On November 30th and December 1st, the Inter-American Commission of Women (CIM) and MESECVI, with the support of the Italian Republic, CICTE, UN Women, the Wilson Center, Equality Now, UNFPA, the Regional Alliance for Free Expression and Information, held a seminar at the OAS headquarters in Washington, DC, entitled Towards a Comprehensive Model Law to Prevent, Punish and Eradicate Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence against Women: Tools and proposals for regional regulation, aimed at gathering input for the drafting of a Comprehensive Model Law that would provide tools for regulating this type of violence.
For the organizations present, gender-based violence facilitated by technology has become one of the most complex human rights issues for women, given the lack of adequate legal tools to offer care, protection and redress to victims, as well as to prevent the multiple forms of violence that women face when they access the digital space.
The various speakers at this seminar pointed out that the experiences of women, adolescents and girls show that the violence they suffer in their digital interactions has a concrete impact on all spheres of their lives.
Leila Linhares Barsted, a member of MESECVI’s Committee of Experts, followed the seminar online.
