What We Do

Our mission is to provide a pathway to safety and resilience for those who face online attacks and to help build a safer online world.

Stop Online Harm is a comprehensive initiative designed to combat technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TFGBV), focusing on offering crucial support to the LGBTQI+ community, vulnerable groups, women politicians, journalists, human rights defenders and civil society leaders.

Our work focuses on three areas: Empowering those at risk, Exposing the realities of online harm through documentation and research, Engaging governments, regulators and tech platforms to minimize online harm.

Empower - Providing personalized assistance through the rapid response service: The Online Ambulance. Educating the vulnerable on how best they can avoid online attacks and how best they can defend themselves and build resilience in case they do.

Expose - Documenting cases of online attacks in a scientific way to build a comprehensive database that serves to better understand the fast evolving nature of online harm to be able to better understand it, prevent it and address the damage it does.

Engage - Advocating for a safer online world using our research and experience to encourage governments, regulators and technology companies to take the steps required to allow all to live safely in an online world where all can fulfil their aspirations.