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ANROWS says look to the evidence to eliminate tech-facilitated abuse, as 16 Days of Activism campaign gathers pace
MEDIA RELEASE | 28 NOVEMBER 2025
Research offers potential solutions to prevent, detect and discourage perpetration.
Ensuring policies and systems are evidence-based – including evidence from ANROWS’ groundbreaking research – will support efforts to combat tech-facilitated abuse, ANROWS said during the first week of the UN’s global 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence campaign. This year’s theme is ‘UNiTE to End Digital Violence against All Women and Girls’.
As Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety, ANROWS, has produced and translated significant research into technology-facilitated abuse, said CEO, Dr Tessa Boyd-Caine:
“ANROWS is committed to expanding the evidence base with the research needed to eliminate tech-facilitated abuse. Technology moves quickly and we need to move with it – especially so we can support young people’s safety. We need to provide policy makers, practitioners and sector stakeholders with the information they need to design effective policies and practices.”
Most recently, ANROWS research proved foundational in the development of eSafety’s new online safety advice. Released mid-May 2025, it is designed to assist organisations in identifying and combating workplace technology-facilitated abuse. ANROWS has also produced a fact sheet, summarising key findings and statistics drawn from the research.
The research included the first national study to investigate workplace technology-facilitated sexual harassment and revealed 1 in 7 Australian adults surveyed admitted to engaging in this form of sexual harassment at work. Showing its gendered nature, 24% of surveyed men admitting to using technology to engage in workplace sexual harassment, compared to 7% of women.
These insights – published in ANROWS’ Workplace technology-facilitated sexual harassment: Perpetration, responses and prevention – have since informed policy and practice across the country.
Key findings, drawing on the ANROWS-led National Community Attitudes towards Violence against Women Survey and interviews with victim-survivors and perpetrators, would form a strong tech-focused story to align with the 16 Days of Activism campaign. See the background briefings below.
ANROWS will be posting on LinkedIn and Instagram on every day of the campaign and we’ll be encouraging people to attend events in their local areas.
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Media contact:
Emmagness Ruzvidzo,
Media and Communications Manager, ANROWS
E: Emmagness.Ruzvidzo@anrows.org.au
M: 0468 322 800
About ANROWS
Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety (ANROWS) was established by the Commonwealth, state and territory governments under Australia’s first National Plan to Reduce Violence against Women and their Children (2010–2022). As an ongoing partner to the National Plan, ANROWS continues to build, strengthen and translate the evidence base that informs the current National Plan to End Violence against Women and Children (2022–2032).
With more than 150 research projects led, commissioned or contributed to, ANROWS delivers targeted evidence to inform practice, policy, and systems reform. We engage closely with victim-survivors, communities, service providers, governments and researchers to ensure our work reflects lived experience and supports collective action.
ANROWS is a not-for-profit company jointly funded by the Commonwealth and all state and territory governments. We are a registered harm prevention charity and deductible gift recipient, governed by the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC).