Sentences with phrase «global civil society as»

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

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The «civil society» as a form of participatory democracy is a framework in which the life, the people and their communities directly participate and multilaterally and multi-dimensionally form solidarity linkages to make creative interventions in the global market process.

This redirection would require more participation by civil society as well as by government than global corporate capitalism now allows.

Clearly, we must not take for granted that the Western notion of «civil society,» as it developed largely in Britain and America from the seventeenth century onward with the close collaboration of the forebears of today's «mainline «protestant denominations, has answers for a contemporary global society.

The CGIAR Research Program for Rice, known as the Global Rice Science Partnership (GRiSP), is a partnership coordinated by six research - for - development organizations that bring together over 900 partners from the academic, public, private, and civil society sectors with a stake in the rice development sector.

The Global Network, together with other civil society organisations (CSOs) and social movements, has seized this anniversary as an opportunity for stocktaking and, more importantly, to call for renewed commitment by governments, UN agencies, civil society and other stakeholders, for the full realisation of the right to adequate food and nutrition.

Professor Aaron Michael Oquaye has written and published journals on several topics including politics In Ghana 1982 - 1992, culture, conflict and traditional Authority in Africa: a Ghanaian perspective in the Political economy of peace and security in Africa, human rights in Africa in the new global order: a dilemma as well as civil society and the domestic policy environment in Ghana.

«Building partnerships between city governments, civil society and the business community is very important to RMIT, as a global university and as a corporate citizen,» Professor Drummond said.

A full 62 percent of independents, for instance, see global warming as a problem that justifies national leadership, according to a survey commissioned by the nonprofit Civil Society Institute.

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.

This Congress will bring together approximately 200 stakeholders in global education, in particular international organisations, governments, parliamentarians, local and regional authorities, civil society organisations, as well as educators from Europe and beyond, using the principle of «quadrilogue» and a holistic approach to global education.

The report, the State of Civil Society 2011, available at StateOfCivilSociety.org, concludes that in the face of connected economic, environmental, political and social crises, the institutions of global governance have been revealed as lacking.

«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.

Civil society faces a generational opportunity to prove its value as a source of alternatives at a time of profound global crisis.

In May 2015, Chiefs of State and Ministries of Education of the UN countries, as well representatives of global civil society organizations, universities, entrepreneurs and media will meet in the city of Incheon, South Korea, to discuss and firm a commitment with the realization of the 4th Sustainable Development Goal of the post 2015 Agenda: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote life - long learning opportunities for all.

The educational team Education for Life participated as facilitators on September 27th and 28th, in the 2nd European Congress on Global Education organized by the North - South Centre of the Council of Europe in Lisbon, where they met parliamentarians, governments, local and regional authorities, civil society organizations and higher education institutions.

Prof. Javier Collado Ruano was invited to attend Rio +20 after his proposal «THE VALUE OF GLOBAL EDUCATION AS AN ENGINE TO PROMOTE POVERTY ERADICATION AND TO ACHIEVE A SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT» was the most voted by civil society around the world.

There is growing evidence that diverse partnerships amongst local, national and regional governments as well as business and civil society provide essential safety nets should singular global policies fail — a polycentric approach for planetary stewardship.

Through her work on the Collective Leadership with La Via Campesina North America (LVC - NA) region as a representative of the Rural Coalition, she has collectively developed strategies that advocate for a stronger civil society voice on food sovereignty and in negotiations that represented the Global south in the North.

In a policy paper released ahead of the July summit, civil society groups said that President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement was «short - sighted and irresponsible... a decision that not only ignores the reality of climate change... but also undermines the standing of the United States as a reliable partner in solving global problems.»

It might include for instance water stress in specific area — with defined consequences such as on biodiversity, fire, security or civil society — at either global or regional scales or both.

«We had hoped that this would be the year that the process was opened up to voices from civil society and the global South, but as the climate talks draw to a close it is becoming clear that the ears of the global North are closed to any just and effective climate solutions.

It might include for instance water stress in a specific area — with defined consequences such as on biodiversity, fire, security or civil society — at either global or regional scales or both.

That message has more relevance than ever as hundreds of thousands of people, us among them, marched Sunday in the streets of New York demanding their leaders take urgent action to address climate change, and as heads of government, industry, and civil society gather at the United Nations for an unprecedented global - warming summit.

The Board's constituencies self - selected two representatives each to the working group, as follows: partner countries (Papua New Guinea and Viet Nam); donors (Japan and Norway); UN Agencies (FAO and UNEP); Civil Society organizations (CAMV and Global Witness); and Indigenous Peoples (AMAN and UNPFII).

At the ICLEI World Congress 2018, local and regional governments will play their role as a convening force between nations, civil society, the private sector and research institutions doing their part to advance global goals.

WEDO, along with the Council of Women World Leaders and the Heinrich Boell Foundation will be co-hosting a roundtable event on Friday to be led by former Irish president Mary Robinson and ex-Norwegian prime minister Gro Harlem Brundtland — intrepidly described as the «the first ever global gathering of high - level government, U.N. and civil society organizations» on climate change issues.

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 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 Marcsociety 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 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 MarcSociety 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 MarcSociety 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 civil society liaison while at EPIC from 2008 to Marcsociety liaison while at EPIC from 2008 to March 2010.

Korean civil society is unusually strong, as global leaders learned when protests and public outcry successfully ousted former President Park Geun - hye.

Benjamin Barber, senior research scholar at the Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society at The Graduate Center at CUNY, argued cities might do a better job tackling global issues such as climate change than whole countries or larger organizations such as the United Nations.