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The first version of the Web site for the Charter of Human Responsibilities is open! The Charter is about to be disseminated, discussed, and adapted. The International Facilitation Committee in charge of doing so will be supported by partners in the different regions of the world. Please visit the Web site (...)
Glegbenu and Traversées met in Benin this past September 28 - October 10, 2004. On the program of this crossing of paths between two associated Alliance initiatives: mutual discovery of their projects, experience sharing, presentation workshops for the Charter of Human Responsibilities, and the mapping thesaurus method. The Glegbenu network, linked to the Youth Workshop of the Alliance, and (...)
On invitation by a few members of the Board of the Charles Léopold Meyer Foundation who attended the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre on January 26-31, 2005, a meeting for sharing impressions took place between them and the Allies who organized workshops in the Forum. The members of the FPH Board wished to know more about the different Allies’ initiatives, as well as about the vision that (...)
The city-port of Valparaíso, declared World Heritage by UNESCO, and Santiago, the capital of Chile, located at the southern tip of America, were the setting in which the members of the Coordination Committee for the promotion of the Charter of Human Responsibilities held their work sessions. This was the second international meeting of the Committee, which had met for the first time in October (...)
From their inequality, a large number of women are taking part in the construction of a more socially aware world
Company regulation no longer depends on the traditional struggle between unions and owners, but on a much broader social dialogue. In addition to salaried staff and executives, new agents (shareholders, consumers, public authorities, NGOs) now actively help private enterprise to become a true asset for society, accepting its social and environmental (...)
The second meeting of “Artists Having Coffee” took place at the Pólis Institute on April 28 as part of the events of the World Network of Artists in Alliance set up in the late nineties. These meetings are attended by artists or persons involved in culture in Brazil or abroad. Following is an interview with Hamilton Faria, coordinator of the Pólis Culture Team and facilitator of the Network. (...)
The Charles Léopold Mayer Foundation for the Progress of Humankind (FPH) recently presented a proposal for a Constituent Charter for the Alliance. This proposal was sent with a questionnaire by regular and electronic mail to all Allies, friends, contacts and partners of the Alliance. The answers to the questionnaire are posted on a new Web site as they are received. Everyone can react to (...)
"To whom does the city belong? Whose is the city?" wondered the Heinrich Böll Foundation in a long memorandum preliminary to the Johannesburg Summit in 2002. "The city, for whom and by whom?" wondered the UNESCO along similar lines in preparation for Habitat II in 1996. We would like to start from there, from "the right to the city". What is it about, in the North and in the South? This will (...)
A very ambitious citizens project is cooking. The UN is currently talking about reform and it is easy to see that it’s not going to be much more than business-as-usual while wars continue and poverty progresses. Citizens around the world are expected to stand helpless as our global institutions haggle and remain ineffective, when they are not actually making things worse. A (...)
Technology, of increasing importance in the economic sphere, has not only brought progress, but it has also created risks for traditional economic models and for society in general. It represents great advances, but it also increases inequality, particularly in so-called poor countries (“digital divide”), and also between the North and the South (dependence linked to intellectual property, (...)
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