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  • Catherine Van de Heyning

Strasbourg’s consolidation on technology-facilitated gender-based violence: M.Ș.D. v. Romania

April 22, 2025

By Catherine Van de Heyning As society digitalised, so did gender-based violence. Technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TFGBV) has become an unfortunate byproduct of digitalisation. The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) already recognised that cyberviolence may amount to a violation of the right to privacy and, in some instances, even to degrading and inhuman treatment. In […]