The Problem

Equality online does not exist. Online spaces emulate the real world and hate is no exception. As part of the UN's "Promotion, protection and enjoyment of human rights on the Internet" several specific issues of cyber violence and hate speech online against women were addressed. However other multilateral organizations have been slow to react, due to many of these new forms of violence constantly evolving and changing. Below are some studies that described and define the issue. However that still remains the projects biggest weakness, what exactly are the victims of sexual harassment and sexist hate speech online experiencing? We need to know in order to build robust barriers against this online brutality.

1. Cyber violence and Hate Speech Online against Women
2. Women's Media Centre
3. What is gender based violence
4. Violence against women: an EU-wide survey. Main results report
5. European Institute for Gender Equality
6. International Center for Research on Women
7. Internet Governance Forum (2015) - Online Abuse and Gender-Based Violence Against Women

No.	Details	Definitions	The Victims	The Perpetrators	What	Remarks
1.	Review - UN, EU, Amnesty & academic	Builds on 2. & 7. definitions & categorizes: violation of privacy, harassment, stalking, sexist hate speech, direct violence	Women, public women, young women & intersecting identities. Female politicians are overall targets for mob attacks. Female journalists are also at particular risk of being targeted by cyber violence and hate speech. Women academics. Women blogging about politics or identify as feminist also face great risks of online abuse. Women Human Rights Defenders.	Perpetrators are mostly young men on social media and half of them are known to their victims.	Women do not have to be internet users to be victims of cyber violence.