Country Reports Snapshots Projects Gender Mainstreaming In December 2023, MISA Zimbabwe held a workshop in Harare as part of the 16 Days of Activism to highlight and lobby for the implementation of the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights (ACHPR) Resolution 522 on the Protection of Women Against Digital Violence in Africa. Resolution 522 highlights that “digital violence is increasingly gendered and disproportionately affects women, through inter alia, threats of sexual violence, misogynistic disinformation campaigns and ‘revenge pornography…’” Stakeholders were drawn from the Ministry of Women’s Affairs, Community, Small and Medium Enterprises Development, Zimbabwe Media Commission, Gender and Media Connect, Zimbabwe Gender Commission, Zimbabwe Republic Police, Zimbabwe Union of Journalists, and Voluntary Media Council of Zimbabwe and 48 journalists from various media houses from across the country. The Resolution encourages member states to undertake measures to safeguard women journalists from digital violence, including gender-sensitive media literacy and digital security training. It also calls on member states to facilitate cooperation between law enforcement and service providers to identify perpetrators and gather evidence for online harms. Zimbabwe’s Cyber and Data Protection Act has provisions that deal with cyberbullying and harassment. Such provisions are progressive in terms of women’s rights online. Several women, particularly female journalists and female politicians in www.misa.org