Consent Absent?
Channel: Institute of Development Studies
Date: 27/01/2017

In January 2017 a group of students gathered for a four-day workshop hosted by the Institute of Development Studies and the University of Sussex.  Working in teams, and with the support of experts, they created ideas for new interventions to digitally-mediated gender-based and sexual violence.  #sexrightspleasure

Consent absent? is a practical and sustainable project to empower and support survivors of digital, verbal and physical sexual abuse, and their allies. The project builds on an existing University of Sussex mobile app which has already been downloaded by 10,000 students of the university. The app extension aims to empower, advise and guide, as well as increase access to existing reporting tools for sexual abuse. Survivors and their allies will have the opportunity to share their experiences, reducing the isolation and shame that, according to a recent Students’ Union survey, they frequently experience. After launch, this concept can be taken up by universities in the UK as well as some regions abroad, given the prevalence of mobile phone ownership. 

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