Theme: Shaping the Worlds Digital Future.
About this Event
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.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Woodbine Banquet Hall, 30 Vice Regent Boulevard, Toronto, Canada
CAD 150.00 to CAD 350.00
