Conclusion

Using "violence against women" (VAW) as a concept enables to identify how acts of violence are linked to patterns in the discriminatory treatment of women in a variety of domains. This chapter discusses the threat of VAW on the Internet. The problems of Internet trolling designed to silence women's voices know no national boundaries, so the challenge of combating VAW is shared by societies of the most diverse cultural and religious heritages. In Pakistan, where women suffer from high levels of sexual and domestic violence, women have had to deal with online trolling. The United Nations did not squarely address VAW until 1993, when it produced the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women. With a spreading appreciation that VAW is criminal, movements condemning "marry the rapist" laws have been proliferating. Countries such as Egypt, Morocco, and Tunisia have decided to cancel the local versions of these laws.