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Waiguru launches anti-cyberbullying campaign as she bags ‘Women’s Leadership’ award
The Council of Governors Chairperson, Anne Waiguru, on Tuesday launched a campaign against cyberbullying as she got the Women’s Leadership Award.
The award given to her by Echo Network Africa (ENA), an organization that collaborates to propel women empowerment agenda, was a recognition of her efforts in championing for women leadership and brazing the trail for those aiming to take up top political leadership in the country.
The anti-cyberbullying campaign dubbed ‘Stop Cyberbullies’ is spearheaded by ENA and will run in the next four weeks. It is aimed is aimed at creating awareness and mobilizing public support towards calling out cyberbullying for the crime that it and appealing for more action from policy makers in making cyber bullying a costly crime to commit.
Waiguru who is also the second-term governor of Kirinyaga County said that the campaign launch was a curtain raiser to the oncoming International Women’s Day whose theme is ‘DigitAll: Innovation and Technology for Gender Equality’ highlighting the power of technology in helping women overcome various challenges.
“As we launch this campaign today, we would like to speak with one voice and call out cyber bullying for the crime that it is and remind us that we all have a role to play in eliminating it. From a true human perspective, the words Cyber bullying do not come close to capturing the severity and lasting impacts for the victims and survivors or convey the links between online and offline experiences of violence.” Stressed the governor.
She said that she has been a victim of cyber bullying in many instances and more so during her campaigns, observing that though cyber bullying affects both genders, women suffer disproportionately compared to men. She shared about several other women who have been cyberbullied for mundane reasons, leading to some of them losing their jobs and others committing suicide. She cited African Bank study that revealed that up to 70% of women have endured cyber violence and that women are 27 times more likely than men to be harassed online.
Waiguru noted that cyberbullying can hinder how women participate in public discourses and processes as many of them will cower, self-censor, and in some instances, totally withdraw from public, civic and social media spaces.
She pointed out that technology-facilitated violence comprises a spectrum of behaviors, including stalking, bullying, sexual harassment, defamation, hate speech and exploitation, noting that there are just a few interventions that specifically address technology facilitated GBV and that the ones that exist are mostly small scale and untested.
The governor said that the speed at which access to technologies is rapidly spreading has far outpaced the policy efforts of governments and other stakeholders to monitor or control the harmful usage of these gadgets, particularly in developing countries like Kenya, where dealing with cyberbullying is not among the top priorities, even though it is recognized as a problem.
Just last week, musician Wahu Kagwi was the victim of online trolls.
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