Actors

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• ActionAid International
  ActionAid is an international anti-poverty agency whose aim is to fight poverty worldwide. Formed in 1972, for over 30 years they have been growing and expanding to where they are today - helping over 13 million of the world's poorest and most disadvantage ...
• African Centre for Democracy and Human Rights Studies
  The Africa Centre for Democracy and Human Rights Studies was created due to the excesses of some African governments in the violation of Human Rights. Its main objective is is to give meaning to Article 25 of the African Charter, which requires States Part ...
• Alternative Information and Development Centre
  AIDC aims to contribute to the development of national, regional and international challenges to the currently dominant global economic system through research, information production and dissemination, popular education, campaigning and coalition building ...
• Annan, Kofi
  Kofi Annan of Ghana is the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations. The first Secretary-General to be elected from the ranks of United Nations staff, he began his first term on 1 January 1997. On 29 June 2001, acting on a recommendation by the Secu ...
• Asociación de Universidades Grupo Montevideo
  Actually, Grupo Montevideo is a Virtual University with a supportive distribution of high qualified academic staff, academic material resources, installations, equipment, teams, laboratories, and libraries; it is a common broaded academic space where barri ...
• Association Internationale des Universités
  IAU, founded in 1950, is the UNESCO-based worldwide association of universities. It brings together institutions and organisations from some 150 countries for reflection and action on common concerns and collaborates with various international, regional an ...
• Austrian EU-Platform of Non-Governmental Development Organisations
  The Austrian EU-platform of non-governmental development is a democratic and pluralistic association of organisations active in development cooperation, humanitarian aid as well as development education and awareness raising. The Austrian Platform represen ...
• Beck, Ulrich
  Ulrich Beck is professor for Sociology at the University of Munich, and the British Journal of Sociology professor at the London School of Economics and Sciences. His interests focus on 'risk society', 'individualization' and 'reflexive modernization'
• Bordia, Anil
  Anil Bordia was Indian Education Secretary between 1987 and 1992. During his tenure a clear shift of priority was made to basic education. He was responsible for pioneering projects concerning the universalization of primary education. He has dedicated his ...
• British Overseas Network for Development
  BOND is the network of more than 280 UK based voluntary organisations working in international development and development education. BOND provides a central point for advocacy on issues on which member organisations have a common view and would benefit fr ...
• Brutus, Dennis
  Dennis Brutus is a South African poet who was an activist against the apartheid government of South Africa in the 1960s. He was forbidden to teach, write and publish in South Africa. In 1983, Brutus won the right to stay in the United States as a political ...
• California State University
  California State University, Sacramento is dedicated to the life-altering potential of learning that balances a liberal arts education with depth of knowledge in a discipline. CSUS is committed to providing an excellent education to all eligible applicants ...
• Centre UNESCO de Catalunya
  The organizations of the United Nations system are based on the states and, therefore, they don't recognize subestatals organizations. However, in 1984 the Centre Unesco de Catalunya was constituted so as to assure an official presence of the catalan cult ...
• CIVICUS
  CIVICUS is an international alliance dedicated to strengthening citizen action and civil society throughout the world. Our vision is of a worldwidecommunity of informed, inspired, committed citizens engaged in confronting the challenges facing humanity. CI ...
• Commonwealth Foundation
  The Commonwealth Foundation is an independent, non-profit research and educational institute that develops and advances public policies based on the nation’s founding principles of limited constitutional government, economic freedom, and personal responsib ...
• Coopération Internationale pour le Développement et la Solidarité
  Inspired and guided by the Gospel Word and by the social teachings of the Church, CIDSE works to free societies of poverty and oppression and to enable their transformation into communities of solidarity through socially- and culturally-sensitive developme ...
• Coordination SUD
  Founded in 1994, Coordination SUD - Solidarité Urgence Développement - brings together six groups of NGOs (CLONG-Volontariat, CNAJEP, Coordination d’Agen, CRID, FORIM, Groupe initiatives) and more than 130 NGOs French international solidarity. These NGOs a ...
• Corpwatch
  On the ground and on the web, through education and activism, Oakland-based CorpWatch works to hold corporations accountable on issues of human rights, labor rights and environmental justice, locally and globally. CorpWatch.org website and its campaigns on ...
• Cousteau Society
  Cousteau Society's mission is to educate people to understand, to love and to protect the water systems of the planet, marin and fresh water, for the well-being of future generations.
• Education International
  Education International is the federation of organisations representing over 30 milion teachers and other education workers. Thet try to unify all teachers and education workers. EI promotes the rights of every teachere wherever they are, and the rights of ...
• EHESS
  L'École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), est un grand établissement relevant du ministère chargé de l’Éducation nationale, de l'Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche. Elle a pour mission la formation à la recherche par la recherche.
• Emory University
  American university
• Ferraté, Gabriel
  Gabriel Ferraté is the vice-chancellor of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, President of the Caixa de Catalunya and vicepresident of the board of directors of the Internartional Council for Open and Distance Education.
• Ford Foundation
  Founded in 1936, the foundation operated as a local philanthropy in the state of Michigan until 1950, when it expanded to become a national and international foundation. Since its inception it has been an independent, nonprofit, non-governmental organizati ...
• France Libertés - Fondation Danielle Mitterrand
  Danielle Mitterrand's foundation takes action on the following issues: water access and recognition as a common good, education, social responsibility on economy and democratic practices.
• Gerth, Donald
  Born on 4 December 1928, Dr. Donald Gerth's career in education spans 50 years. President of California State University, Sacramento, in his 14th year since taking office in July 1984, he came to Sacramento from California State University, Dominguez Hills ...
• Hague Appeal for Peace, The
  The Hague Appeal for Peace is an international network of individuals and organizations dedicated to sowing the seeds for the abolition of war through advocacy and training in peace education. HAP started in 1996 with the mission to organize the largest pe ...
• Heinrich Böll Stiftung
  The Heinrich Böll Foundation, affiliated with the Green Party and headquartered in the Hackesche Höfe in the heart of Berlin, is a legally independent political foundation working in the spirit of intellectual openness. It was founded in 1997 by uniting th ...
• Institut Interculturel de Montréal
  The Intercultural Institute of Montreal act as : • An interreligious, intercultural and interracial centre of reconciliation, encounter and solidarity among peoples of different cultures, religions, ages and socio-economic backgrounds. • A centre of analys ...
• Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
  The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy promotes resilient family farms, rural communities and ecosystems around the world through research and education, science and technology, and advocacy. In the mid-1980s, family farmers across America were in ...
• Instituto Brasileño de Análisis Sociales y Económicos
  The Brazilian Institute of Social and Economic Analyses (IBASE) was founded in 1981. It has the status of a federal nonprofit charitable organization, with no links to any religious institution or political party. Its mission is to build democracy by fight ...
• Integrated Social Development Centre
  ISODEC describes its mission as promoting social justice and fundamental human rights, especially of the poor and those without organized voice and influence. ISODEC currently provides basic needs services(health, education and micro-finance) and is also a ...
• International Campaign to Ban Landmines
  Both the causes and the effects of the landmine crisis need to be addressed. The ICBL is committed to an international ban on the use, production, stockpiling, and sale, transfer, or export of antipersonnel landmines. ICBL calls for increased resources for ...
• International Federation of ACAT
  FIACAT campaigns on behalf of people who are tortured, detained in inhuman conditions, sentenced to death or "disappeared", whatever their origins, political opinions or religious beliefs. FIACAT seeks to increase awareness in the Churches and amongst Chri ...
• International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
  IPPNW is a non-partisan, global federation of national medical organizations in 58 countries dedicated to research, education, and advocacy relevant to the prevention of nuclear war. To this end, IPPNW seeks to prevent all wars, to promote non-violent conf ...
• International Save the Children Alliance
  All children are equal, and have human rights such as the right to food, shelter, health care, education and freedom from violence, neglect and exploitation. In all its work, both long-term development and emergency relief, Save the Children helps children ...
• International Women's Tribune Centre
  The International Women's Tribune Centre (IWTC) is an international non-governmental organization established in l976 following the United Nations International Women's Year World Conference in Mexico City. With a commitment to empowering people and buildi ...
• Jauregui, Gurutz
  Gurutz Jauregui is professor of constitutional law in the Universidad del País Vasco.
• Küng, Hans
  Professor of Ecumenical Theology, University of Tübingen, President of the Foundation for a Global Ethic (Welethos).
• Linguapax Institute
  The Linguapax Institute is a non-governmental organisation located in Barcelona that was created to give continuity to a series of meetings organized by UNESCO within the framework of the Linguapax project sprung from the Kiev experts meeting in 1987. Prom ...
• Mayor Zaragoza, Federico
  Federico Mayor Zaragoza is a Spanish scholar and politician. He served as Director-General of UNESCO from 1987 to 1999. During his 12 years as head of UNESCO (1987–1999) Mayor gave new life to the organization's mission to "build a bastion of peace in the ...
• Mendes, Candido
  Candido Mendes is the vice-chancellor of the Candido Mendes University.
• Naïr, Sami
  Sami Naïr is a french philosopher and sociologist, he is political science teacher in the Paris III University.
• NETAID
  Netaid seeks to educate young people to fight global poverty. They want to create a youth movement that understands the root causes of poverty and fights to end it.
• Nieto Montesinos, Jorge
  Jorge Nieto is a governance expert, he was representing Peru in the UNESCO, and now he is president of the Center Internacional for the Democratic Culture. He participates in the World-wide Forum of the Civil Society, where it shares folder with the Spanis ...
• One World Trust
  The One World Trust is an NGO in Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. The Trust was founded in 1951 by the All-Party Parliamentary Group for World Government. The One World Trust promotes education and re ...
• Pagès, Jaume
  Jaume Pagès was vice-chancellor of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Nowadays he is the managing director of Universia.
• Pakistan Institute of Environment Development Action Resource
  The idea of the Pakistan Institute for Environment Development Action Research (PIEDAR) emerged from Pakistan's National Conservation Strategy (PNCS) which identified the need for a policy institution having solid roots in community level participatory act ...
• Requejo, Ferran
  Ferran Requejo is a Political Science Professor in the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona). His main work camps are democracy teories, liberalism, social democracy and federalism.
• Sassen, Saskia
  Saskia Sassen is an American sociologist and economist relevant for her analyses of globalization and international global migration. She currently is professor of sociology at the University of Chicago and at the London School of Economics.
• South African Council of Churches
  SACC is the facilitating body for a wide fellowship of churches committed to expressing together, through proclamation and programmes, the united witness of the church in South Africa, especially in matters of national debate and order. The Council is the ...
• Southern African Regional Poverty Network
  In February 2001, the Human Sciences Research Council, Pretoria (HSRC) was commissioned by the Department for International Development of the British Government (DFID) to establish the Southern African Regional Poverty Network (SARPN). Rationale for est ...
• Third World Institute
  The Third World Institute performs information, communication and education activities on an international level, concerning development and environment-related activities. It is a civil society organization, working for civil society, which encourages cit ...
• Treatment Action Campaign
  TAC campaigns for treatment for people with HIV and to reduce new HIV infections. Their efforts have resulted in many life-saving interventions, including the implementation of country-wide mother-to-child transmission prevention and antiretroviral treatme ...
• Trent, John
  John Trent is a professor of political science in the University of Ottawa
• Tünnermann Bernheim, Carlos
  Carlos Tünnermann is memeber of the Instituto Latinoamericano de Educación para el Desarrollo, and he is expert in latinoamerican education issues.
• Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
  UPC wishes to train good professionals which contribute to society progress as committed citizens with the environment, with the sustainability, with the solidarity amongst villages and to build upon a peace culture.
• University for Peace
  Never has the peace and security role of the United Nations been so important - or so complex. Recent upheavals in the Balkans, Africa, Timor and elsewhere have made clear the indispensable role of the United Nations in resolving conflicts. They have also ...
• University of Cape Town
  UCT's mission is to be an outstanding teaching and research university, educating for life and addressing the challenges facing our society.
• World AIDS Campaign
  The goal of the World AIDS Campaign (WAC) is to energize and support an effective and sustained response to the HIV pandemic. By helping partners work together at national and international levels, they will broaden the partnership among those shaping the ...
• World Civil Society Forum
  The project of the World Civil Society Forum was conceived initially during the Millennium Forum on UN reforms (May 2000, New York), which recalled the desire of the United Nations to work closely with civil society in its activities, as well as the reques ...
• World Federetion of UNESCO Clubs, Centres and Associations
  The WFUCA provides general co-ordination services and encourages active co-operation among National Federations through interregional and subregional programes. It is very important in educating citizens and contributes to dialogue between cultures and gen ...
• World Peace Centre
  World Peace Centre of MAEER's MIT, Pune, India was established formally on 1st December, 1996 and is a non-governmental, voluntary and non-profit organization devoted to the cause of protection of Human Rights, promotion of Culture of Peace and Democratic ...
• WOSM-World Organisation of the Scout Movement
  The mission of Scouting is to contribute to the education of young people, through a value system based on the Scout Promise and Law, to help build a better world where people are self-fulfilled as individuals and play a constructive role in society.
• Xercavins Valls, Josep
  Josep Xercavins is a permanent lecturer at the UPC, PhD in Science and coordinator of the Ad-hoc Secretariat of UBUNTU World Forum of Civil Society Networks. He was the first academic director of the Master’s degree in Sustainability at the UPC, and also c ...

Meetings

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• 2005 World Summit
  The 2005 World Summit represented an oportunity to take decisions in the areas of development, security, human rights and the reform of the United Nations. The agenda was based on a attainable system of skirted suppliers in march by Secretary General Kofi ...
• GCAP Beirut Global Meeting 2006
  The global GCAP meeting in Beirut was celebrated with about 175 representatives from all over the world. Various evaluation work was commissioned of GCAP’s external impacts, websites, finances and a questionnaire survey about the future of GCAP was condu ...
• ICPD+5
  Progress and challenges in the first five years of implementing the Cairo agreement were the focus of a series of meetings leading up to special session of the United Nations General Assembly (ICPD+5) in June 1999. The session identified four key actions: ...
• International Conference on Population and Development (ICDP)
  At the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo, 179 countries agreed that population and development are inextricably linked, and that empowering women and meeting people's needs for education and health, including repro ...
• Universal Forum of Cultures Monterrey 2007
  The city of Monterrey (Mexico) held the Universal Forum of Cultures on 2007. On this occasion, the Forum promotes thinking and methods of problem solving in order to address global issues such as peace, education, knowledge and ecological conservation, amo ...
• World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance
  Main issues: Racism, Intolerance, refuges, protection of minorities, migrants, ethnic conflicts Follow-up mechanisms:Working Group on the effective implementation of the Durban Declaration
• World Social Forum 2006
  The WSF 6th edition was decentralized. It was held in different places around the world : Bamako (Mali), Caracas (Venezuela) and Karachi (Pakistan). The Bamako event took place from January 19th to 23rd, 2006. The event in Caracas took place from January 2 ...
• World Social Forum 2007
  The first WSF world on the African continent was conducted in Nairobi, Kenya. About 75 thousand participants attended the WSF 2007 and it held 1.300 different kind of activities: self-organised, co-organised, cultural, film and youth. The methodology of c ...
• World Summit for Children
  Goals for the year 2000 for children's health, nutrition, education, and access to safe water and sanitation Mid-decade review, with Secretary-General's progress report presented at the 1996 General Assembly session on the anniversary of the Children's Sum ...

Documents

6 results found.

• Future belongs to all, The
  The Conference on the topic “From Global Warning to Global Policy” was convened by the World Political Forum and the Club of Rome and chaired by President Mikhail Gorbachev in Turin on March 28-29 2008. It gathered representatives from parliaments and othe ...
• ICPD+5: Key Actions for the Further Implementation of the ICPD Programme of Action
  In 1999, the UN General Assembly convened a special session, ICPD+5, to review progress towards meeting the ICPD goals. The review revealed that greater urgency was needed to achieve the Programme of Action, especially in the areas of education and literac ...
• Le temps d'agir
  Federico Mayor Zaragoza's article published in El País in December 2007.
• Siglo XXI: un mundo mejor o 'un mundo feliz'?
  Article about the main challenges that we are facing since the year 2000. Future deals with topics such as: poverty, water, development, mundialisation, education, technology, ethics and so on.
• Tiempo de Acción
  Federico Mayor Zaragoza's article published in El País in December 2007.
• United Nations Millennium Declaration
  In 2000, 189 Member States agreed to help the world's poorest countries significantly progress towards a better life for their people by the year 2015. A framework for progress consisting of eight Millennium Development Goals was derived from the Millenniu ...

Campaigns

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• 50 Years is Enough
  The Network is a coalition of over 200 U.S. grassroots, women's, solidarity, faith-based, policy, social- and economic-justice, youth, labor and development organizations dedicated to the profound transformation of the World Bank and the International Mone ...
• Global Campaign for Education
  The Global Campaign for Education promotes education as a basic human right, and mobilizes public pressure on governments and the international community to fulfill their promises to provide free, compulsory public basic education for all people; in partic ...
• Netaid World Schoolhouse
  Netaid World Schoolhouse is a campaign whose intention is to educate children to fight against global poverty. They give to the communities the tools and opportunities to build healthy prosperous future through education. They put children living in povert ...
• Tobin Tax Initiative
  Our goal is to increase a national dialogue on the Tobin Tax proposal by raising awareness and education among grassroots organizations, opinion leaders, and policymakers in the United States. TTI-USA also acts in solidarity and cooperation with internatio ...
• Water for Schools Campaign
  The Water for Schools Campaign aims to bring together a network of organizations and partners that deliver safe water and sanitation to schools and assist in bringing basic water and hygiene education to teachers. Its target is to provide all schools with ...

Agenda

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