Facebook Rolls Out Women’s Safety Hub

The Women’s Safety Hub acts as a centralized location for all of the safety resources women need while navigating Facebook’s platform, including specific resources for abuse survivors, journalists and women leaders.

Content includes video-on-demand safety training and the ability to register for live safety training in multiple languages.

It was developed in consultation with nonprofit partners globally, and it will soon be available in 55 languages.

Facebook’s Global Women’s Safety Expert Advisors is made up of 12 academic experts, activists and nonprofit leaders that will help the social network develop new policies, products and programs to better support women on its family of applications. They are:

• Australia: Asher Flynn, associate professor of criminology at Monash University and vice president of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology.
• Brazil: Enrica Duncan, project director and deputy director of Nossas, a women-led laboratory for civic engagement and activism in Latin America that develops technology to equip citizens to impact policy making.
• Global: Kalliopi Mingeirou, chief of the Ending Violence Against Women and Girls Section at UN Women.
• Hong Kong: Lisa Moore, who oversees the Women’s Foundation’s research on gender issues and leads advocacy efforts that aim to transform existing attitudes that prevent women and girls from fully participating in society.
• Indonesia: Tunggal Pawestri, an independent expert on gender equality, sexual rights and diversity issues.
• Ireland: Caitriona Gleeson, who spent two decades working to end gender-based violence and now leads Women for Election, a nonpartisan nonprofit that encourages and supports women in Ireland to run for politics.
• Mexico: Margarita Guillé Tamayo, a social activist, founder and executive coordinator of the Interamerican Network of Women Shelters.
• Morocco: Stephanie Willman Bordat, a human rights lawyer, nongovernmental organization activist and founding partner at MRA Mobilising for Rights Associates.
• Philippines: Mariane Dorothy Rosario, a global advocacy champion for the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts and a Girls Get Equal advocate for Plan International.
• South Korea: Ji-Yeon Lee, associate professor, counseling psychology at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies.
• Uganda: Neema Iyer, founder and director of Pollicy, a civic technology organization.
• U.S.: Erica Olsen, who leads the TechSafety.org project at the National Network to End Domestic Violence and is an international expert on the intersection of technology and gender-based violence.

Facebook head of women’s safety Cindy Southworth wrote in a Newsroom post Wednesday, “The UN Women’s Generation Equality Forum is happening this week in Paris, which brings together governments, companies, youth and civil society to move the needle forward on gender equality. At Facebook, we have always believed that women should have equal access to all of the economic opportunities, education and social connection that the internet provides. It’s why I joined Facebook as head of women’s safety after over two decades working for nonprofits dedicated to keeping women safe.”