Are media merely transmitters of information relating to gender equality or are they joint partners to operationalize the Beijing Declaration, enabling the creation of knowledge and multiply its outcomes?
In this connection, different activities and cultural manifestations implemented by the countries contributed to the wide dissemination and knowledge of the Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity , which all participants considered the best asset for the promotion of intercultural dialogue.
The report was commissioned by ICSU's General Assembly in September 1999 to make a 'critical study' of the paragraphs in the Declaration and Science Agenda referring to traditional knowledge systems.