Technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TFGBV) is a relatively recent phenomenon that was almost unimaginable thirty years ago. As information and communication technologies became more and more prevalent in our daily lives, to the extent that it is now difficult to imagine the most ordinary day without the Internet, laptop, smartphone or social networks, gender-based violence that is carried out in the digital space became more and more. more often.

Data indicate that a large number of women around the world have experienced some form of gender-based violence perpetrated through technology, and that girls, women and young women are particularly vulnerable.

Global research shows that 58% of women have experienced some form of gender-based violence in the digital environment, and that almost half (47%) have encountered threats of physical and sexual violence.

However, although gender-based violence perpetrated through technology is increasingly common, there is no common agreement regarding its definition, as well as the definition of its manifestations.

The glossary in front of you was created on the basis of the publication "Gender-based violence through technology - making every space safe", which was published by the United Nations Population Fund in December 2021, with an effort to define all terms in accordance with the local context in our region and supported by examples that are familiar and close to us.

The emerging forms of violence are grouped into four large groups, in order to make it easier for readers to find their way around. This division is neither final nor immutable, as different forms of technology-mediated violence often intertwine and precede each other. Each form is described, defined and illustrated with an example from real life, in order to recognize it, but also to point out the real danger that gender-based violence through technology represents for the lives of everyone, especially girls and women, as well as gender-variant people.