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 less attention to the implications of the WPS and other international frameworks for formulating national policies.

The report addresses this gap by analyzing the integration or non-integration of gender and women’s rights in National Cyber Security Strategies (NCS) and how cybersecurity concerns are reflected or not reflected in National Action Plans (NAPs) on WPS and other relevant women’s rights and gender equality policy instruments.

Based on the analysis conducted, the report issues recommendations  to improve the gender sensitivity of national-level approaches to cybersecurity.

The report was borne out of a project by the ICT4Peace Foundation and the Global Network of Women Peacebuilders (GNWP) with the support of the Swiss Ministry of Foreign Affairs.