Digital violence against women is one of the most widespread human rights violations worldwide and one of the most serious types of violence women have recently faced as the Internet develops, for which women are particularly vulnerable to social media sites, resulting in physical, sexual or mental harm or suffering to women, and its means and tools vary over time.
The report noted that digital violence takes many forms of (penetration, spoofing, harassment, employment, distribution of fake materials, inadmissible access/ control, manipulation of information, surveillance and tracing, racist discourse, threat, non-consensual sharing of private information, extortion, vilification, violation and sexual exploitation associated with technology, attack on channels of communication, and ignoring or omitting regulators).
