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The weaponization of technology and private information in digital spaces has become all too prevalent in today’s online interactions. Nowhere is this more apparent than with online gender-based violence (OGBV). This modern form of violence perpetuates gender inequality and has significant impacts on its targets, including silencing women’s and LGBTQ+ voices online. The Supporting a Safer Internet project set out to conduct ground-breaking research.

Dr. Bessma Momani is Full Professor in the Department of Political Science  at the University of Waterloo.

Gaps between Internet usage and public policy are prevalent both globally and locally across a number of areas, ranging from cybersecurity to diplomacy, net neutrality, data governance, privacy and freedom of expression issues. The shifting demographic basis of Internet-using populations makes it doubly important that public opinion surveys aimed at informing public policy reach traditionally marginalized voices.

The World Refugee Council was established in 2017 with the objective of developing innovative ideas aimed at stimulating transformative change in the way the world perceives and responds to refugees and those forcibly displaced. The report contains recommendations based on three glaring shortcomings in the present international refugee system: lack of accountability; ineffective responsibility-sharing and governance; and inadequate funding.