"cyber violence" is a correct and usable term in written English.
It refers to any form of abuse or attack that takes place online. For example, "Cyber violence is increasingly becoming a concerning issue as more and more people rely on technology for communication."
Nearly three quarters of women and girls have experienced some form of cyber violence, according to a report released by the UNBC released last month.
"Complacency and failure to address and solve cyber violence could significantly impede the uptake of broadband services by girls and women worldwide," said Houlin Zhao, the co-Vice Chair of the Broadband Commission.
Vicious and defamatory messages appeared on the internet and her university website was bombarded with hate mail.Such cases of "cyber violence" are reaching alarming proportions in South Korea, prompting a shift in public attitudes towards the exercise of unbridled free speech on the web.
This is also called gender-based cyber violence.
As a regular practice, service providers can also integrate questions on ICT risks and cyber violence in GBV risk assessments.
Three out of four women and girls online have suffered cyber violence, according to the UN Broadband Commission Report "Cyber Violence Against Women and Girls".
According to a 2015 UN report, 18% of women in the EU have experienced a form of cyber-violence – a definition covering hacking, harassment, surveillance and revenge porn – since they were 15, which is equivalent to 32 million women.
In wanting to establish this sort of cyber-violence as unacceptable, we must not collapse the despicable into the illegal.
The 20 cyber-violence experts from Asia, the Pacific, Europe and North and South America reviewed the latest knowledge on forms of violence against children in cyberspace, its impacts on children and effective measures to combat and prevent it.
Cyber-violence (unless make-believe, such as shooting orbs of water out of your hands) is not acceptable either.
