Sex, rights and the internet: Survey on internet regulation and sexual rights.
If you are an LGBT activist, SRHR activist, women’s right activist, a queer blogger or a feminist who spends a lot of time on the internet, please take 15 minutes to fill in our survey on sexuality and internet regulation in any of the following languages:
Take the survey:
| English | Spanish | French | Bahasa Indonesia |
| Portuguese | Russian | Hindi | Chinese (simplified) |
| Arabic |
This knowledge is important for us to explore strategic ways to support the digital security of sexual rights activists and also to advocate for gender & sexuality issues among internet rights activists. Results and findings from the 2013 survey can be found here.
We hope with this second round of our global monitoring survey to deepen our understanding and expose the connection between the regulation of sexual speech and content on the internet and provide evidence that will help sexual rights activists explain the impact of such regulation on their lives and their work. Ultimately this survey is part of the ongoing work of APC to identify and imagine a better, more people-centered, feminist internet.
An analysis of the findings aims to provide a snapshot for policy advocacy and engagement in internet governance and to strengthen the capacity of advocates for sexual rights, women’s rights and gender equality to resist internet content regulation and to participate in this process.
How You Can Help:
- Please forward this survey to your organizations and networks of sexual rights activists and ask them to take it.
- Post it on your blogs or organization websites.
- Tweet or Facebook this post using #eroticsproject.
Please note that the deadline to fill in the survey is September 12, 2014.
For more information, please contact: Caroline Tagny (caroline@apcwomen.org) or Nadine Moawad (nadine@apcwomen.org).
This survey has been developped in collaboration of Horacio F. Sívori and Bruno Zilli, researchers at Centro Latino-Americano em Sexualidade e Direitos Humanos (CLAM).
Further Reading:
- The first phase of the EROTICS research which looked at the context of sexual expression and activism online in 5 countries.
- Infographic on some key findings from 2013 Global Monitoring Survey.
- Some background on the EROTICS project.
