Engaging Men, Ending Violence: Pathways to Safer Digital Futures

Male-driven, technology-facilitated violence against women and girls (TF VAWG) is an urgent and growing global challenge, reshaping how violence manifests across digital and physical spaces. Online environments – ranging from mainstream social media platforms to fringe forums – can amplify misogynistic content, enable harassment, and normalize abuse.

This report addresses a critical gap in the global TF VAWG discourse: a deeper and more nuanced look at perpetration of TF VAWG, aimed at understanding why men encounter harmful narratives of masculinity in digital spaces and how these dynamics fuel the perpetration of online and offline violence against women and girls. Using a masculinities lens reveals that men are the primary perpetrators of TF VAWG as well as participants in a broader social ecosystem where masculine identity formation, economic pressures, and digital culture intersect. The report also provides “best practice examples” of organizations doing work to prevent TF VAWG.

This report was funded by the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women).

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