection laws in most countries of the South, we see a crisis of democratic accountability, a situation where women’s bodily integrity, agency and autonomy are under siege.”
Read on this full feminist talk in GenderIT.org .
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