Gender Justice & Responsible Tech
Emerging technologies are transforming how international crimes are investigated, how advocacy is conducted, and how harm is experienced.
From artificial intelligence (AI) and digital evidence to reproductive technologies and online violence, these developments create both opportunities and risks for gender justice.
Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice works to ensure that technological change strengthens accountability, respects human rights, and remains grounded in survivor-informed and intersectional approaches.
Why this matters
While technology can support documentation, access to information, and collective action, it can also facilitate new forms of harm, including technology-facilitated gender-based violence, surveillance, discrimination, and reproductive control. Gender justice requires that these impacts are understood, mitigated, and addressed.
Technologies such as AI-assisted analysis, digital evidence collection, and online investigations are already influencing international criminal proceedings. Their rapidly increasing use also raises complex legal and ethical questions, requiring a careful, rights-based, and non-discriminatory approach to their development and use.
Embedding gender-responsive and rights-based approaches into technological development and use is essential for long-term systemic change. This includes shaping institutional practices, building digital literacy, and influencing policy debates so that technology serves accountability, equality, and justice rather than exacerbating harm.
What We Do on Gender Justice & Responsilbe Tech
Legal Research & Analysis
We conduct and support research on the gendered implications of emerging technologies, including on the use of digital tools in the investigation of gender-based crimes.
Expert Roundtable: Using Technology to Improve Investigations of Sexual and Gender-based Crimes
Advocacy & campaigns
We engage in advocacy to promote responsible, ethical, and survivor-informed uses of technology in international justice and human rights work. This includes training partners and colleagues on the responsible use of artificial intelligence for advocacy and accountability.
ASP Side Event | Using Technology to Improve Investigations of Sexual and Gender-Based Crimes
Solidarity & Network-Building
We convene practitioners, researchers, technologists, and civil society actors to exchange expertise and build shared standards. Our work includes expert roundtables on technology and investigations, the production of multilingual digital and AI skills resources, and collaboration on emerging issues such as technology-facilitated gender-based violence.
Impact
Through research, training, and convening, Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice contributes to stronger gender-responsive practices in the use of technology for accountability and advocacy. Our work supports practitioners across regions, informs policy discussions, and helps ensure that technological change advances, rather than undermines, gender justice and international criminal law.
