Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence: Insights from across the Indo-Pacific

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TOPIC: Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence: Insights from across the Indo-Pacific

Technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TFGBV) is a global concern causing significant physical, psychological, social, and economic harms. Increasingly, technologies and online spaces have become powerful tools for perpetrators, but also for creative responses to prevent, address and intervene in violent behaviours. With the aim to further understand the opportunities and challenges associated with TFGBV, the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence against Women (CEVAW) has brought together a panel of experts to reflect on lessons learnt in the digital and NGO sectors across the Indo-Pacific. The panel includes representatives from Meta, Black Rainbow, eSafety Australia, the University of South Pacific, DV Connect and UNFPA who will share their reflections on TFGBV, and what the future might bring in responding to TFGBV across the Indo-Pacific region.

In this webinar, you will:

• Learn about TFGBV and the harms associated
• Further understand the opportunities and challenges associated with TFGBV
• Gain insights from an expert panel on lessons learnt in the digital and NGO sectors across the Indo-Pacific, and what the future may bring in responding to TFGBV
• Be given the opportunity to engage with and ask questions of the panel
  
  

EVENT DETAILS

• DATE: Thursday 30th May 2024
• TIME: 10:30am (AEST) start, finishing at 12:00pm
• DURATION: 90 minutes (incl Q&A)
• LOCATION: Online - a link will be emailed to you with the viewing details

PANELLISTS

Andrew Farrell, Black Rainbow

Andrew Farrell is a lecturer in the Department of Critical Indigenous Studies, Macquarie University. Andrew is a Wodi Wodi descendant from Jerrinja Aboriginal community on the South Coast of NSW. Their research is multidisciplinary with a focus on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander LGBTIQ+SB gender and sexualities, media and online studies, and drag.

Beck O’Connor, DV Connect

Beck is the CEO for DVConnect, Qld’s state-wide domestic violence 24/7 crisis response service, sexual assault helpline and state-wide support for victims of crime. DVConnect also provides targeted services for people who use violence in their relationships. Beck is deeply passionate about ensuring the safety, choices and dignity of people impacted by violence and that their diverse life experiences are acknowledged and respected.

Beck is the Deputy Managing Director of the LGBTQ Domestic Violence Awareness Foundation and the Co-Chair of the Independent Ministerial Advisory Council (IMAC) which both seek to ensure victim-survivors’ are equal partners in driving criminal justice systems reform.

Kira Osborne, Australia's eSafety Commissioner

Kira Osborne is the Pacific Lead and oversees the growing international TFGBV workstream at Australia’s eSafety Commission (eSafety) with a focus on domestic and family violence as well as women in public spaces. As the world’s first online safety regulator, eSafety is working with local partners across the region to deliver its eSafety Pacific Program.  The program aims to strengthen institutional capabilities and strategic engagement with government, civil society, and the wider community to prevent, identify and respond to issues of online safety including technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TFGBV).

Soropepeli Ramacake, University of the South Pacific

Soro Ramacake is an indigenous Fijian with experience in adult tertiary teaching, community work/development, working with indigenous peoples, child welfare, youth justice, social work in school, counselling, mediation, clinical supervision, and practice support and development. Soro's academic interests are in social work, social policy and counselling. He has a passion for social ustice, challenging unfair and discriminatory practices and systems, empowering, advocating and building people. Soro loves to network, grow people's knowledge, help people shine in their practice, and to realise their full potential.

Alexandra Robinson, UNFPA

Alexandra is the Technical Advisor on gender-based violence for UNFPA based in Headquarters, New York. Prior to working with UNFPA, Alexandra worked with other UN agencies and Civil Society Organisations across north Africa and Asia in a range of humanitarian, peacebuilding and development contexts. She is a trained lawyer by background and has practiced across Australia and the UK in criminal, family and climate law. She possesses double degrees in Law and Social Sciences from the Queensland University of Technology and the University of Queensland and a Masters of Law (International Law) from the Australian National University.

Cindy Southworth, Meta

Cindy Southworth, Global Head of Women’s Safety at Meta, focuses on empowering women to connect online and combating issues such as non-consensual sharing of intimate images that disproportionately impact women. Prior to joining Meta, she was the Executive Vice President at the U.S. National Network to End Domestic Violence (nnedv.org) and founder of the Safety Net Technology Project (techsafety.org). She is a founding board member of the Global Network of Women’s Shelters (gnws.org) and a board member of the Kering Foundation (keringfoundation.org). She has a master’s degree in Social Work and worked to end violence against women for over 25 years at international, national, state, and local advocacy organizations before joining Meta.

MODERATOR 

This event will be moderated by CEVAW Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Freya McLachlan. Her research aims to help understand perpetrators of gendered violence from an intersectional lens using mixed methodologies.

ABOUT CEVAW

The Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (CEVAW) is the world's first Centre to address the full range of forms of violence against women in Australia and the Indo-Pacific region.

Headquartered at Monash University, the CEVAW network comprises 13 Chief Investigators from six Australian universities, and 45 Australian and international partner organisations.

With a $35M investment from the ARC (Australian Research Council), CEVAW is poised to make significant global impact by examining the structural drivers that cause and compound violence against women, and pioneering new, evidence-based approaches to radically improve policy and practice across Australia and the Indo-Pacific.

The Centre mobilises survivor-centric and Indigenous approaches, interdisciplinary collaborations, and Indo-Pacific partnerships to deliver scalable approaches to eliminate violence against women across the legal, security, economic, health, and political systems of Australia and the region.

This Centre is funded by the Australian Government through the Australian Research Council.