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Amnesty International raps Twitter for violating women's rights
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IANS | 21 Mar, 2018
Twitter is failing to respect women's rights online by inadequately
investigating and responding to reports of violence and abuse in a
transparent manner, Amnesty International has alleged in its latest
report.
For many women, Twitter is a platform where violence and
abuse against them flourishes, often with little accountability, said
the report titled #ToxicTwitter: Violence and abuse against women
online" on Tuesday.
Far from strengthening women's voices, the
violence and abuse many women experience on the platform leads them to
self-censor what they post, limit their interactions, and even drives
women off the microblogging site completely.
The report based on
interviews with 86 women -- both individually and in groups - in Britain
and the US cites several such abusive tweets mentioning Nicola
Sturgeon, First Minister of Scotland.
"Online abuse is
unacceptable for women in politics, just as it's unacceptable for a
woman anywhere to suffer that kind of abuse," Sturgeon was quoted as
saying.
Abuse experienced by women on the platform includes
direct or indirect threats of physical or sexual violence,
discriminatory abuse targeting one or more aspects of a woman's
identity, targeted harassment, and privacy violations such as doxing or
sharing sexual or intimate images of a woman without her consent,
Amnesty International found after 16 months of research.
Twitter
has touted itself as a place where "every voice has the power to impact
the world" , but its failure to adequately respect human rights and
effectively tackle violence and abuse on the platform means that instead
of women using their voices "to impact the world", many women are
instead being pushed backwards to a culture of silence, the report said.
"As the world becomes increasingly connected online, our
reliance on social media platforms such as Twitter has also become
increasingly important. But the online world, and social media platforms
like Twitter are not immune to many of the human rights abuses that
women face offline," it said.
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