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Amnesty lens on abusive tweets against 100 women LS candidates -Priscilla Jebaraj

-The Hindu

‘It’s not just trolling, it’s an abuse of human rights’

New Delhi:
Launching a crowd-sourced study on the abuse that Indian women politicians face on Twitter, Amnesty India says online trolling aimed at threatening and silencing them must be considered a human rights violation.

“It’s so easy for men to dismiss it as just ‘trolling’, but we are talking about rape threats, death threats, stalking…words which can lead to deep physical and emotional harm. These are threats of criminal activity, and they are aimed at silencing or pushing out women,” said Nazia Erum, media and advocacy manager at Amnesty India. “We hope this study will highlight the seriousness of the issue… These are an abuse of women’s rights, of human rights.”

Amnesty India is recruiting 2,000 digital volunteers — for Troll Patrol India — to analyse abusive tweets sent to 100 women candidates in the ongoing Lok Sabha election, during, before and after polling.

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