As the Association for Combating Sexual Violence, we have coordinated the Turkish publication of the report Global Trends to Prevent and Respond to Technology-Facilitated Violence Against Women and Girls: a Compendium of Emerging Practices, developed by UN Women and the Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI).
To mark this publication, we are organizing an online launch webinar to explore different forms of technology-facilitated violence, global trends in prevention and response, and ongoing discussions within the Turkish context.
We hope that this webinar will inspire new research, practice, and collaborations at the local level in the field of technology-facilitated sexualized violence.
Programme
Opening Remarks
Nurgül Öz, Association for Struggle Against Sexual Violence, Prevention Specialist
Introduction: The Turkish Context
Hazal Sipahi, Association for Struggle Against Sexual Violence, Board Member
Technology-Facilitated Sexual Violence: Why Now, Why a Collective Response?
Aysel Ergün, UN Women Türkiye, Programme Analyst
Understanding Technology-Facilitated Gender Based Violence
Compendium: The Global Trends
Raphaëlle Rafin, UN Women, Policy Specialist, Ending Violence Against Women and Girls EVAW Section
Global Developments in Laws and Policies on Technology-Facilitated Violence against Women and Girls: Implementation Gains and Gaps
Ayesha Mago, Sexual Violence Research Initiative, Global Advocacy Director
What We Know and What We Still Need: The TFGBV Evidence Base, Promising Practices, and Remaining Gaps
Carolina Cal, Chayn, Survivor Services Facilitator
Tech that heals, not harms: the Bloom project
Q&A and Closing Remarks
Hazal Sipahi, Board member, Association for Struggle Against Sexual Violence
Hazal Sipahi, currently based in Sarajevo, completed her undergraduate studies in Journalism and a minor in American Culture and Literature at Bahçeşehir University. She earned her master’s degree in Cultural Policy and Management from the University of Arts in Belgrade. In 2020, she launched the podcast project Mental Klitoris. She worked for NewsLabTurkey’s Incubator for Independent Media project as project coordinator. She has provided podcast training to various organizations in Turkey. While working at T24 for four years, she produced and presented the podcast “Yayınlanması Kaydıyla”, and the YouTube programs “Ayrık Otu” and “Ekran Aşkına”. Since 2022, she has been producing short documentary videos for the +90 project of DW Türkçe. Sipahi, who creates and speaks on sex, sexuality, sexual health, sexual violence, gender, and pleasure, is also the vice president of the Association for Struggle Against Sexual Violence’s board.
Aysel Ergün, Programme Analyst, UN Women Türkiye
Aysel Ergün is a Programme Analyst at UN Women Türkiye, where she coordinates the Norway-funded project Reimagining Gender Equality Across Generations and Communities in Türkiye. She leads partnerships with civil society organizations to strengthen institutional capacities, promote young women’s participation and leadership, and advance gender equality through collaborative programming, knowledge products, and advocacy. With over 18 years of experience in the civil society sector, Aysel has specialized in women’s rights, human rights, organizational development, and capacity strengthening. Prior to joining UN Women, she worked as a consultant, trainer, and mentor, supporting civil society organizations in organizational development, strategic planning, and institutional capacity building.
Raphaëlle Rafin, Policy Specialist, Ending Violence Against Women and Girls
EVAW Section, UN Women
Ms. Raphaëlle Rafin is a Policy Specialist in the UN Women Ending Violence against Women section in New York. In this role, she notably provides support to intergovernmental process and policy developments and is responsible for substantially contributing to the area of violence against women programming, including on research and data, UN-system coordination and monitoring and evaluation. Raphaëlle provides technical and policy advice on generation of knowledge and evidence-based policy and programming at country, regional and global levels through strategy development, thematic reviews and capacity-building. Prior to that, Raphaëlle worked for the UN Women multi-country office for the Maghreb as the EVAW coordinator, as a justice and human rights officer for the French Embassy in Morocco and as a legal researcher on public international law and international human rights law cases before the United Nations Human Rights Council, the International Criminal Court and the European Court of Human Rights. Raphaëlle holds an LL.M in Public International Law from the University of Leiden and a master’s degree in International Relations from Sciences-po Lille.
Ayesha Mago, Global Advocacy Director, SVRI
Ayesha Mago is SVRI’s Global Advocacy Director and a feminist researcher, activist, and trainer with over two decades of experience. Her career has spanned women’s and adolescent rights, sexual and reproductive health, HIV, and access to justice across South, Southeast Asia, and Southern Africa. At SVRI, she leads the work on technology-facilitated gender-based violence and drives change towards more equitable and sustainable partnerships, funding, and policy in the field working at the intersection of evidence, advocacy, and practice to shift not just what the field knows, but how it is resourced and who holds power within it.
Carolina Cal is the Survivor Services Facilitator at Chayn, with experience in community engagement and facilitating healing spaces. Her work focuses on engaging women in conversations around migration, identity, belonging, gender-based violence, and collective care. Outside of Chayn, she runs Migrants in Action, an organisation using the arts to co-create social change with women from the Global Majority.
The Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI) is the largest global network advancing research on violence against women (VAW), violence against children (VAC), and other forms of gender-based violence (GBV), especially in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). SVRI funds cutting-edge research, strengthens capacity, and promotes the use of evidence to improve practice and policy.
Chayn is a global nonprofit making healing accessible for all survivors of gender-based violence. By reimagining technology, they create online resources that are trauma-informed, multilingual, and feminist, supporting survivors to heal at their own pace, wherever they are.
