{"id":8546,"date":"2026-03-29T17:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T17:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=8546"},"modified":"2026-03-29T17:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T17:04:10","slug":"as-women-march-for-rights-gender-becomes-a-digital-weapon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2026\/03\/29\/as-women-march-for-rights-gender-becomes-a-digital-weapon\/","title":{"rendered":"As Women March for Rights, Gender Becomes a Digital Weapon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On International Women&#8217;s Day 2026, women across the Western Balkans and Turkey faced intense sexist attacks and gendered disinformation in response to their protests against inequality and violence. Reports from BIRN highlight a systemic rise in digital rights violations, where identity-based disinformation is used to silence feminist activists and investigative journalists. This hostility is often amplified by political figures and &#8220;anti-gender&#8221; movements, with statistics showing that 73% of women journalists globally have experienced online violence. Beyond smear campaigns, the weaponization of intimate images and state-led crackdowns on digital expression, such as Turkey\u2019s targeting of adult content creators, are being used to reinforce patriarchal control. These documented cases reflect a broader global crisis where 67% of women and girls have experienced technology-facilitated gender-based violence, creating a chilling effect on those in the public sphere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date<\/strong>: March 11, 2026. <strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/balkaninsight.com\/2026\/03\/11\/as-women-march-for-rights-gender-becomes-a-digital-weapon\/bi\/\">balkaninsight.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On International Women&#8217;s Day 2026, women across the Western Balkans and Turkey faced intense sexist attacks and gendered disinformation in response to their protests against inequality and violence. Reports from BIRN highlight a systemic rise in digital rights violations, where identity-based disinformation is used to silence feminist activists and investigative journalists. This hostility is often [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":8548,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gender-equality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8546"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8791,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8546\/revisions\/8791"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}