What is the line between private and public? Is it the home? The body? Is it about thoughts, relationships or spaces? What about the digital spaces that increasingly take up room in our lives?
What is the line between private and public? Is it the home? The body? Is it about thoughts, relationships or spaces? What about the digital spaces that increasingly take up room in our lives?
Meet Betty, a young woman from Morelos, Mexico. Her story speaks about the different connections and interactions that she encounters through online social networking – some of them expected and welcomed, some of them a little less straightforward. It’s also about how Betty exercises her judgment and discretion in dealing with them.
How do you exercise your judgment and right to privacy in online social networking spaces?
“The past summer I had gone on a cruise with a close friend. She and I met two brothers, who had taken an interest in us. After much dancing and drinking together, I began to feel sick. One of the brothers helped me back to my cabin, taking care of me as I became almost physically impaired. I eventually passed out.
Mobile phones have often been forwarded as an affordable solution to enabling internet access, especially for those from developing. According to recent research, there are currently 6 billion mobile subscribers worldwide, which is equivalent to 87% of the world’s population.
Today we share with you a folk story. Folklores and fairytales are the earliest form of education, embodying collective wisdom and memory of a community through each retelling. It is a form of living history that allows the audience and storyteller to reinterpret and critically reflect about meanings and power in this world, and our places in them.
The act of storytelling is transformative.
When you tell a story, you are defining the experience. You are naming the actors, narrating the event, framing the values and deciding which details matter. In other words, you are constructing reality.
When you listen to a story, you are allowing your point of view to be shifted, and be immersed into another reality. When you listen actively, you are also moved through more profound understanding.
Today is International Human Rights Day. Celebrate your rights! Make the connections. Claim your inclusion. Demand to be written in.
Today is International Human Rights Day. On 10 December, people from all over the world dedicate this one day to recognise, celebrate and reaffirm our shared values and ideals. They belong to each and every one of us, regardless of difference or diversity, by the simple fact that we are human beings.
Even as the internet opens up new spaces for public and political engagement for women and girls, their rights come under attack. Women's rights activists and feminists have had their websites hacked, faced hate-speech and targetted harassment. These are seldom monitored in internet rights spaces. Defend our right to communicate freely and safely online. Map it. Make it visible. And demand for change.
The UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression and Opinion centred the importance of the internet in enabling a broad range of human rights. We have seen this through the multiple, strategic and creative ways that feminist and human rights activists have mobilised for action through online spaces.
