Violence against women via cyberspace

An important theme at the consultation reported on in this article, was the construction of identities in cyberspace, and the ways in which they are implicated in the perpetration of violence against women, where new technologies enable a transgression of the boundaries of “physical” or “real” identities. Also, in the Indian context, images on the internet or through mobile telephones are used by stalkers to denigrate, intimidate and harass women on- and off-line. The consultation emphasized the urgency of building a wider dialogue around the interface of technology with culture, institutions of family and marriage, sexuality, body, privacy, and freedom of expression