Jukka Salovaara is Permanent Representative of Finland to the United Nations. He served as Chair of the Executive Board of UN-Women in 2020 and is currently a member of the Advisory Board on Gender Equality of the President of the United Nations General Assembly.

Twitter: @jukka_salovaara, @FinlandUN

Online Harassment Is Not Gender-Neutral

Cover of the report "Abuse of Power: Coordinated Online Harassment of Finnish Government Ministers". Designed by Kristina Van Sant, Rolf Fredheim and  Gundars Bergmanis-Korāts.
Jukka Salovaara, Permanent Representative of Finland to the United Nations, co-chairs the first meeting of the Group of Friends on Digital Technologies. United Nations, New York, 21 November 2019. UN Photo/Rick Bajornas

Only through collective action between governments, the private sector and civil society can we achieve a future where people can discuss societal issues online free of abuse, regardless of their gender.