Sentences with phrase «global civil society»

Within global civil society, we are the very few given voice in these halls.

Thus, nationalism is also an importantvehicle for global civil society.

Declan Kuch: Carbon markets have always been at the mercy of three competing forces: (1) the efficiency discourse driven by economists and industrialists; (2) efficacy concerns pressed by global civil society actors like Carbon Market Watch; and (3) the national development concerns supposedly embodied in Designated National Authorities.

This is the headline conclusion of the inaugural report on the state of civil society from global civil society network CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation.

Two decades of global civil society opposition impeded its planned commercialization in Philippines, Bangladesh and Indonesia.

John Keane34 argues that «so - called domestic civil societies andthe emerging global civil society are normally linked togetherin complex, cross-boarder patterns of looped and re-looped circuitry».

Global civil society represents the potentialof transnational civil society to enhance democracy in global governance.

The relationship between nationalism and internationalism issimilar to that between civil society and global civil society.As civil society embraces civil and grassroots activities andthe sustained participation of people in communal affairs, global civil society also involves activities of autonomous individualsin the pursuit of pluralism.

What is significant about global civil society is that it leads to rising above parochialinterests and encourages the development of a cosmopolitan worldcitizenship beyond national boundaries.

It belongs to cities, businesses, nongovernmental organizations, and all of global civil society as much as it belongs to nation - states».

The Rio +20 People's Summit for Social and Environmental Justice is an event organized by global civil society which is happening until June 23 at Aterro do Flamengo.

I will say this: Almost two decades after I started working on climate change, I was happily astounded to witness the crystallization, on the streets of Copenhagen, of a grassroots movement that was both energetic and sophisticated, and to see global civil society groups working in solidarity with the leaders of the world's poorest and most vulnerable nations to press a collective agenda.

ICNL helps establish the legal framework for a strong and effective global civil society through:

In a panel discussion, Williams and Ms. Madeleine Rees, Secretary - General of WILPF, discussed the new global civil society initiative to ensure that a human is always in control of battlefield decisions to target and use violent force.

Katitza is well known to many in global civil society and in international policy venues for her work at the U.N. Internet Governance Forum and her pivotal role in the creation and ongoing success of the Civil Society Information Society Advisory Council at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, for which she served as the civil society liaison while at EPIC from 2008 to March 2010.

Deibert has written a report for GISWatch (Global Information Society Watch) entitled Toward a Cyber Security Strategy for Global Civil Society?

Russian Philosopher Alexander Chumakov believes that «At the dawn of global civil society, the test for humanity is to achieve unity while preserving cultural differences as well as the distinctiveness of nations and peoples.

The Rio +20 People's Summit for Social and Environmental Justice was the counter event to the official conference, both symbolically and physically: it was organized by global civil society to condemn the lack of action of the past 20 years and to coordinate efforts from different segments, and it took place about two hours away from Riocentro.

February 16, 2017: Mark Zuckerberg writes a nearly 6,000 word manifesto, «Building Global Community,» on the future of Facebook and global civil society.

The Rise of Global Civil Society: Building Communities and Nations from the Bottom Up by Don Eberly Encounter, 300 pages, $ 27.95

Please note that as of 1 January 2008, responsibility for servicing the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women has been transferred Transparency International is the global civil society organisation leading the fight against corruption.

Sadly, Rio +20 was also a demonstration of how fragmented the global civil society has become.

Thus, there is no global civil society without a shared sense of national community.

Mr. Dakshitha Wickremarathne, Social worker and Member of the Global Civil Society Advisory Group (GCSAG)

Beyond 2015 A global civil society campaign for a successor to the 2015 Millennium Development Goals.