According to United Nations, "Ditch the Label" and Brandwatch spent four years analyzing the content of 19 million tweets. The analysis revealed that there were nearly 5 million misogynistic comments on Twitter alone, 52 percent of which came from female tweeters, and that comments were often directed at other women's physical appearance, intelligence, and sexual preferences. The report also found that there were 7.7 million racist comments on Twitter, as well as 390,296 homophobic comments and 19,348 transphobic comments.

Protecting our human rights

For all of us, our identity is sacred, something to be crafted and developed over the course of our lives. Every person has the right to civil liberties where they belong, the right to be able to live in freedom and dignity. For young people, their identity is not yet formed and there is still much to discover. In most cases, it is the protected characteristics that have a greater impact on identity.