violence

The UN declared 2025 the Year to End Digital Violence, calling for global action against cyberstalking, deepfakes, and online harassment.

AI is used to create fake explicit videos of women and spreading them online. Creators of such explicit content disproportionately target women.

Biased social media and AI algorithms amplify and promote misogyny and misogynistic content, spreading harmful content and radicalising attitudes.

Girls are targeted with ads for age-inappropriate products, and can also encounter online material promoting self-harm, suicide, or violent extremism.

Technology platforms have been weaponised for trafficking, coercion, abuse including sexual exploitation, and smuggling operations.

Violent extremist organisations and criminal networks (e.g. smugglers) target children through online games or forums.

The distribution of Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) images and videos online, or live streams showing children being sexually abused or exploited are illegal.

Sending unwanted sexual content and unsolicited sexual images, explicit messages, unwanted sexual solicitation or requests via messaging apps or social media constitutes digital violence.

Publishing private data such as a home address or phone number online (i.e., doxxing) exposes women to threats, harassment, stalking, and physical danger.

Persistently monitoring a woman’s online activity and repeatedly contacting her without consent is cyberstalking. Cyberstalking is not harmless just because it happens online.