Digital Sex Crimes: Tech and Gender Inequity Intersect

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Join Heather Barr from Human Rights Watch to discuss the soon to be published report on digital sex crimes. In 2008, less than 4 percent of sex crimes prosecutions in South Korea involved illegal filming. By 2017 the number of these cases per year had increased eleven-fold, from 585 cases to 6,615, and they now constituted 20 percent of sex crimes prosecutions. A detective working on sex crimes told Human Rights Watch in 2019 that she estimated that about 30 percent of sex crimes now contain a tech-related aspect, and that tech elements are increasingly present across different types of cases

Heather Barr

Interim co-director of the Women's Rights Division at Human Rights Watch.

Heather Barr is the interim co-director of the Women's Rights Division at Human Rights Watch. She has done research in countries including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Burma, Nepal, and Papua New Guinea, on issues including child marriage, girls’ education, violence against women, refugee and prisoners’ rights, and trafficking. She joined Human Rights Watch in 2011 as the Afghanistan researcher, after working for the United Nations in Afghanistan and Burundi. After law school she litigated for discharge planning for prisoners with psychosocial disabilities in New York City, and founded an alternative-to-incarceration program. Before law school, she worked with homeless women. She is a graduate of London School of Economics, Columbia Law School, and John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

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AI Investment Manager at Copenhagen Capacity (she/her)

Marilag Dimatulac & Michelle Tabirao

Founders - ULAP.org (she/her)

Marilag is a tech community leader who aims to bridge the skill gap through youth empowerment. She believes that we must keep extending the opportunities for succeeding in a tech-driven society, by creating learning channels that are not only accessible but also collaborative and inclusive. As an organizer of Azure User Group Manila and Copenhagen, and as an international tech conference speaker, she acknowledges the power in equal distribution of knowledge across borders, cultures & individuals. Her deep technical knowledge in Cloud and Software Engineering, combined with her relentless passion for mentorship and effective team dynamics, drive her to tackle the tech upskilling challenge, through advocacy and community building. Marilag is a cloud architect and the co-owner of Dewise, an enterprise development company from Denmark and The Philippines. Michelle is a digital literacy and youth upskilling advocate. She sees the inter-relationship between technology, advocacy and policy as useful components in addressing complex issues in education, and how the holistic view of these components can foster innovation and creativity. In her early career, she worked in an organization that advocates the use of open source technologies and travelled all over the Philippines to upskill the youth by organizing open-source programs. She studied BSc. in Computer Engineering and MSc. focusing on Tech and Management in Austria and Denmark as an EU Erasmus Scholar. Michelle is currently working in the product management space that develops Internet of Things (IoT) and data solution in an enterprise in Denmark.

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