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The UN session

Brad Glasgow livetweeted the sesssion. https://archive.is/7X3vd https://archive.is/e1PZL https://archive.is/5KfGc

> Baroness Beeban Kidron is the keynote speaker … Every child should have a right to remove all content that they have created from the internet, says the Baroness. Every child should have a right to know who holds their information online and what it is to be used for.

> Now Nidhi Tandon is talking about the Broadband report presented to the UN. She saw kids in East Africa with an old flip phone, and she went over to see what they're looking at… it was porn. She says the report says 73% of women online have faced online violence … She is now inviting 5 women "discussants" including Quinn and Sarkeesian.

> Dafne Sabanes Plou says 49% of the women who have experienced online attacks go to police and they don't have an answer… A recurring theme seems to be them calling for education of children to prevent this problem of online violence against women.

> Zoe says a lot of BLM activists have used Crash Override Network.

> Now it's Anita's turn. "Hate videos" and the "day to day grind" of being called a liar are harassment, she says.

> Now it's Madeline di Nonno's turn. She's talking about the online dangers for children. She talks about creating a children's TV series aimed at kids aged 6-9 to teach them about gendered violence.

> Some professor from Rwanda says it's not just a women's issue. He says men and women should be involved as much as possible. He argues that we should own our own data online.

> A rep for Irina Bukova says she gave a TED talk in Paris about cyber bullying and was surprised that the mixed audience wasn't interested.

> Looks like this is the Broadband Commission's report, "Cyber Violence Against Women and Girls" http://www.broadbandcommission.org/Documents/reports/bb-wg-gender-report2015.pdf ¿ Reading it now.

> Cyber-VAWG - Violence Against Women and Girls … "includes hate speech (publishing a blasphemous libel), hacking, identity theft, online stalking (criminal harassment) and uttering threats" The UN considers "hate speech (publishing a blasphemous libel)" as cyber-violence against women. What's blasphemous libel?

> I should make it clear that it's not the United Nations itself making these claims. It's the United Nations Broadband Commission. They have a disclaimer on their report saying that their views do not necessarily reflect the views of the UN.

Glasgow issued a follow-up report.

> UN hopes to have revised "cyber violence" report available by year's end

> the United Nations International Telecommunication Union (ITU) apologized for several errors in its report on cyber violence against women and girls. Sarah Parkes, media and public information chief at ITU said she expected the revised report in a couple of weeks.

http://gamepolitics.com/2015/11/10/un-hopes-to-have-revised-cyber-violence-report-available-by-years-end/#more-20783

https://archive.is/rj4Py

Nidhi Tandon is the director of Canadian NGO Networked Intelligence and is credited on the ITU blog for a post promoting the report "Cyber Violence against Women and Girls: : A world-wide wake-up call"

https://itu4u.wordpress.com/2015/09/25/cyber-violence-against-women-and-girls/ https://archive.is/pePac

David Sullivan, formerly of the Global Network Initiative, condemned "gamergate trolls" for opposing the UN report and praised the Association for Progressive Communications.

https://np.red*dit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/3ol3x2/david_sullivan_of_global_network_initiative_for/

Sullivan's LinkedIn was blanked https://archive.is/9GpfP

a screenshot of an earlier Linkedin lists previous experience at Center for American Progress and International Foundation for Electoral Systems

http://theralphretort.com/un-update-hack-calls-me-a-con-conspiracy-theorist-new-info-on-their-next-moves-1014015/

Sullivan was published in UN Dispatch whose publisher is Peter Daou and whose managing editor is Mark Leon Goldberg.

Jac Sm Kee, Women’s Rights Programme Manager, Association for Progressive Communications, issued a press release attacking "misoynists, trolls and a variety of people who associate with the #Gamergate hashtag" for taking over the #TakeBackTheTech and #ImagineAFeministInternet hashtags.

https://www.apc.org/en/pubs/take-action-takebackthetech-and-imagineafeministin

https://archive.is/vp4zD

IGF Best Practices Forum

http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/best-practice-forums/4-practices-to-countering-abuse-against-women-online

https://archive.is/9Avgq

Coordinators:

* Jac SM Kee – Association for Progressive Communications (jac@apcwomen.org)

* Subi Chaturvedi – Delhi University (subichaturvedi@gmail.com)

Rapporteur:

* Anri van der Spuy – UN Secretariat of the IGF (avanderspuy@unog.ch)

Other sessions

The session was part of a series of events organized by UN Women to mark the 20th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action.

https://archive.is/fmoiZ

The keynote event on September 27, Global Leaders’ Meeting on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment: A Commitment to Action, was co-hosted by UN Women and the People’s Republic of China. Speakers included UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, Chinese President Xi Jinping, and the Presidents of Mexico and Kenya.

The launch of the "cyber violence" report was one of the opening acts on September 24.

24 SEPTEMBER Civil Society Thought Leaders’ Meeting

Closed meeting led by Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka. Attendees:

* Charlotte Bunch, gender studies professor at Rutgers https://archive.is/AeStN

* Musimbi Kanyoro, CEO of the Global Fund for Women

* Tarcila Rivera Zea, Peruvian indigenous activist

* Bineta Diop, founder of Femmes Africa Solidarité of Senegal

25 SEPTEMBER Transforming Economies: Empowering Women and Girls Special Event

Co-hosted by Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka (see earlier) and Justine Greening, UK MP and Secretary of State for International Development.

Organized in collaboration with CARE International, Vital Voices, Business for Social Responsibility, and others.

Moderated by Nicholas Kristof, New York Times columnist and author of Half the Sky. Suzanne Seggerman's Games For Change spent around $360k in 2011 and 2012 for the Half The Sky transmedia project (check their 990s).

26 SEPTEMBER The Global Leaders’ Meeting on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment - a Commitment to Action included:

* Jack Yun MA, Executive Chairman, Alibaba Group

* Melinda Gates, Co-Chair and Trustee, Gates Foundation,

* Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

* Paul Polman, CEO, Unilever,

* Vandana Sikka of Infosys

26 SEPTEMBER

Using Inclusive Partnerships to Deliver on the SDGs: The Role of Gender-Responsive Budgeting

> Co-chairs of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation — Mexico, Malawi and the Netherlands — will host this event, along with UN Women which will be an interactive discussion on lesson learnt during country level application of gender responsive budgeting.

27 SEPTEMBER Civil Society Watch: Governments’ Commitments to Action: A Civil Society Parallel Event to the UN Global Leaders’ Meeting on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment

Co-sponsors:

* NGO Committee on the Status of Women/NY

* Planned Parenthood Federation of America

* Baha’i International Community

* Center for Women’s Global Leadership and Post-2015 Women’s Coalition

An associated flyer promotes the #WorldWeWant hash tag and is authored by Soon-Young Yoon.

29 SEPTEMBER A Fairer Future for All: Fighting Inequalities and Discrimination at the Heart of the 2030 Agenda – High-Level Ministerial Breakfast

Speakers:

* E. Lenita Toivakka, Minister for International Development and Foreign Trade, Finland

* Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and Jordanian ambassador

* Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Executive Director, UN Women

* Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director, Oxfam International.

Moderator: Craig Mokhiber, Chief of Development, Economic and Social Issues Branch, UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.

29 SEPTEMBER Empowering Women in Climate Action

> Hosted by UN Women, UNDP and France, the forum will highlight the need for the future Paris Agreement will be to contribute to reducing gender inequalities and integrating gender considerations into the climate change agenda. Participants include the French Foreign Minister, UNDP Administrator Helen Clark, and UN Women Deputy Executive Director Yannick Glemarec.

29 SEPTEMBER Women Deliver: Road to Copenhagen 2016: Making SDGs Matter Most for Women and Girls

> UN Women, the Danish Mission to the United Nations and Women Deliver along with 100-150 decision-makers from government and CSOs will come together to promote a gendered perspective on the implementation of the SDGs.

SDGs = Sustainable Development Goals

Speakers include

* Crown Princess Mary of Denmark

* Mr. Kristian Jensen, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Denmark

* Nana Oye Lithur, Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection of Ghana

* Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women

* Catherine Nyambura, Women Deliver Young Leader from Kenya

* Katja Iversen and Jill Sheffield of Women Deliver

The Working Group on Gender is co-chaired by Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka and Helen Clark.

http://www.broadbandcommission.org/workinggroups/Pages/bbandgender.aspx

https://archive.is/9qiBU

Membership

WG-BG comprises the following members, including 20 Commissioners and 21 external members:

Commissioners:

1 Hamadoun Touré ITU

2 Reza Jafari E-Development Intl

3 Jasna Matiç Serbia

4 Hessa Al-Jaber ictQATAR

5 Saad Bin Dhafer AL-QAHTANI STC

6 Amir Dossal Global Partnerships Forum

7 Suvi Lindén Finland

8 Kathy Calvin UN Foundation

9 Michel Combes Alcatel-Lucent

10 Irina Bokova UNESCO

11 Supachai Panitchpakdi UNCTAD

12 Julius Genachowski The Carlyle Group​

13 José Manuel Do Rosario Toscano ITSO

14 Paul Jacobs Qualcomm

15 Paul Mitchell Microsoft

16 John Chambers CISCO

17 Kim Seang-tae National Information Society Agency, Korea

18 Jeffrey Sachs Earth Institute at Columbia University

19 Hans Vestberg Ericsson

20 Speranza Ndege Kenyatta University

21 Anne Bouverot GSMA

22 Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka UN Women

Invited members – External Experts

1 Akhtar Badshah Microsoft

2 Margaret Chan WHO

3 Ann Mei Chang US State Department

4 Kate Cornick University of Melbourne

5 Geena Davis Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media

6 Chat Garcia-Ramilo Association for Progressive Communications

7 Ann Glover Chief Scientific Advisor, European Commission

8 Nancy Hafkin Women in Global Science and Technology

9 Omobola Johnson Federal Ministry of Communication Technology, Nigeria

10 Sonia Jorge Alliance for Affordable Internet

11 Jeni Klugman The World Bank

12 Cheryl D. Miller Zen Digital

13 Amina J. Mohammed United Nations

14 Monique Morrow Cisco

15 Antonella Notari-Vischer Womanity.org

16 Miguel Raimilla Telecentre.org Foundation

17 Juliana Rotich Ushahidi

18 Zainab Salbi Women 4 Women Intl.

19 Deborah Taylor Tate Tech Needs Girls

20 Renee Wittemyer INTEL

21 Anita Gurumurthy IT for Change

The Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development is part of ITU and UNESCO

http://www.broadbandcommission.org/events/Pages/12thMeeting.aspx

https://archive.is/lW4dY

The four co-chairs are: https://archive.is/A9Mwo

* Paul Kagame of Rwanda

* Carlos Slim of Mexico

* Houlin Zhao of ITU

* Irina Bokova of UNESCO

There is a huge list of commissioners under them. Picking out a few names of possible interest:

* Gordon Graylish of Intel

* Francis Gurry of World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

* Tony Lake of UNICEF, former national security advisor to Bill Clinton

* Nicholas Negroponte of MIT Media Lab

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

The John Birch Society has been sounding the alarm about the ITU. This stuff is not verified.

UN to Seek Internet Kill Switch Next Month, Documents Show

http://www.thenewamerican.com/tech/computers/item/13656-un-to-seek-internet-kill-switch-next-month-documents-show

> The ITU’s proposals to “reform” the Internet, drafted in secret and quietly published online last week, revealed a broad plan to rein in what, up until now, has been a largely unregulated tool allowing people all over the world to freely express their views at little to no cost financially. Unlike dictatorships such as the communist regime ruling over mainland China and the governments of Muslim-dominated countries, most Western-style governments have been unable or unwilling to regulate the Web apart from minor restrictions on subjects such as child pornography and the like.

> However, that could all change soon — at least if the UN and its tyrannical member states get their way, with a broad coalition of Islamist autocrats and communist despots joining forces to quash freedom of expression for everyone. Representatives from almost 200 governments and dictatorships will be meeting behind closed doors next month at the “World Conference on International Telecommunications” (WCIT) in the United Arab Emirates to discuss handing complete control over the Internet to the ITU.

> … Among the chief problems cited by analysts is a plan to allow UN members — mostly dictatorships — to demand that the ITU shut down content they do not approve of. The scheme would also create a global Internet surveillance regime while permitting governments to restrict or block online information. Anonymity on the Web would become a thing of the past, too.

Chinese Communist to Lead UN Agency Seeking to Control Internet

http://www.thenewamerican.com/tech/computers/item/19386-chinese-communist-to-lead-un-agency-seeking-to-control-internet

Who Will Control Your Internet?

http://www.thenewamerican.com/tech/computers/item/19326-who-will-control-your-internet

Association for Progressive Communications (APC) provided infotech services to the UN in the early 1990s

http://eclipse.wustl.edu/~listmgr/devel-l/Jun1996/0049.html

Sourcewatch profile :

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Association_for_Progressive_Communications

APC hosted a "dynamic coalition on integrating womens rights"

http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/2013-bali/igf-2013-transcripts/121-igf-2013/preparatory-process-42721/1443-dynamic-coalition-on-gender-integratingwomens-rights-at-the-igf-space

https://archive.is/V8Ks3

APC teamed up with the Due Diligence Project and the Robert F. Kennedy Training Institute to promote "online violence against women"

https://archive.is/2PF8F

APC has been pushing the phrase "cyber violence" since at least 2005.

https://www.red*dit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/3o4cwm/socjus_the_term_cyberviolence_may_have_been_older/

https://www.apc.org/en/projects/end-violence-womens-rights-and-safety-online

https://archive.is/M18VK

The phrase "cyber violence" goes back to a 2002 paper by Susan C. Herring which includes as examples of violence: fraud, identity theft, sexist jokes, and a website calling women attractive.

http://info.ils.indiana.edu/~herring/violence.html https://archive.is/ziXxs

Wikileaks blames Sweden for the "online gender wars"

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/647410648079577090

From >>>/8diamonds/652

> The Swedish convention where they sought to redefine the "harassment" narrative as "online violence" was kind enough to leave us a list of names, however, there are no biographies, credentials, or lists of who exactly these people are.

> https://archive.is/cF0Sg

> These are not pseudonyms, interestingly enough, but there aren't many Swedish names on the list as far as I know.

So there was a meeting in Sweden to promote the cyber violence narrative and none of the names of attendees ring a bell. This could use some more attention.

UNESCO issued a report on "Countering Online Hate Speech" by Iginio Galiardone, Danit Gal, Thiago Alves, Gabriela Martinez

UNESCO Series on Internet Freedom

Published in 2015 by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

7, place de Fontenoy, 75352 Paris 07 SP, France

ISBN 978-92-3-100105-5

page 3:

> This publication was made possible under a contribution by Sweden.

page 6:

> For race-related speech, the International Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination calls for a ban on expressing ideas of superiority or inferiority of people categorised by "race".

page 41:

> Organizations like the USA-based Anti-Defamation League (ADL), the Women, Action and the Media (WAM!), the Australian-based Online Hate Prevention Institute, the Canada-based Sentinel Groups for Genocide Prevention, and the British-based Tell Mama-Measuring Anti- Muslim Attacks have become increasingly invested in combating hate speech online by targeting Internet intermediaries and asking them to take greater responsibility in moderating content, and by trying to raise awareness among users.

page 44:

> In 2013, Women, Action and the Media group (WAM!) and the Everyday Sexism Project in the UK took an aggressive public relations approach and launched a shared campaign showing page advertisements of prominent companies in Facebook pages that disseminated graphic content that was abusive of women. In response to the campaign, both Nissan and the insurance company Nationwide pulled out their advertisements from Facebook. Upon seeing their success, the organizers, backed up by online supporters and activists began sending written complaints and photos of different advertisements in hateful pages to other major companies like Dove and American Express on their social media platforms, urging them to follow suit. As a result of this campaign, 15 major companies decided to remove their adverts from Facebook.

page 47:

> Relevant here is global citizenship education (GCED) is one of the strategic areas of work for UNESCO's Education Programme (2014-2017)129 and one of the three priorities of the UN Secretary-General¿s Global Education First Initiative (GEFI) launched in September 2012. Global Citizenship Education aims to equips learners of all ages with those values, knowledge and skills that are based on, and instill respect for, human rights, social justice, diversity, gender equality and environmental sustainability.

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), a different branch of the UN, funded the development of the Electronic Game to End Gender Violence by Ann Demarle and Heather Kelley.

https://www.etc.cmu.edu/blog/author/heatherkelley/

https://archive.is/wgVXr

A different branch of the UN called for outlawing loli manga.

> On 26 October, Maud de Boer-Buquicchio, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography, wrapped up a week-long visit to Japan with a press conference at the Japan National Press Club. "When it comes to particular, extreme child pornographic content, manga should be banned," De Boer-Buquicchio said.

https://archive.is/A7Sgs https://archive.is/SrF3m

Further reading:

Good commentary on the OpTakeBackTheTruth thread: >>285251

Recalculating The Gender War says that the "UN has become a feminist missionary organization"

http://recalculatingthegenderwar.tumblr.com/post/129975938381/dear-gamergate-un-feminism-is-more-dangerous

Mainstream American feminist groups like NOW and YWCA have adopted the "cyber violence" narrative and wrote to the Department of Education demanding that universities censor students' speech on third-party online services.

http://recalculatingthegenderwar.tumblr.com/post/131884076686/its-not-just-the-un-mainstream-feminist

>>298074

fundamental english grammatical & contextual error:

>What we know is that somebody invited the LWs to the UN to promote a shitty report about…

We actually don't know that. More than likely, the LWs actively asked to attend the UN, and they were fast-tracked in based on some personal connections. It's how they got on numerous TV outlets in the first place; they asked to appear on CNN, MSNBC, etc, the news stations didn't come looking for women to talk about video games and mean tweets. It's not on their radar as news networks, who cover and prefer real disasters.

The difference in minor, but significant. The LWs are not the worldwide celebrities that they'd like you to believe. They just have like-minded suck-up sycophants eager to trade favors in unusual places, the same way most politicians do. B.Wu gets invited to speak at colleges not because he's actually important, but because liberal arts professors invite them in, split the speakers fees, and appeal to the SJWs on campus for good-boy points and social media clout amongst themselves.

Were am I going with this? I don't know. But with the scandalous stories of CP, drug trafficking and violent threats among U.S. office staff this year, it's no surprise that they're also pandering to SJWs with similar connections to people with similar depravities(Sarkeesian's stream mod and Nyberg)

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The UN issued their revised report, and it is still lolworthy. They whine about Gamergate for six pages and cite Wikipedia.

http://theralphretort.com/report-internet-governance-forum-spergs-about-gamergate-cyber-attack-for-6-pages-12013015/

People involved:

* Sara Baker

* Susan Benesch

* Subi Chaturvedi

* Sarah Parkes

* Shannon Pritchard

* Zoya Rehman

* Suprita Sah

* Zakir Syed

Shannon Pritchard is a name match to an employee of Networked Intelligence for Development, the NGO of Nidhi Tandon of Canada.

https://web.archive.org/web/20110501233713/http://www.networkedintelligence.com/wp/about-us/

The rest of the names draw a blank except in relationship to the last report.

Did Goebbels Win?

Jan 25, 2016

About the authors: Irina Bokova is Director-General of UNESCO. Sara Bloomfield is Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/oppose-new-propaganda-of-hatred-by-irina-bokova-and-sara-bloomfield-2016-01

https://archive.is/TnxhK

The article starts by discussing how the Nazis came to power, turns this into a condemnation of ISIS activity on Twitter, and then turns around into a condemnation of whoever opposes the massive migration into Europe.

> Another worrisome trend is the increasingly sophisticated use of hate speech directed against minorities and migrants. Violent, exclusionary, and discriminatory rhetoric has returned to Europe – the land of the Holocaust. Extreme nationalists exploit the current refugee crisis, in a context of fear and deadly terrorist attacks, to gain large numbers of supporters.