Publication
A Novel Approach to the 11 UN Norms for Responsible State Behaviour in Cyberspace: Guidelines for Gendered Implementation
Authors
Year
- 2025
Description
- Cybersecurity has important implications for gender equality. Cybersecurity incidents affect people …
A Novel Approach to the 11 UN Norms for Responsible State Behaviour in Cyberspace: Guidelines for Gendered Implementation
Cybersecurity has important implications for gender equality. Cybersecurity incidents affect people of different genders differently. Moreover, inattention to gender makes cybersecurity less effective. It introduces unnoticed vulnerabilities into technical systems and policy responses to cyber threats. The underrepresentation of women and people of diverse gender identities, expressions and sexualities within […]
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Cybersecurity Threats, Vulnerabilities and Resilience Among Women Human Rights Defenders and Civil Society in South-East Asia
Authors
Year
- 2024
Description
- Authored by Jaimee Stuart with contributions from Cara Antonaccio and Min Yang, and published by UN …
Cybersecurity Threats, Vulnerabilities and Resilience Among Women Human Rights Defenders and Civil Society in South-East Asia
Authored by Jaimee Stuart with contributions from Cara Antonaccio and Min Yang, and published by UN Women and the UN University Institute in Macau (UNU), the 2032 report “Cybersecurity Threats, Vulnerabilities, and Resilience Among Women Human Rights Defenders and Civil Society in South-East Asia“ takes a gendered, human-centered approach to […]
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Final Report: Women’s Participation in Southeast Asia’s Cybersecurity Sector
Authors
Year
- 2024
Description
- This report compiles research findings from the “Women’s Participation in Southeast Asia…
Final Report: Women’s Participation in Southeast Asia’s Cybersecurity Sector
This report compiles research findings from the “Women’s Participation in Southeast Asia’s Cybersecurity Sector” project, which aimed to understand the cybersecurity workforce in Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Mongolia, and Thailand, identify workforce gaps, and assess women’s participation across these countries. Conducted in support of the ITU’s Women in Cyber (WiC) Mentorship […]
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A Framework for Developing Gender-Responsive Cybersecurity Policy: Assessment Tool
Authors
Year
- 2023
Description
- This assessment tool seeks to provide step-by-step advice and concrete recommendations for those wis…
A Framework for Developing Gender-Responsive Cybersecurity Policy: Assessment Tool
This assessment tool seeks to provide step-by-step advice and concrete recommendations for those wishing to develop a gender approach to cybersecurity policy. Building on APC’s previous work on a human rights approach to cyber- security, online gender-based violence, and cybersecurity and gender, ranging from research to advocacy, this document is […]
Tool
Guide To Fostering Inclusive Cyber Norm Processes (Inclusive Cyber Norms Toolkit)
Authors
Year
- 2023
Description
- This toolkit is a pathbreaking new resource which aims to support and empower policymakers and other…
Guide To Fostering Inclusive Cyber Norm Processes (Inclusive Cyber Norms Toolkit)
This toolkit is a pathbreaking new resource which aims to support and empower policymakers and other stakeholders to ensure a fully inclusive approach to the development and implementation of cyber norms. Inspiration for creating the toolkit emerged out of Global Partner Digital’s (GPD) extensive engagement in global and regional processes […]
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Gendering Cybersecurity through Women, Peace and Security: Gender and Human Rights in National-level Approaches to Cybersecurity
Authors
Year
- 2023
Description
- There is a growing awareness on the multilateral level of the need to integrate a gender perspective…
Gendering Cybersecurity through Women, Peace and Security: Gender and Human Rights in National-level Approaches to Cybersecurity
There is a growing awareness on the multilateral level of the need to integrate a gender perspective into international cybersecurity. State, and civil society actors have called for this purpose to apply the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS), along with international frameworks and conventions on gender equality. However, there is […]
Tool
Integrating gender in cybercrime capacity-building: A toolkit
Authors
Year
- 2023
Description
- About The ‘Integrating gender in cybercrime capacity-building’ toolkit by Chatham House …
Integrating gender in cybercrime capacity-building: A toolkit
About The ‘Integrating gender in cybercrime capacity-building’ toolkit by Chatham House has been designed for practitioners working to integrate gender considerations in anti-cybercrime capacity-building activities. The impacts of cybercrime on women, LGBTIQ people and other minoritized communities, undermine progress on gender equality and contribute to global insecurity. The toolkit thus […]
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Cyber Violence against Women and Girls in the Western Balkans: Selected Case Studies and a Cybersecurity Governance Approach
Authors
Year
- 2021
Description
- This publication focuses on the Western Balkan region and seeks to portray this important issue thro…
Cyber Violence against Women and Girls in the Western Balkans: Selected Case Studies and a Cybersecurity Governance Approach
This publication focuses on the Western Balkan region and seeks to portray this important issue through vivid case studies from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Serbia. While each case study is unique, the stories of the women portrayed in them are symbolic of the struggles many women around the world […]
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Gender Equality, Cybersecurity and Security Sector Governance
Authors
Year
- 2022
Description
- This paper describes for the first time the link between good governance in cybersecurity and gende…
Gender Equality, Cybersecurity and Security Sector Governance
This paper describes for the first time the link between good governance in cybersecurity and gender equality. It explains how an approach to cybersecurity that focuses on principles of good governance can ensure gender equality. It addresses the need to take into account the security needs of all genders in cybersecurity […]
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La ciberseguridad de las mujeres durante la pandemia del COVID-19: experiencias, riesgos y estrategias de autocuidado en la nueva normalidad digital
Authors
Year
- 2021
Description
- En este documento, se propone un análisis del escenario de ciberataques surgido a propósito de la …
La ciberseguridad de las mujeres durante la pandemia del COVID-19: experiencias, riesgos y estrategias de autocuidado en la nueva normalidad digital
En este documento, se propone un análisis del escenario de ciberataques surgido a propósito de la crisis sanitaria en conjunto con las dinámicas de acceso y uso del internet por parte de las mujeres, así como de las condiciones de desigualdad de género sistémicas que inciden dentro y fuera de […]
Tool
Manual on Online Gender Violence and its Impact on the Lives of Women and Girls
Authors
Year
- 2021
Description
- The Inter-American Commission of Women (CIM) and Cybersecurity Program of the Inter-American Committ…
Manual on Online Gender Violence and its Impact on the Lives of Women and Girls
The Inter-American Commission of Women (CIM) and Cybersecurity Program of the Inter-American Committee against Terrorism (CICTE), within the Organization of American States, collaborated to update an earlier 2019 manual of information, tools and strategies for countering online gender-based violence. The manual can be used by capacity builders to better understand […]
Publication
System Update: Towards a Women, Peace and Cybersecurity Agenda
Authors
Year
- 2021
Description
- System Update explores the relationship between the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda on the on…
System Update: Towards a Women, Peace and Cybersecurity Agenda
System Update explores the relationship between the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda on the one hand and cyber-enabled threats and cybersecurity on the other. The paper analyses the linkages between WPS priority themes—gender equality, women’s participation in international security, prevention and protection of violence against women, gender-differentiated needs—and international […]
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Gender Approaches to Cybersecurity: Design, Defence and Response
Authors
Year
- 2021
Description
- “Gender Approaches to Cybersecurity” explores how gender norms shape specific activities…
Gender Approaches to Cybersecurity: Design, Defence and Response
“Gender Approaches to Cybersecurity” explores how gender norms shape specific activities pertaining to cybersecurity design, defence and response. In each of these three pillars, the research identifies distinct dimensions of cyber-related activities that have gendered implications and, thus, need to be considered from a gender perspective. The report proposes recommendations […]
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New Ways to Bring Women Into and Up Through Cybersecurity Careers
Authors
Year
- 2019
Description
- Women make up less than one-quarter of the cybersecurity workforce, which can lead to less innovatio…
New Ways to Bring Women Into and Up Through Cybersecurity Careers
Women make up less than one-quarter of the cybersecurity workforce, which can lead to less innovation, inferior design, seriously underutilized human potential, and needlessly unfilled jobs in a growing field. In short, this lack of gender diversity means poorer security. Existing efforts to address the issue have begun to create […]
