Technology-facilitated gender-based violence

In its resolution 56/19, the Human Rights Council requested the Advisory Committee to prepare a study on technology-facilitated gender-based violence and its impact on women and girls, including by developing a better understanding of the issue, highlighting good practices around the globe in tackling gender-based violence that occurs through or is amplified by the use of technology, and making recommendations on how to address the issue, and to present the study to the Human Rights Council at its sixty-third session.

In resolution 56/19, the Human Rights Council also requested the Advisory Committee to work in close collaboration with relevant stakeholders, including the Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, its causes and consequences, the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, the Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy, the Working Group on discrimination against women and girls, the Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women) and the United Nations Population Fund, to seek the views of and inputs from and to take into account relevant work already done by stakeholders, including States, United Nations agencies, entities, funds and programmes within their respective mandates, international and regional organizations, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the special procedures of the Human Rights Council, the treaty bodies, national human rights institutions, survivors and survivor centred-organizations, civil society, including women’s rights and youth organizations, the private sector, academic institutions, multi-stakeholder initiatives and other relevant stakeholders, when preparing the above-mentioned study.

The Advisory Committee established a drafting group.

The current members of the drafting group are:

• Noor Al-Jehani
• Buhm-Suk Baek
• Nadia Bernoussi (Chair)
• Vasilka Sancin
• Vassilis Tzevelekos
• Catherine Van de Heyning (Rapporteur)