ANNEX 1 – KVINFO’S STRATEGY ON TFGBV
ADVANCING EQUALITY IN PUBLIC AND POLITICAL INTERACTIONS
BY PREVENTING AND RESPONDING TO TECHNOLOGYFACILITATED GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE
VISION
Everyone, including human rights defenders, activists, journalists, politicians, researchers
irrespective of gender, age, sexuality, ethnicity and other intersecting factors are able to express
their views, influence politics and public debate in online and offline spaces, without risk of
TFGBV.
MISSION
In the countries where KVINFO works, we seek to reduce the risk and consequences of
TFGBV at structural, individual and norm-critical levels:
KVINFO builds knowledge on TFGBV and its consequences for equality in public and
political interactions, and for improved practices in prevention and response
KVINFO supports civil society organisations and through them relevant duty bearers to
improve
o prevention and response to TFGBV enabling the protection and support to
victims/survivors
o legal frameworks and institutional responses through advocacy and awareness
efforts, fostering legal protection and resilience among users in cyberspace,
especially youth
AIM OF THIS STRATEGY
TFGBV is prevented and responded to among youth, women and other groups in higher risk,
such as women human rights defenders, women politicians, feminist activists and journalists,
thereby enhancing gender just political representation and interaction in civil society, in
representative fora and public debate.
DEFINITION OF TFGBV
KVINFO applies this definition of TFGBV:
“Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence, or TFGBV, is an act of violence perpetrated
by one or more individuals that is committed, assisted, aggravated and amplified in part or fully
by the use of information and communication technology (ICT) or digital media, against a
person on the basis of their gender.”29
KVINFO applies this definition in order to emphasize how digital gender-based violence
results, or is likely to result, in physical, sexual, psychological, social, political, and/or
economic harm, or other infringements of rights and freedoms, leading to withdrawal from
public and political participation, thus causing a democratic deficit.
Coined by UNFPA, see (https://www.unfpa.org/TFGBV), see also UN Women for TF-VAW,
“Technology-facilitated
violence
against
women”
(https://www.unwomen.org/en/digitallibrary/publications/2023/03/expert-group-meeting-report-technology-facilitated-violence-againstwomen)
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