Webinar: Good Practices. An approach to cyber-violence against women and girls.

Miriam Ciscar has been working in the areas international cooperation and humanitarian action for 20 years. She has worked for more than 7 years with the UN Population Fund fighting against gender-based violence in humanitarian and development contexts in countries such as the Philippines and Myanmar, among others. Since early February 2019, she has held the position of Deputy Director of the Directorate of Multilateral, Horizontal and Financial Cooperation and is the head of the Gender Unit of AECID. In addition, Miriam is a professor of the Master’s Degree in Law against Gender Violence at the University of Valencia, where she teaches international and comparative law against gender violence.

Degree in Computer Science from Deusto. In 2004, with the experience acquired in the application of multimedia tools in education and training, he identified the need to launch PantallasAmigas. Author and co-author of multiple guides for families, educational resources and multimedia campaigns for the prevention and awareness of digital threats such as cyberbullying, grooming, sexting, sextortion, gender-based cyber-violence, disinformation and hoaxes, techno-addictions and online privacy. Collaborator in university and summer courses, he has appeared several times before Congress and the Senate to speak about issues related to minors and the Internet, and in the Subcommittee for a State Pact against Gender Violence. Participant in international forums (Europe and Latin America), he has carried out consultancy and training services for the UNODC in the area of prevention of cybercrime against minors.

Master in International Economics by the HUMBOLTD University of Berlin and Project Coordinator at the Union of Women’s Associations of the Prefecture of Heraklion since 2011. He is responsible for the coordination of fundraising activities as well as projects and grants. He also provides technical assistance for the implementation of the CYBERSAFE project.

Originally from the US, Erika has been working to train women in Mexico in the use of computers and the Internet since 1991. She is a member of APC’s Women’s Rights Programme where she is responsible for networking and capacity building efforts in the Latin Americas region on issues related to gender, ICTs, digital security and feminist internet. She is part of the coordinating team of Take Back the Tech!

Bachelor in Fine Arts and a Masters in Feminist Studies, Equality Policies and Gender Violence from the University of La Laguna, as well as an Expert in Video Game Design from the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, the activist and visual artist, Nira Santana Rodríguez, raises current issues from a gender perspective, investigating the relationships between art, video games and digital culture.

Cyberfeminist workshop leader, researcher and journalist graduated from the FCPyS of the UNAM. The main axes of her research work are linked to digital security, digital violence against women, inclusion and education of women in and through ICTs. She has been an intern at organizations Derechos Digitales, Hiperderecho and Luchadoras. Representative in Mexico of acoso.online, the first platform in Latin America to resist the unauthorized dissemination of private content. She is co-founder of Colectiva Mecha and is part of the collective Ciberseguras.

She currently serves on the global Board of Directors of Amnesty International and is a member of the National Network of Women Human Rights Defenders in Mexico and the Network for Political Innovation in Latin America.

She directs Luchadoras, a collective that uses technology to move forward in the fight for gender equality, combating online gender-based abuse and advocating for an Internet free of violence against women.

Luchadoras has been recognized by the Mexico City Awards and the Mexico City Human Rights Commission. They have been finalists for the “Equals in Tech” award from the United Nations ITU, and the FRIDA Lacnic Program.