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News in brief

400 Participants

Participation in the World Assembly is not the result of open applications. Through a decentralized collective system, potential participants were identified and proposed by networks and movements involved in the Alliance for a Responsible, Plural and United World. To materialize the diversity of the global civil society, the 400 participants, men and women of all ages, had to come from the whole world (125 countries represented) and belong to different socioprofessional spheres.


All world regions

Africa - Middle East: 60 participants
The Americas: 70 participants
Asia-Oceania: 150 participants
Europe-Russia: 75 participants


Socioprofessional groups

The first workshops, on Monday December 3rd and Tuesday December 4 will gather the different socioprofessional groups

" Artists/Publishers
" Teachers-Academics
" Religious leaders
" Journalists
" Scientists
" Shareholders/Financiers
" Nonprofit organizations and NGOs
" Business leaders and executives
" Young people
" Grassroots community organizations/people in precarious situations
" Trade unions
" Farmers/Fishermen
" Social-health professionals
" Elected representatives
" International civil servants
" Jurists/Military personnel-peace makers
" Politicians
" Women


Work Venues

The opening and closing plenary sessions (Sunday, December 2 in the afternoon and Monday December 10) will be held at the Lille Grand Palais (Palais des Congrès de Lille, 1 Bd des Cités Unies). Given the limited space, these sessions will be open to the Nord-Pas de Calais region on invitation only and to a few national and international distinguished guests. These sessions will be attended by up to 1,500 persons. The workshop sessions will be distributed among two venues: Lille Grand Palais and the Nouveau Siècle (Place Mendès France) and will not be open to the public.


A Public Show Case

A marquee will be set up at the Place de la République in Lille during the entire World Assembly. It will be open to the public. It will offer:

" A live video of what is happening in the Assembly venues.
" A daily summary of the deliberations.
" An exhibit of the original works created for the magazine Caravan. This magazine is circulated free of charge to more than 5,000 people and institutions in 120 countries.
" An exhibit of the creations for the project "My Dream for the Planet" organized by the magazine Caravan: Some 200 works - drawings, poems, collages - made by children in the five continents and drawings submitted to the contest organized by the Fondation pour les Générations Futures (Belgium).


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