The Government Delegation in Galicia will organize a training day on gender violence in the digital field aimed at professionals in the field of equality and the protection of women and personnel of the Security Forces and Bodies.
The session, entitled “Visibility, prevention and sanction of digital gender violence”, will take place on the morning of April 25 in the Assembly Hall of the Faculty of Law of the University of Coruña. The registration is also open to students and legal professionals who want to expand legal knowledge about this particular way of exercising male violence.
The day is promoted and coordinated by the Coordination Unit against Violence against Women of the Government Delegation in collaboration with the Faculty of Law of the Universidade da Coruña and is integrated into the actions of the State Pact against Gender Violence.
During the session, the reality of digital gender violence will be addressed, as it is carried out, as we can detect it when it occurs and what regulations and legal tools exist to stop it and sanction its authors.
After the institutional inauguration, Ana Ala Catoira, professor of Constitutional Law and dean of the Faculty of Law of the University of A Coruña, will speak, addressing the different forms of digital violence and detailing the normative and judicial responses against them.
Then there will be a dialogue between José Julio Fernández Rodríguez, professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Santiago and Lorena Casal Otero, pedagogue and professor in Pedagogy at the University of Santiago. In this joint intervention they had talked about the persistence of discrimination through technological instruments of disinformation.
Digital gender violence
This day is based on the spread of new forms of gender violence that spread through technology, mainly through social networks and increased with Artificial Intelligence.
The new way of exercising gender violence is particularly affecting vulnerable groups such as adolescence, a clear example being various manifestations such as cyberbullying, sexting, stlaked, grooming, shaming and doxing. These phenomena are linked to the dissemination without the consent of the victim, of his personal data and image, threats, defamation, harassment, humiliation, attacks that affect the freedom of expression of women, even when they are minors.
The negative effects are potentially increased by the low perception of risks, in social groups very determined by the use of technologies, without being able to appreciate the violence exercised and, therefore, the violation of their most essential fundamental rights.
Attendance at the day is free but requires a prior registration that can be formulated until April 11 in the following form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/y/1FAIpQLSf5-DHSQX8hpZiNp-qVecFRGaH10cX-nUMYnVRE07mXgJpn8g/viewform?usp=pp_url