The Arab Parliament calls for addressing digital violence against women
The Arab Parliament stressed the necessity of uniting parliamentary efforts to address digital violence against women, especially in light of the scale of the challenges facing Arab women, which are worsening day after day, wars and armed conflicts, especially the continuing crimes against Palestinian women by the forces of the hateful occupation entity, and the harsh conditions that Yemeni and Sudanese women suffer as a result of the existing crises, and the resulting increase in cases of asylum, displacement and poverty.
This came in The speech of the Arab Parliament delivered by Dr. Mai Kayla, a member of the Arab Parliament, during her participation in the session on digital violence against women and mechanisms for confronting it, under the title “The Role of Parliamentarians in Addressing Digital Violence,” which was organized by the Coalition of Women Parliamentarians from Arab Countries to Combat Violence against Women, which was held in the Jordanian capital, Amman.
Kayla indicated: She pointed out that the Arab Parliament gives great priority to supporting and empowering Arab women as they are an integral pillar of the state of law, pointing to the joint Arab parliamentary efforts and initiatives that the Arab Parliament has worked on, which directly focus on combating digital violence against women and providing a safety network and supportive legislative protection for them, including the preparation of the guiding law to combat electronic blackmail and the Arab Document on the Rights of Women, which was presented to the Council of the League of Arab States at the summit level in March 2017, and then launched at a special conference held in the United Arab Emirates in cooperation between the Parliament and the National Council. Federal law in October 2019, as well as an Arab guideline law to combat domestic violence, to include direct violence or committed through digital and electronic means, to address this type of violence that reflects negatively on women when they carry out their role as mothers, wives, and educators, and on their effective contribution to the development process in its various fields, in addition to the parliamentary document for Arab women that was launched in January 2024, and included many important provisions to combat violence against women, with an emphasis on imposing severe penalties for cybercrimes committed. Against women, by developing policies and laws and supporting their digital and technological empowerment.
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