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A WACC-supported protect in Costa Rica is helping women Indigenous leaders of the Cabécar nation use digital technologies strategically to connect younger generations with their community's culture, knowledge, and language.“Cabécar young people influenced by Western culture are becoming disconnected from ancestral wisdom,” says Kemly Camacho,...

A dynamic cohort of young church leaders have committed to tackling tech-facilitated gender-based violence following a digital gender-justice workshop led by staff from WACC and the World Council of Churches on December 11–14 at the Ecumenical Institute of Bossey (Switzerland). Technology-facilitated gender-based violence, or TFGBV, is...

A workshop being held 11–14 December is engaging young church leaders in preventing gender inequities and advocating for gender justice in social media and other online spaces. Together, participants in the event “Taking Action Against Online Sexual and Gender-Based Violence” will review community standards on social...

Gender-based violence on and through digital communication technologies is arguably the most pervasive human rights violation on the Internet. It is clear that technology — once considered an agent for gender equality — has become a serious threat to women’s rights. Sexual harassment. Rape threats. Objectification....

Gender integration — through inclusive policies and practical initiatives — is urgently needed in digital spaces, panelists concluded during a session on digitalization and intersectionality at the WACC partner consultation “Communication Rights: Towards a Digital Justice Agenda” in Nairobi, Kenya, in early August. Gender inclusion has...