Club de Madrid Articles

Vaira Vike Freiberga, new Club de Madrid President

The Riga-born leader will start her mandate the first of January of 2014 after being elected today by the Club de Madrid’s General Assembly. Vaira Vike Freiberga (1 December 1937) has an remarkable political trajectory and a strong commitment to democracy and civil...

Kofi Annan: “Young people have paid the heaviest price in terms of lost jobs and dashed prospects”

Mr. Annan said that the grievances of young people are understandable, because "they have been the least responsible for the economic downturn, yet have paid the heaviest price in terms of lost jobs and dashed prospects". He also remembered that 23.4 millions of young...

High level Australian, Russian and OECD G20 representatives in the upcoming Club de Madrid Annual Conference on jobs and inclusive growth

The G20 line up during the “Societies that work; Jobs for inclusive growth. A call to the G20” WLA-Club de Madrid Annual Conference has significantly increased: Margaret Kidd, First Assistant Secretary and Chair of the Australian G20 Employment Taskforce will join New...

Member Pastrana leads Shared Societies Project mission to Guatemala City

During the mission the Delegation, which included Daniel de Torres, former Barcelona Immigration and Intercultural Dialogue Commissioner representing the Council of Europe Intercultural Cities Project, focused on exploring how the local level could best...

Promoting Democracy Promotes Peace

Oct 9, 2015

The Club de Madrid wishes to congratulate Tunisian society as a whole, its political parties, civil society leaders, and all of those involved in this promising and inspiring process in a country that is laying the foundations for a democracy through dialogue and based on rights, equality and...

Club de Madrid and ICSR convene 40 former presidents and 200 experts to build a global consensus on radicalization and violent extremism

Oct 1, 2015

MADRID+10 THE GLOBAL POLICY DIALOGUE ON PREVENTING AND COUNTERING VIOLENT EXTREMISM #GlobalConsensus 250 high level experts and policy makers, including 40 Club de Madrid Members, all of them democratically elected former Prime Ministers and Presidents, will convene during the Madrid+10 Policy...

‘Democracy is still missing’: op-ed by Freiberga, Ramos-Horta and Kok in the Hufftington Post

Sep 29, 2015

Democracy is still the missing ingredient in the SGD's A set of renewed and enhanced Development Goals -- the post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) -- will be solemnly adopted by some 150 world leaders on 25-27 September at the UN Sustainable Development Summit in New York. UN...

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