Empowering Justice through AI: Addressing Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence with Advanced Solutions

Author: Tooba Nazakat, Faiza Eiman Malik 

Abstract

This paper scrabble around multipart issues of Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based violence (TFGBV) by scrutinizing the overlap between Artificial Intelligence (AI) and legal strategies sighted at diminishing widespread obstacles. Examine the legal structure focused on the effectuality of operating laws engaging in the Technology facilitated Gender Based violence, suggesting improvements and new policies to make invulnerable shield for victims. This paper center on the technological advancements, on the dual role of Artificial Intelligence both as the contrivance exploit to encourage TFGBV and also as a strong collaborator in hinder it, that could aid law enforcement in dispatching justice. Challenges look on to law enforcement and judiciary in taking up TFGBV are underlined, initiating methods to impel response and appropriate justice, stressing the necessity for specialized training and resources. Acknowledging the divergent encounter of victims, paper emphasizes the essentials for justice system to embrace the approaches that examine interesting identities such as sexuality, race, disability, which affect victim experiences and desire reshape legal responses. By comparative research of international approaches to TFGBV discloses constructive policies for counters against online harassment. This paper focused on the balancing sufferer privacy, observation, and unties speech instructions for managing digital verifications. The paper inspects the role of international agreements in acknowledging TFGBV, underling how they can strengthen global endeavors. This paper focused on accommodate the Artificial intelligence and legal framework to flourish and extensive paths to TFGBV, connecting technological innovations with sturdy legal manners strengthen victims protection and grantee offender answerability.

Keywords

Gender-Based Violence, Artificial Intelligence, Cyberbullying, Legal Frameworks

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DOI: 10.52279/jlss.06.04.359375  | 26-42  |  PDF