The Global Gender Digital Divide and Its Implications for Women’s Human Rights and Equality

This article introduces the global disparity of access to Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and its impact on women and girls. It emphasizes barriers to women’s access to ICTs and the problem of cyberviolence against women and girls. It argues that although such violence might not be framed as a classic human rights issue since it is usually perpetrated by private actors, human rights discourse is needed to provide remedies because the violence is grounded in discrimination. The author proposes the collection of sex-disaggregated data and the support at the policy level as an immediate approach, and the creation of a “Feminist Internet” as a future direction in amplifying women’s voices.