# Introduction and learning objectives

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### <span class="mw-headline" id="bkmrk-introduction-0">Introduction</span>

This module is about guiding participants through the issues relating to online gender-based violence – its root causes, how violence plays out on the internet, the continuum of violence that women, women-identified and queer identities experience online and offline, and its impact.

This module is based largely on the more than a decade of work that the APC Women´s Rights Programme (WRP) has done through the [Take Back the Tech!](https://www.takebackthetech.net/) campaign, the [End violence: Women's rights and safety online project](https://www.apc.org/en/node/15007/), [MDG3: Take Back the Tech! to end violence against women project](https://www.apc.org/en/node/7892/), and [EROTICS (Exploratory Research on Sexuality and the Internet)](https://erotics.apc.org/).

### <span class="mw-headline" id="bkmrk-learning-objectives-0">Learning objectives</span>

By the end of this module, the participants will have:

- An understanding of the forms of online gender-based violence (online GBV) and its impacts on the survivors and their communities.
- An understanding of the continuum of violence between the offline and the online spheres, and the power structures that allow it.
- Ideas, strategies and actions about the ways in which online GBV, especially in their contexts, can be addressed.

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