In this insightful episode, 3rd generation WAVE Youth Ambassadors Ilvana Dedja (Albania) and Lena Östlund (France/Sweden) discuss cyber violence against women and girls as a deepening challenge to gender equality and democracy with Dr. Eleonora Esposito, a Seconded National Expert at the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE). Together, they look into the following: lack of data & clear definitions; various forms of online violence such as harassment, stalking & Doxing; intersectionality, as well as policy and recommendations.

Dr. Eleonora Esposito is a Seconded National Expert at the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) and a Researcher at the Institute for Culture and Society (ICS) of the University of Navarra (Spain).  A Marie Skłodowska-Curie Alumna (2019-2021), Dr. Esposito has been investigating cyber violence against women in politics as a deepening challenge to gender equality and democracy. At EIGE, she is a Researcher in the Gender-based Violence Unit and the Project Manager of “Cyber violence against women and girls in the EU 27”. This multi-annual project is aimed at conceptually mapping and statistically defining gender-based cyber violence in its different forms, while improving statistical data collection and EU policy effectiveness against it.