The digital age promised connection, empowerment, and equal opportunity. Yet for millions of women and girls around the world, it has instead become a terrain of relentless abuse. According to new analysis highlighted by UN Women, technology-facilitated violence against women and girls (TF-VWG) is spreading faster than laws and protections can keep up, fueled by artificial intelligence (AI), anonymity, weak regulation, and the absence of cross-border accountability.

This escalating crisis affects every corner of the online world: social media, messaging apps, online gaming, professional platforms, digital marketplaces, and even AI-generated deepfake websites. No platform, no country, and no age group is immune.

A Crisis in Numbers: Billions of Women Left Without Legal Protection

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