Meet Womankind Worldwide with partners at CSW70 

Womankind Worldwide alongside partners will be participating in the 70th session of the Commission of the Status of Women (CSW70) from 9-19 March 2026. This year’s priority theme is: Ensuring and strengthening access to justice for all women and girls, including by promoting inclusive and equitable legal systems, eliminating discriminatory laws, policies, and practices, and addressing structural barriers. These are critical issues that are also part of Womankind’s agenda particularly on digital safety for women and girls ending technological facilitated gender-based violence (TFGBV).  

We will be co-organising a side event: Disrupting the continuum of TFGBV together with our partners from Kenya, Uganda, Nepal, Zimbabwe, Afghanistan and Ethiopia. This session will draw reflections on the gendered nature of online violence and how it continues to impact women and girls- denying them opportunities socially, economically and politically.  

Launching a research report: Unsafe by Design: An Analysis of the TFGBV Continuum– we highlight the experiences of women and gender diverse people with intersecting identities online-including indigenous, black, disabled, LGBTQI+, migrant and religious women.  

Our call to action:

• Redesigned technology prioritising safety over profit through adoption of Safety by Design standards  

• Strengthened content moderation and enforcement especially in Global South countries where language coverage is not extensive  

• Enforced transparency and accountability through international regulation standards that extends duty of care to users  

• Digital literacy focused on helping users to understand risks, and make informed choices of how to engage online 

Session: Disrupting the continuum of TFGBV

Date: 13th March, 12:30-2:00pm, Salvation Army, Auditorium 

Hosts: Womankind Worldwide, the Open University – Centre for Protecting Women Online and Femicide Count Kenya 

About this session: In this session we will launch the analysis report on TFGBV: Disrupting the Continuum of Online Violence. The report identifies key patterns of TFGBV, provides critical insights, and informs advocacy efforts aimed at ending this form of violence. 

Speakers: 

• Wangechi Wachira, Executive Director, Centre for Rights Education and Awareness (CREAW) 

• Georgia Tumesigwe, Programme Manager, FOWODE 

• Dibabe Bacha, Executive Director, Ethiopia Women’s Disability National Association 

• Nargis Nehan, Founder, FARAGEER 

• Latifah Namutebi, Strategic Partnership and Advocacy Lead, Women’s International Peace Centre 

• Renu Sijapati, Founding Member and General Secretary, Feminist Dalit Organisation (FEDO) 

• Professor Olga Jurasz, Director of Centre for Protecting Women Online, the Open University