Table Of Contents
Glossary 3
Mandate of the Committee 5
Agenda 6
Background of the issue 6
Key issues in the agenda 7
Delegates’ preparation questions 8
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Glossary
1. Digital Rights:
Human rights as they apply in the digital sphere, including privacy,
expression, and access to information.
2. Cyberstalking:
Persistent online harassment or monitoring that causes fear, distress, or harm.
3. Doxxing:
Publishing or revealing someone’s private or identifying information online
without consent.
4. Exploitation:
Taking advantage of individuals for personal or systemic gain, often through
abuse of power or vulnerability.
5. Gender-Based Violence:
Harmful acts directed at an individual based on their gender, including
physical, sexual, psychological, or digital forms of violence.
6. Non-Consensual Intimate Imagery:
Sharing or distributing intimate images or videos of a person without their
consent.
7. Algorithmic Bias:
Systematic and unfair discrimination that results from flawed data or design in
algorithms.
8. Automated Decision-Making:
Use of algorithms to make decisions without human involvement.
9. Biometric Data:
Personal data related to an individual’s physical or behavioral characteristics,
such as fingerprints or facial scans.
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10.Deepfakes:
AI-generated synthetic media that manipulates or fabricates images, audio, or
video.
11.Digital Literacy:
Skills and knowledge needed to use digital technologies effectively and safely.
12.Machine Learning Bias:
Unintended discrimination that arises when machine learning models learn
patterns from biased data.
13.Accountability Mechanisms:
Processes ensuring that institutions or individuals are responsible for their
actions and comply with laws and standards.
14.Regulatory Frameworks:
Systems of rules, standards, and oversight that guide behavior and practices
within a sector.
15.Bot Networks:
Automated accounts coordinated to spread misinformation, amplify
harassment, or manipulate online discourse.
16.Coordinated Harassment Campaigns:
Organized efforts by groups or individuals to target someone with mass
harassment.
17.Victim Support Services:
Assistance provided to individuals affected by violence, abuse, or harm.
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Mandate of the Committee
The United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (UNCSW) in this MUN simulates
how governments discuss and shape global action on women’s rights and gender equality.
● To promote gender equality and women’s empowerment:
Delegates will focus on advancing women’s rights in political, economic, social, and
cultural life, and reducing discrimination.
● To review progress on international commitments:
The committee will examine how states are implementing agreements such as the
Beijing Platform for Action and other UN gender-equality commitments.
● To address priority themes related to women:
Delegates will debate an annual priority theme, in this case AI‑enabled gender-based
exploitation and digital protections for women, and consider its impacts worldwide.
● To draft and negotiate international recommendations:
The committee will develop resolutions and agreed recommendations that propose
concrete steps for states, UN bodies, and other actors to improve the status of women.
● To mainstream a gender perspective in UN work:
Delegates will learn how gender equality should be integrated into all areas of policy,
ensuring women’s perspectives are considered in global decision‑making.
● To encourage inclusive and cooperative diplomacy:
The committee promotes respectful dialogue, consensus‑building, and
coalition‑making, reflecting how real UN negotiations work to advance women’s
rights.
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Agenda
“Deliberation on measures to prevent AI-enabled gender-based exploitation and to strengthen
protections for women in digital environments”
Background of the issue
With the rapid growth of artificial
intelligence and digital platforms,
women and girls face new forms of
abuse such as deepfake
pornography, non‑consensual image
sharing, online stalking, and
algorithmic discrimination. These
harms can violate privacy, damage
reputations, silence women’s voices, and reinforce existing gender inequalities. Governments,
tech companies, and international bodies like the UNCSW are now working to create
standards, laws, and safeguards that ensure AI technologies and online spaces are safe, fair,
and respectful for women and marginalized groups.
With the rapid deployment of generative AI, women and girls are experiencing a marked
escalation in technology-facilitated gender-based harms — from highly realistic sexual
deepfakes and automated non-consensual intimate image
distribution to AI-enabled stalking, targeted disinformation, and
discriminatory automated decision-making that compounds
economic and social exclusion. These harms are not only digital:
UN research shows online abuse increasingly translates into
offline violence (including threats, stalking and physical attacks),
silences women in public life, and disproportionately targets
women in journalism, activism and other visible roles —
reinforcing existing inequalities in access to safety, privacy and
justice.
The United Nations and its agencies have begun mapping these
risks and urging urgent, rights-centred responses: UN Women, OHCHR and related UN
mandates call for safety-by-design, stronger accountability for platforms and developers,
improved legal remedies, and gender-sensitive data-governance and redress mechanisms to
protect survivors. International policy bodies — including the Commission on the Status of
Women and Human Rights Council processes — are actively developing standards and
recommendations that foreground human rights, gender equality and corporate responsibility
for AI systems, while recent joint UN declarations stress the need for transparency, remedy
and multi-stakeholder regulation to prevent AI-enabled gender-based exploitation.
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Key issues in the agenda
AI‑enabled gender‑based violence
● How are AI tools (like deepfakes, chatbots, and recommendation systems) being
misused to harass, exploit, or target women online and offline?
Privacy, consent, and data protection
● How should women’s images, biometric data, and personal information be protected
from misuse, surveillance, and unauthorized sharing?
Role and responsibility of technology companies
● What duties should social media platforms, AI developers, and online services have to
detect, prevent, and respond to gender‑based abuse?
Legal and policy gaps
● Do existing national laws and international human‑rights standards adequately address
AI‑related gender harms, or are new rules needed?
Digital inclusion and discrimination
● How can biases in algorithms, datasets, and digital systems be reduced so that women
are treated fairly and have equal access to opportunities?
Support, accountability, and access to justice
● What mechanisms are needed to help victims report abuse, get content removed, seek
justice, and hold perpetrators and platforms accountable?
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Delegates’ preparation questions
● In what ways can AI be used to create or spread gender‑based exploitation (for
example, deepfakes or automated harassment)?
● What protections should exist to ensure women’s consent and privacy when their data
or images are collected, stored, or used by AI systems?
● How can states and tech companies work together to detect harmful content quickly
and prevent its spread, while respecting freedom of expression?
● Which human‑rights principles (such as dignity, non‑discrimination, and equality) are
most relevant to this agenda, and how should they guide policy?
● What kinds of laws, regulations, or platform policies would you recommend to better
protect women in digital spaces?
● How can awareness‑raising, digital literacy, and empowerment programs help women
recognize risks, stay safe online, and participate confidently in digital life?
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