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New Efforts Against Online Gender-Based Attacks

In today’s highly digital world, connected by the internet, social media, and messaging applications, it is important that women are trained to identify and prevent online gender-based violence (GBV). Globally, roughly 85% of women have reported witnessing online violence against women.

Securing the Future: Innovation and Economic Security at CFIS 2024

The 2024 Forum on Investment Screening and Economic Security (CFIS 2024) in Paris marked a pivotal moment in the global conversation on economic security, bringing together top officials, industry leaders,...

El impacto de la violencia basada en género en entornos digitales en Colombia

En un mundo altamente digitalizado, conectado por internet, las redes sociales y las aplicaciones de chat, es importante que las mujeres estén informadas y capacitadas para identificar violencias basadas en género (VBG) en línea y para prevenir y protegerse frente a estos actos. Aproximadamente 85% de mujeres han observado VBG digital. Para abordar este tema, el Centro Internacional para la Empresa Privada (CIPE) y su aliado local el Observatorio para la Equidad de las Mujeres (OEM), en Colombia, están trabajando para identificar barreras relacionadas con la participación de las mujeres en la política y los negocios, enfocándose en temas de VBG en el ámbito digital.

Advancing Digital Inclusion for Persons With Disabilities Across Africa

Persons with disabilities face significant barriers to meaningful online engagement, including inaccessible tools and platforms, costly assistive technologies, and low levels of digital literacy. As part of its work to...

New Efforts to Counter Sanctions Evasion Schemes

CIPE's work to support democratic resilience and economic security includes educating business communities on practices that put them at risk. Newer efforts involve raising private sector awareness about growing schemes to circumvent the international sanctions put in place following Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.