Kenyan media leader, award-winning gender equality advocate, and women’s digital safety advocate Queenter Mbori has been appointed to the Global Cyber Safety Advisory Council (GCSAC), where she will contribute to the Council’s Cyber Harassment Support initiative focusing on Women’s Digital Safety & Media.
Mbori, who serves as the Executive Director of the Association of Media Women in Kenya (AMWIK), joins a network of global voices working to strengthen responses to cyber harassment and other forms of technology-facilitated violence.
Her appointment recognises her leadership in the media sector and her work advocating for safer digital spaces for women. Through AMWIK, Mbori has contributed to efforts addressing issues including online harassment, sextortion, digital intimidation and other technology-enabled harms affecting women and communities.
Her appointment comes as women and girls increasingly face different forms of violence and abuse online. Cyber harassment, image-based abuse, sextortion and online intimidation can have serious consequences that extend beyond digital platforms, affecting women’s safety, mental wellbeing, livelihoods and ability to participate freely in professional and public life.
For women working in journalism, activism and other highly visible professions, these threats can also become a barrier to freedom of expression and meaningful participation in public conversations.
Through her new role, Mbori will have an opportunity to bring Kenyan and African perspectives into global discussions on digital safety, particularly around how technology-facilitated violence affects women in media and their communities.
Her appointment also underscores the growing need to connect women’s rights, media freedom and digital safety. As technology becomes increasingly embedded in how people work, communicate and participate in civic life, ensuring that women can safely occupy digital spaces remains an important gender equality issue.
It further highlights the importance of African voices being represented in global conversations about cyber safety, particularly as governments, technology platforms, civil society organisations and media institutions seek more effective ways to prevent online abuse and support those affected.
Congratulations to Queenter Mbori on her appointment and on taking Kenyan and African perspectives on women’s digital safety to the global stage.
