Club de Madrid Articles

Social Development policies after the COVID-19 pandemic: Reducing inequalities to make everyone count

As the world emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic and enters the Decade of Action, we collectively need to think about the efforts and adjustments needed to make good on the promise of the SDGs.  We call on the importance of tackling Goal 10 - Reducing inequalities as...

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Helen Clark urge concrete political action on pandemic preparedness

In response to the World Health Assembly (WHA) May 19th resolution last year, the World Health Organization (WHO) established the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response (IPPPR). The mission of this Panel is to impartially provide an evidence-based...

Peace in the Age of Chaos: How peace can help us solve global challenges

As the world was already struggling to juggle life-defining challenges such as climate change, decreasing biodiversity and food security, the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in early March 2020 provided additional mayhem that sent shock waves across the globe. Acting...

International perspectives on information policy and media development in the digital age

Digital transformations are putting the foundations of democracy to the test on a global scale. Regulators face the challenge of striking a balance between policy-making and freedom of expression when trying to address disinformation, fake news, hate speech and...
Disinformation as a Weapon of War

Disinformation as a Weapon of War

Danilo Türk and  Peter Loewen will participe in a roundtable to talk about the use of fake news and disinformation in times of war. It can be as harmful as a gun. 

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