A/HRC/38/47 Foundation,49 based in Pakistan, which addresses online harassment, technology and gender through research, advocacy and service delivery. Its Cyber Harassment Helpline is the region’s first dedicated helpline for cases of online harassment and violence. 87. Awareness-raising initiatives have been organized, such as the Internet Democracy Project,50 a not-for-profit initiative based in New Delhi, which provides research, advocacy and spaces for debate on online violence and its prevention. In Germany, rape crisis centres and women’s counselling centres seek to raise awareness, provide support and educate on preventing online violence.51 Another example is the International Federation of Journalists, which, together with the South Asia Media Solidarity Network, has campaigned against the online abuse of women journalists and launched in March 2017 the ByteBack campaign, dedicated to fighting online harassment.52 The Association for Progressive Communications, a global network of non-governmental organizations, has organized the “End violence: Women’s rights and safety online” project, which focuses on capacitybuilding for human rights activists and women’s organizations in the use of technology in their activities. 88. Lastly (among many others), the Project Shift: Creating a Safer Digital World for Young Women, led by YWCA Canada, aims to prevent and eliminate cyberviolence against young women and girls. The project has also led to the preparation of “A Guide for Trusted Adults: Practical Tips and Tools for Supporting Girls and Young Women Navigating Life Online”.53 IV. Conclusion and recommendations 89. International human rights law and the Sustainable Development Goals and targets on achieving gender equality, empowering women and girls and eliminating violence against women in public and private life are fully applicable in digital spaces and actions enabled by ICT. Moreover, the principle that human rights and women’s rights protected offline must also be protected online should fully integrate the right to live free from emerging forms of online and ICT-facilitated violence against women, while respecting the right to freedom of expression and the right to privacy and data protection. Given its characteristics, ICT should serve as a tool for accelerating the achievement of all human rights, including gender equality, the empowerment of women and the elimination of discrimination and violence against women. 90. Legal and policy measures to eradicate online gender-based violence against women should be framed within the broader framework of human rights that addresses the structural discrimination, violence and inequalities that women face, and seek to create an enabling environment for achieving gender equality through the use of ICT. 91. To achieve the above-mentioned goals, any effective response to online genderbased violence against women will require the cooperation of States, Internet intermediaries and all other stakeholders on the acceptance and implementation of all core international human rights instruments, including those on women’s rights. A. Recommendations for the United Nations 92. The Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy, the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, and other special procedure mandate holders and relevant treaty bodies should 49 50 51 52 53 18 See https://digitalrightsfoundation.pk/cyber-harassment-helpline. See http://internetdemocracy.in. See www.frauen-gegen-gewalt.de/the-federal-association.html. See https://samsn.ifj.org/ifj-byteback-campaign/. Available from http://ywcacanada.ca/data/documents/00000543.pdf.