Special Focus – The potential of social media in empowering women and girls
In our latest online discussion, we discussed some of the effective strategies in using social media to help advance women’s rights. In the lead up to our event on taking place on 17 March in New York, we are organising a live Twitter Q&A on the same topic on 12 March (follow #WomenSpeak). This Special Focus therefore gathers news articles and blogs on social media as a tool to organise campaigns for change, in particular linked to gender equality.[Special_Focus#Special_Focus_-_current|Read more].
Special focus in the news
- Salma Hayek praises social media’s ‘peaceful revolution’ for women (The Guardian 23.03.2015)
- Iranian Social Media’s Short Attention Span for #AcidAttacks Against Women (Global Voices 20.03.2015)
- Women’s rights activists use social media to get their message out (The Guardian 19.03.2015)
- China’s upper middle class women are driving ecommerce and social media in China (Business Insider UK 16.03.2015)
- ‘Not There’ Campaign Removes Women From Ads for International Women’s Day (NY Times 08.03.2015)
- Int’l Women’s Day: Gender equality through social media? (Northern Life 06.03.2015)
- #LeanInTogether Wants Men To Support Women In The Fight For Gender Equality (Huffington Post 05.03.2015)
- The #HeForShe Campaign is Using Social Media to Fight for Gender Equality (U.S. Chamber Foundation 25.02.2015)
- Will #OzgecanAslan change Turkey? How a murder and a viral hashtag are giving voice to Turkish women (AlJazera 16.02.2015)
- Turkish women launch Twitter campaign against sexual violence (Mashable 16.02.2015)
- Turkish women relate sexual harassment stories via social media (hurriyetdailynews 16.02.2015)
- 23 Inspiring Feminist Digital Campaigns That Changed te World (Identities.mic 07.02.2015)
- Sharing stories of sexism on social media in 21st century activism (The Guardian 06.02.2015)