One of the most prevalent human rights abuses worldwide is gender-based violence. It refers to violence committed against a person because of their gender. Men and women are both impacted by it, but I believe that women and girls are the most sufferers and victims of it.
Positive impacts of social media on gender-based violence
Social media is widely used to receive news and share information to many people irrespective of where they live. This enables the public to voice out their issues for help and allows rooms for opinions and views on current affairs affecting the same people. It can also prevent gender-based violence by: -
- Giving awareness
- Influence and mobilize people
- Finding out the root cause of the issue, talking out and educating people about the issue and promoting the action plan to tackle the issue.
Negative impacts of social media on gender-based violence
Social media can be a platform that promotes gender inequality and discrimination leading to gender-based violence by: -
- Sending out hate comments and violent insults
- Objectifying women and girl and sexualizing them
- Stalking
- Hacking and
- Catfishing
Gender-based violence takes a huge toll on a person’s physical and psychological well-being. Everyone is eligible for the right to safety and security regardless of their gender, race, shape, sexuality et cetera.
Gender based violence is indeed one major issue that needs all the attention it could get to bring awareness and as I’m reading this, I’m glad that you tackled every single aspect on it. This is incredible and very much worthy to be read.
ReplyDeleteOh thank you so much for this, I really appreciate your time.
DeleteI love this thank you so much for mentioning that not only women experience GVB men actually do go through the same but they choose to be silent about it because they fear being labelled as weak men .
ReplyDeleteYes yes yes, thank you so much.
DeleteI think gender based violence is still an issue because our government is not taking it seriously. Like providing campaigns that will help against it. But reading from what you wrote here, I can see that there are still people who can help us fight this. Which is very interesting
ReplyDeleteYeah right? I believe so as well, there's still a chance, together we can fight this!
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ReplyDeleteAs a woman I love reading such blogs,raising awareness for GBV is something that we need as a country. This blog has really help me as a woman and I'm sure it will help other people too .
ReplyDeleteOh really? I'm so glad it has because one of the core purposes of my blog as a whole is to provide a safe space for people, especially women allowing them to have a voice. Hopefully and thank you for your time, really appreciated.
DeleteAs someone who has personally suffered fromGBV i really do believe that social media has helped alot of women escape GBV.If you really think about it,how many cases of GBV do you see on your FYP in a week?Most of those cases are usually victims exposing their abusers and seeking for help and freedom from that whole situation.There will always be atleast one person that will help,whether their sharing information on how to contain a protection order for example (which some people may not know about) or help you go and actually report this person or might actually be a police official.So Social media is a very powerful platform when it comes to making awareness on important social issues such as GBV
ReplyDeleteI agree with you on this. As much as social media may really have its own cons on the issue, it is relatively the best in bringing awareness as well to help towards fighting the cause.
DeleteKeep on empowering woman and every other person who is a victim of gender based violence,it's good you've raised awareness on this issue because most people needs the information as gender based violence is very common and has been ongoing till date maybe with your information can help stop gender based violence.
ReplyDeleteThat's the plan, everyone has the right to safety and security that GBV keeps violating, it's high time we put an end to it!
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