Digital technologies have the power to transform and to offer developing country women opportunities to advance gender justice and equality.
Data on sexual violence against women and men, both during and after conflicts, shows alarming levels of abuse across the globe.
IDRC's Expert and Advisory Fund (EASF) aimed to support Canada's role in the multilateral peace process in the Middle East focusing on the issue of Palestinian refugees.
Over the past decade, television broadcasting has become central in shaping public attitudes in the Middle East.
Despite the prevalence of human rights and international humanitarian law violations in Afghanistan, the Afghan media has generally not gone beyond reporting broad allegations.
The 2002 Arab Human Development Report identified a fundamental "freedom deficit" in the Arab World evident in the widespread authoritarianism and lack of democracy throughout the region.