{"id":8632,"date":"2024-05-10T21:29:19","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T21:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/internationalpulse.net\/?p=8632"},"modified":"2024-05-10T21:29:19","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T21:29:19","slug":"online-abuse-silences-women-in-ethiopia-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/internationalpulse.net\/?p=8632","title":{"rendered":"Online abuse silences women in Ethiopia, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gdb.voanews.com\/01000000-0aff-0242-83f6-08dc7134fb12_w800_h450.jpeg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"wsw\">\n<span class=\"dateline\">Addis Ababa, Ethiopia \u2014\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Research into online abuse and hate speech reveals most women in Ethiopia face gender-targeted attacks across Facebook, Telegram and X.<\/p>\n<p>The abuse and hate speech are prompting many Ethiopian women to withdraw from public life, online and off, according to the recent research.<\/p>\n<p>The Center for Information Resilience, a U.K.-based nonprofit organization, spearheaded the study. The CIR report, released Wednesday, says that women in Ethiopia are on the receiving end of abuse and hate speech across all three social media platforms, with Facebook cited as the worst.<\/p>\n<p>Over 2,000 inflammatory keywords were found in the research, which looked at three Ethiopian languages \u2014 Amharic, Afan Oromo and Tigrigna \u2014 as well as English. The list is the most comprehensive inflammatory word lexicon in Ethiopia, according to the researchers.<\/p>\n<p>Over 78% of the women interviewed reported feelings of fear or anxiety after experiencing online abuse.<\/p>\n<p>It is highly likely similar problems exist in areas of society that have not been analyzed yet, said Felicity Mulford, editor and researcher at CIR.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis data can be used by human rights advocates, women\u2019s rights advocates, in their advocacy,\u201d she said. \u201cWe believe that it\u2019s incredibly impactful, because even though we\u2019ve only got four languages, it shows some of the [trends] that exist across Ethiopia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Online abuse is so widespread in Ethiopia that it has been \u201cnormalized to the point of invisibility,\u201d the report\u2019s authors said.<\/p>\n<p>Betelehem Akalework, co-founder of Setaset Power, an Afro-feminist movement in Ethiopia, said her work has opened doors to more-serious, targeted attacks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe [were] mentally prepared for it to some extent,\u201d she said. \u201cWe [weren\u2019t] surprised that the backlash was that heavy, but then we did not anticipate the gravity of that backlash. So, we took media training, and we took digital security trainings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Ethiopian Human Rights Defenders Center, established three years ago, offers protection for human rights defenders and social media activists in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The center\u2019s program coordinator, Kalkidan Tesfaye, said there must be more initiative from the government in education and policymaking to help women protect themselves from online abuse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn our recommendation earlier, we were talking about how the Ministry of Education can incorporate digital safety training &#8230; a very essential element to learning about computers or acquiring digital skills,\u201d Tesfaye said.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers also investigated other protected characteristics under Ethiopian law, including ethnicity, religion and race. 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