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Access to Justice for Indigenous and Peasant Women in Colombia and Guatemala

Despite the widespread nature of abuse facing women in contexts of armed conflict and transition, there is little documentation on how such women experience injustice and how they exercise their agenc

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Books explore alternatives to the delivery of public services

The IDRC-funded Municipal Services Project launched two books in March 2012 exploring alternatives to the privatization of basic public services. Both books are available for free online. Remunicipalisation: Putting Water Back into Public Hands...

News

New UN special rapporteur on transitional justice

18/04/2012

IDRC congratulates Pablo de Greiff of the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ), on his nomination by the UN Human Rights Council to serve as the first Special Rapporteur on transitional justice. De Greiff is the director of research...

New Vice-President appointed at IDRC

20/03/2012

IDRC welcomes a new vice-President, Program and Partnership Branch on April 2, 2012. In announcing the appointment of Jean Lebel, IDRC President David Malone cited his “many years of outstanding service within IDRC and his enviable reputation both...

Events

Highlight: IDRC Takes to Parliament Hill

13/03/2012

About 40 Canadian Parliamentarians, media, industry heads, and IDRC senior staff were up early Tuesday March 13 for the Centre’s Breakfast on the Hill event. Sponsored by Conservative MP, Dean Allison, the event featured Carlos Perez del Castillo...

Human Suffering and Humanitarian Response, with Craig Calhoun, Professor, New York University and Director-Designate, London School of Economics

28/03/2012

Humanitarian emergencies are not simply brute facts that appeal directly to our emotions or our moral sensibilities. They are one of the important ways in which perceptions of human life, sympathy for suffering, and responses to social upheaval have...

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Access to Justice for Indigenous and Peasant Women in Colombia and Guatemala

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Criminality and Violence in Latin America: a Comparative Perspective between Mexico, Colombia and Brazil

This project will examine the dynamics of crime, violence and drug trafficking in urban centres in three Latin American countries: Brazil (Rio de Janeiro); Colombia (Medellín and Bogotá); and Mexico (

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Latin American Security, Drugs and Democracy (LASDD) Fellowship Program

This grant will support a program of fellowships and workshops on the link between security, organized crime, drugs and democracy in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). The program is expected to h

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Citizen-based Strategies to Improve Community Security: Working with Vulnerable Populations to Address Urban Violence in Medellin

This project aims to understand the security situation faced by vulnerable populations in the violence-affected communities in the city of Medellín, Colombia, from the perspective of those living with

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Strengthening Research Capacity for Governance and Security in sub-Saharan Africa

African research has yet to recover from the structural adjustment programs of the 1980s and 1990s, when budget cuts dramatically reduced the capacity of universities to invest in research and develop

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Books explore alternatives to the delivery of public services

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Participation reduces health inequities in rural Guatemala

A long history of discrimination and 36 years of armed conflict in Guatemala have created unequal power relations and a lack of trust between indigenous citizens and public organizations. Rebuilding trust between the state and its citizens presents...

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Protecting youth's privacy in Latin America

Mexico and Uruguay have adopted a memorandum of agreement to protect youth's privacy and personal data on social networks. The document – the result of IDRC-supported research – has also become a key reference document for many Latin American...

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Media piracy rampant in developing countries

In a landmark report, Media piracy in emerging economies, authors and researchers argue that media piracy in emerging economies results from a combination of high prices for media goods, low incomes, and cheap digital technologies. CDs, DVDs...

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