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Why the Global Youth Forum is truly revolutionary! – Day 3
Last day of the Global Youth Forum! The intensive pace of the Forum’s programme of work has exhausted the energy of many delegates today, as I could notice from observing a few worn faces. Negotiations...
View ArticleMake your voice heard in 2013!
As we conclude another fruitful year of work advancing citizen action and strengthening civil society, I would like to thank you – CIVICUS’ colleagues, members, supporters and friends – for your...
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Looking beyond 2015 in Cameroon: COSADER and CIVICUS hold consultations on...
In line with the Commonwealth Foundation’s Breaking Point initiative, Collectif des ONG pour la Sécurité Alimentaire et le Développement Rural (COSADER) and CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen...
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mPowering youth engagement in civil society
In late 2011 the world arrived at an important milestone when the 7 billionth person was born, resulting at the same time in the largest youth cohort ever seen, with individuals under 25 making up 43%...
View ArticleShaping the Post 2015 Development Agenda: Shouldn’t we be focusing on the...
This week, the world’s development spotlight will be on Johannesburg. The UN is hosting a global consultation of experts on ‘governance and the post 2015 development agenda’ from 28 February to 1 March...
View ArticleMeasure What You Treasure: Reflections from the Post-2015 Governance...
As a part of THE WORLD WE WANT, the post-2015 global thematic consultation on governance held in Johannesburg on 28 February – 1 March, I communicated my message for civil society strategies in 4...
View ArticleDispatches from Geneva: 1st Week of the Human Rights Council (25th February...
By Aisha Onsando, CIVICUS Intern, Geneva The 22nd Session of the Human Rights Council opened with a high level panel commemorating the 20th Anniversary of the adoption of the Vienna Declaration and...
View ArticlePost 2015, ou l’occasion d’une réforme
Jean-François Lyotard, philosophe français disparu en 1998, a ouvert ses « Moralités post-modernes » par la formule suivante : « Qu’il nous arrive quelque chose… Nous n’attendons finalement que cela :...
View ArticleFrom subjects to citizens – accountability in the post-2015 development agenda
This week I have the privilege of being in Bali for meetings around the 4th High Level Panel of Eminent Persons on Post-2015 Development Agenda. From individual youth activists to parliamentarians to...
View ArticleAfrica’s liberators should embrace civil society as an ally
Governments across Africa are clamping down on dissent, hiding their secrets and attacking the funding base of their critics. And it seems that those who fought hardest for freedom, are now those least...
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