The lack of a common definition for technology-facilitated violence against women and girls makes it challenging to collect comparable global data. However, country and regional studies reveal alarmingly high rates of online harassment and abuse:
One in 10 women in the European Union report having experienced cyber-harassment since the age of 15. This included having received unwanted and/or offensive sexually explicit emails or SMS messages, or offensive and/or inappropriate advances on social networking sites.
In the Arab States, a regional study found that 6 per cent of women internet users in the region had been exposed to online violence in the past year.
In the Western Balkans and Eastern Europe countries, more than half of women present online in the region have experienced some form of technology-facilitated violence in their lifetime.
In Uganda, in 2021, about half of women (49%) reported to have ever been involved in online harassment.
According to a 2016 survey by the Korean National Human Rights Commission, 85 per cent of women experienced hate speech online.
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Technology-facilitated violence against women and girls