Across the globe, Women Human Rights Defenders organise for justice & equality.
#WHRDs face intense attacks — disinformation, surveillance, stalking — but continue the work in a remarkable display of hope & care.
So even as we say #NoTechForWar, we continue to #TakeBackTechJoy!
ALT On a dark purple background are surveillance icons and "16 Days of Activism" is on the top left corner. The central image is of diverse women holding glowing tech devices, surrounded by flowers. Text in the middle: Networking resistance #NoTechForWar
ALT Black background with text "Sex work is work." running across the top and bottom. Main text: Sex work is... a human rights issue. a labour rights issue. a public health issue. a criminal justice issue.
There is a red umbrella on the bottom right corner and the Take Back The Tech logo on the bottom left corner.
A.I. dehumanises human beings. #war
In militarised contexts, #AI identifies, tracks, and eliminates "targets" within seconds.
Life-and-death decisions are made via systems that do not understand context, history or humanity ⬇️ @globalvoices@GenderITorgglobalvoices.org/2026/04/22/…
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It is 2026, and AI companies still do not have profitable business models or meaningful proposals on how to use their products.
Yet we keep being sold the "magical" vision of overfunded A.I. models. ⬇️
globalvoices.org/2026/04/16/…
ALT Hands coming out of screens towards a group of humans talking to each other
India’s current AI governance framework encompasses soft guidelines, an unenacted ethics bill & data protection rules — creating a system where AI can be deployed first/questioned later.
“Responsible AI” without accountability is merely an aspiration. ⬇️
globalvoices.org/2026/04/24/…
Human-centred AI should embed humanity as the foundation upon which systems are designed, built, used and governed.
By grounding AI in human rights, we can ensure that it mirrors our highest values (and not our oldest biases) @GenderITorg@globalvoicesglobalvoices.org/2026/04/29/…
In Brazil, a local civil society network launched the first open source AI model in Portuguese to detect anti-LGBTQ+ hate speech. 🏳️🌈
A.I. use generates more questions than answers — but that may not be a bad thing. ⬇️ @globalvoices@GenderITorgglobalvoices.org/2026/05/05/…
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What does it mean to centre the human in a A.I. world, when "the human" itself (as a category) has historically been structured by white supremacy, patriarchy, ableism and cis-heteronormativity?
Xonorika Kira writes ⬇️ @globalvoices@GenderITorgglobalvoices.org/2026/04/16/…
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As part of ‘Tech and Society Discussion Series-2’,jointly organized by Body & Data & Martin Chautari, we had a roundtable discussion on the topic “Dissecting AI Data Centers: The Environmnetal and Human Cost of Intelligence Infrastructures”led by our team members Nuva and Monisha
ALT Event poster titled 'Dissecting AI Data Centres: The Environmental and Human Cost of Intelligence Infrastructures, Tech and Society Discussion Series-2,' jointly organised by Body & Data and Martin Chautari. Below the title, two people sit at a table with laptops covered in stickers, speaking into a microphone during the discussion, with a screen behind them showing a data centre image
As technology takes new forms, so does violence.
Deepfakes, AI-generated abuse and fabricated content are increasingly being used to target women, girls, and marginalized communities.
@Politics4Her , @HerInternet , and Body & Data are conducting a survey to understand these
ALT A beige poster by Politics4Her, Her Internet, and Body & Data introducing the campaign against synthetic forms of violence in Asia and Africa.
At the center is a Venn diagram with two overlapping circles. The yellow circle represents violence and contains the Nepali word “हिंसा” with the English word “violence.” The red-orange circle represents artificial intelligence and contains the Nepali word “बौद्धिकता” and the English word “intelligence.” The overlapping section contains the Nepali word “कृत्रिम” with the English words “artificial” and “synthetic.”
Text at the bottom reads in Nepali:
“प्रविधिले नयाँ रूप लिँदै गर्दा हिंसाले पनि नयाँ रूप लिँदै गरेको छ”
English text:
“As technology takes new forms, so does violence.”
ALT On a black background, text: The digital divide is a political divide. Because in an emergency, it matters if you can...
Receive accurate information when fires force communities to evacuate.
Send a message to loved ones in times of crisis.
Share details of affected persons on the ground when storms disintegrate already fragile infrastructure.
Access emergency services when floods cut through villages.
There is a visual element of a glitchy error message on the top right corner and the Take Back The Tech! logo on the bottom right corner.
The digital divide is a political divide.
Here's why: The ability to connect becomes a matter of survival in times of crises. It decides how you access emergency services, and the difference between being helped and being ignored ⬇️ #ClimateCrisisgenderit.org/feminist-talk/n…
ALT On a white background, there is the Take Back The Tech! Logo on the top right corner and an illustration of a typhoon with a house and tree on the bottom right side. Text: When Typhoon Haiyan made landfall in the Philippines in 2013, it tore through the country. It was the most powerful typhoon ever recorded to make landfall anywhere in the world. Cell towers collapsed alongside homes, and survivors walked for days just to send a single message to relatives: “Buhay pa kami” We are still alive.
"We're not trying to build the next big app. We're trying to keep our tools alive long enough for people to survive."
The right to repair is one of the most powerful ways we know how to resist — peek into #FeministRepairLabs around the world ⬇️
genderit.org/feminist-talk/f…
ALT On a black background, there is the Take Back The Tech! Logo on the bottom right corner and illustrations of code language running through the middle. Text: "When something breaks here, it hits hard. You might not [be able to] afford another one. You might not be able to charge it. You might not even know what went wrong." Nearly 600 million people in sub-Saharan Africa don't have steady electricity. In West Africa, heat kills battery life faster, humidity eats away at circuits, power surges fry routers and chargers, floods soak radios, phones, solar gear.
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Speculative fiction that begins with the death of an artisanal miner in a “sacrifice zone” and dives into loss, misinformation, and the erasure of working-class lives — while diving into “narrative repair” that remediates mass media ⬇️
genderit.org/feminist-talk/m…
ALT On a wall is text “The media is complicit in everything” and another poster that says “Stilfontein is now. Stop the sacrifice” with a few words below scratched/blurred out. There is a figure in the middle.