ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTERNET HARASSMENT AND BULLYING 2024

In an ideal world, communications between or among any class of persons should be

mutual and respectful. However, we do not live in an ideal world anywhere.

In recent years, owing to growing access to internet-able devices such as smart

phones and tablets, internet usage among children and adults, there is a growing

trend of vices such as cyber bullying, cyber stalking, cyber sexual harassment,

blackmail, hate speech, which have resulted in many unprecedented challenges for

the victims who are majority Women and Girls making it a growing threat for them.

We can’t ignore hate and cyberviolence.

Reducing online hate is essential to ending gender-based violence overall. Exposure

to hateful attitudes that promote an inferior social, political, and economic position

for women influence violence against women. It escalates the risk that consumers of

such content will adopt similar attitudes and act towards them.

Hatred towards women increases physical acts of violence against women, just as

inciting racial hate leads to an increase in racially motivated violence. The

intersection of these factors makes it especially dangerous for Indigenous women,

Black women, women of color, and identifiably Muslim women or women presumed

to be Muslim.

Host or Publisher The Amara Girls Initiative (TAGI)