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Letters of Support

* Kenya Human Rights Commission
* Lahore
* Association of Progressive Communications, Women's Networking Support Programme

and: Learn more about the global anti-violence movement

Dear Nancy

I work for Kenya Human Rights Commission in Kenya. I have gone through this letter and noted it is in response to women attacks in Brooklyn and Manhattan.

We in Kenya would like to know how we could also counter this move as women and the girl child is undergoing the same attacks. Kindly let us have your advocacy tool especially during this day of Violence against Women 25th November, 2004.

Regards

Nancy Mwaura
Administrative Asst
Kenya Human Rights Commission

Dear Nancy,

Thank you very much for your e/mail. Please inform me how can I join your new Project, I am Waheed Ahmad Advocate high Court from Lahore and member of the Human Rights committee Lahore Bar Association.

Please inform me in detail how I will become a part of your project

Thanks, with best wishes

Waheed

ICT = Information Communication Technology

Dear Nancy,

I am currently with APC WNSP (I know, the acronyms are almost an occupational hazard! It stands for Association of Progressive Communications, Women's Networking Support Programme - you can find out more information about it following the link below). It is a global network of activists working on mainly on ICT policy issues, and with the WNSP, particularly from a gender perspective. Women's movements rarely focus on ICT policies in their work, apart from perhaps development and poverty alleviation, and this is quite a new issue. As mentioned, I have worked mainly in VAW, but I have been also interested in the political dimensions of ICTs as well. Maybe being a gadget geek does it J , Currently I am based in London, although I will be returning to my home in Malaysia in January next year. Most of the work that I do is based in the Asia Pacific. [Women's Aid Organisation (WAO) is a grassroots organisation based in Malaysia that provides direct services (shelter, counselling) to survivors of domestic violence, rape, sexual assualt as well as employer abuse of foreign domestic workers. I write for them on a freelance basis as well as maintain their website. The other organisation I am affiliated to is KRYSS (another acronym, sorry! Knowledge and Rights with Young People through Safer Spaces). It is a fairly new regional organisation based in the Philippines that works with young people through creative communications on their rights from a gender perspective.]

It is great that you are also interested in exploring the possibilities of ICTs in women's rights issues, particularly in related to VAW. Perhaps we can engage in discussions over email on this? At the moment I am trying to cull up a lot of reading materials to think about this matter deeper. I know of several projects which uses ICTs strategically to address VAW, like the nyc-rapemap.org that you are working on. I find that to be a very positive and transformative engagement with technologies. This is especially since much of the usage in technologies is profit-driven, and some (most?) are harmful to women. The more women that have control over content and development of the technology the better! Particularly since much of the development is driven by agendas of multi-national corporations. I am also interested however, to unravel the connections between the faciliation/perpetuation of VAW and the role of ICTs. Since ICTs play a large role in cultural dissemination, what part does it play in reinforcing sexism and unequal power relations? Given that primarily, countries in the global, economic 'North' controls ICTs and their development (as can be seen from the recent World Summit on Information Society), how does that relate to issues regarding globalisation, migration, trafficking of women, displacement and so on? It would be great to hear your thoughts about these questions. Sometimes a gendered perspective is hard when the subject is fairly new and resources are rare.

Thanks very much again for engaging with me on this! I appreciate your time and thoughts.

Warmest,

Jaclyn Kee

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