Facebook Campaign

NCWNZ is part of an international campaign calling for Facebook to immediately remove pages which promote sexual and other violence against women.

 

The campaign is a response to Facebook’s decision to allow pages which promote violence against women. Current live pages include: “We’re gonna have sex tonight. Why? Because I’m stronger than you are,” “Punching your girlfriend in the ovaries so you don’t have to wear a condom,” and “It’s not rape, it’s surprise sex.”

 

Facebook allows these pages to remain online despite their violation of the site’s Terms of Service which clearly prohibit users from posting material which is hateful, threatening, incites violence or contains gratuitous violence. There are also rules against bullying, intimidating or harassing other users, and using Facebook to do anything discriminatory.

 

More than 2600 men and women have signed the NCWNZ petition, recently launched in association with the White Ribbon Campaign.

 

Please support the campaign adding your name and letting your networks and contacts know about it. Just follow the link on the right hand side of this page - it's quick and easy, and all you need is a valid email address.

 

*Update

 

While Facebook's decision to take down several pages promoting rape and violence against women is good news, we are not letting up in our campaign to ensure that similar pages are taken doen and new pages prevented from springing up.

 

National President Elizabeth Bang said, "As an organisation working to improve the status of women and build a society in which women are safe, NCWNZ believes that Facebook is marginalising women and rape survivors by failing to come out against this type of content.

 

"It is not enough for Facebook to simply pay lip service to its stated mission to be a safe community where people can communicate and share ideas. It's time the company put some action behind its words."

 

NCWNZ is calling on Facebook to meet the following demands:

 

1. State publicly that rape is never acceptable; remove content that advocates violence against women, and update the terms to specify this.

 

2. State publicly that is does not consider violence against women to be a joke, and that such content will be held to the same standard as any violence against any other group or individual.

 

3. Be transparent about the content monitoring process by stating publicly how many pages that promote violence against women are removed; and establish relationships with experts in sexual violence and violence against women who will help identify content that needs to be removed.

3. Be transparent about the content monitoring process by stating publicly how many pages that promote violence against women are removed; and establish relationships with experts in sexual violence and violence against women who will help identify content that needs to be removed.

4. Update its terms of service to specify that content promoting violence against women or sexual violence violates Facebook's terms of use and will be removed whenever reported.