DeStalk

Detect and stop stalkerware and cyberviolence against women

Gender-based violence and online abuse are strongly linked in Europe. A notable 70% of cyberstalked women are survivors of partner violence, with 71% of domestic abusers monitoring women’s computer activities and 54% tracking survivors' cell phones using stalking software. Cyber abuse and stalkerware represent concealed forms of gender-based violence, including sexual harassment, misogynistic bullying, cyberstalking, revenge porn, and surreptitious stalkerware installations on phones.

Learn more about the DeStalk e-learning course

Our work

Create a user-friendly online learning platform and provided training to professionals in the intimate partner violence (IPV) sector, as well as public authorities and government officials
Improve tools and skills for professionals in perpetrator programmes and victim support services
Enable non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and services to enhance their response to cyber violence
Conduct a campaign in specific Italian regions and developed guidelines to replicate it in other contexts

Results

The DeStalk project empowered European local governments to act against digital gender-based violence and provided innovative tools for effective campaigns on the topic. It also raised awareness on tech-facilitated abuse and called on strategic actors, such as perpetrator programmes and victim support services, to address these new forms of violence.

DeStalk E-Learning Course

DeStalk toolkit for practitioners working with perpetrators

DeStalk toolkit for provider working with victims/survivors

DeStalk Campaign

Awareness raising materials

Online Event: Tackling the digital dimension of violence against women

Report on the adaptation of toolkit to address GBV to include cyberviolence and stalkerware

Additional resources

IMPACT Outcome Monitoring Toolkit

ASAP operational protocol (EN)
Bulgaria | Croatia | Italy

Newsfeed

Launch of Project May 2022
EN | BG | EL | IT | DE

Partners

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Dimitra Mintsidis

Project & Development Manager, WWP EN

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