CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation is an international alliance established in 1993 to nurture the foundation, growth and protection of citizen action throughout the world, especially in areas where participatory democracy and citizens
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- CIVICUS World Assembly
Palais des congrès de Montréal
Friday, August 20 at 7:00am
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CIVICUS visit to Zimbabwe, December 2008Created about 10 months ago
The CSI Secretariat in Johannesburg would like to say a fond farewell and good luck to Bilal Aurang Zeb, who has left the CIVICUS to pursue an M&E position with the UNDP in Sudan.Bilal joined the CSI in June 2009, and contributed a great deal to the programme and to CIVICUS. His lively and po...
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CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation What kind of a ‘real deal’ do you expect at the COP 15 in Copenhagen? Politically-binding deal? Co2 reduction agreement? Legally-binding deal? A funding agreement? No deal! Share you opinion.....
CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation thanks to everyone who commented on last week's poll.please to check out your comments on e-civicus which is our weekly newsletter. you can subscribe on our website
On November 18 2009, the Civil Society Index national coordinating organisation in Russia, the State University Higher School of Economics Centre for Civil Society Studies, convened a research seminar entitled “The Civil Society Index in Russia: Methodology and Research Results”.Direc...
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CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation On December 12, we will gather in every corner of the world for the next massive global day of action. Our message is clear - at the Copenhagen climate summit, the WORLD WANTS A REAL DEAL! Find out how you can get involved in this campaign by visiting http://tcktcktck.org/. Below check CIVICUS staff showing that they too want a real deal.
CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation Do you sometimes think that your civil society organisation would have been able to shed some light on the latest news story – if only you’d been asked? Do you want to make the expertise of your organisation more accessible to the media? If yes, you’ll want to visit http://www.civicus.org/cs_gateway/
Chandio Ahmed Ali Striving for the betterment of civil society is very much noble cause, so i do feel very good to be a part of an organization doing its best for the said cause.
CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation What do you think is most impacted by climate change? Gender equality? Human rights? Poverty? Health? Developing countries?
Emrah Göker Dear folks, I'm looking for "number of CSOs" and "membership levels" statistics at the EU level, for a comparison in our recently completed "Civil Society Culture in Turkey" project. Still googling, but if someone can point towards viable links, would be much appreciated.
CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation Check out this recent interview with Ingrid Srinath, CIVICUS Secretary General on how women should be more then just Window Dressing!
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The CIVICUS Civil Society Index Project in Chile, coordinated by the Fundación Soles, obtained the sponsorship of the Bicentenary Commission on 13th October 2009. With this recognition, information about the events and activities of the CSI-Chile will also be shared through the communication chan...
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CIVICUS condemns the introduction of the Anti Homosexuality Bill 2009 in the Uganda Parliament on 14 October 2009. The Bill contains derogatory references to members of the lesbian, gay, bi-sexual and transgender (LGBT) community as well as sexual rights activists -- whom it accuses of “seeking t...
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CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation Climate: A question of justice.This week, lifelong human rights activist Kumi Naidoo takes over as international executive director of Greenpeace. Here, he explains why he is making the jump to a mainstream environmental organisation, and what role he sees for organisations such as Greenpeace in the modern world.
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This week, lifelong human rights activist Kumi Naidoo takes over as international executive director of Greenpeace. Here, he explains why he is making the jump to a mainstream environmental organisation, and what role he sees for organisations such as Greenpeace in the modern world.
