Club de Madrid Articles

Live Session: Transforming Multilateralism For Social Justice and Inclusion

COVID-19 has cast a dark light on the global gap in social justice. It has evidenced inequalities and exclusion and hit the most vulnerable among us hardest. Digital technologies have been powerful instruments of resilience, but only for some of us. To bridge that...

Video: Multilateralism that Delivers

Members of Club de Madrid, all democratically elected Heads of State and Government, joined representatives from governments, academia, think tanks and institutions to propose recommendations that give a new life to multilateralism and global cooperation. Here's a...

President Türk to speak on fulfiling the promise of the UN75 Declaration

The President of Club de Madrid, Danilo Türk, joined Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland; Maria Fernanda Espinosa, President of the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly; Aya Chebbi, African Union Youth Envoy and Michèle Griffin, Policy Advisor of the UN...

International Migrants Day 2020: Inclusive policy and positive discourse on migration

In public discourse, migration is frequently approached as a problem. For some, it is a question of border control; for others, it is an economic issue, or a threat to national identity. This often makes it difficult to agree on migration policy and results in a lack...

40-plus former Presidents and Prime Ministers call for an International Anti-Corruption Court

May 25, 2022

Grand corruption has global dimensions and cannot be combatted by the affected countries alone.

Countering Authoritarianism: A conversation with Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya

May 25, 2022

Club de Madrid Member Vaira Vike-Freiberga also participated in the Q&A session, while warning that she has suffered a boycott attempt to the digital broadcasting of the event in her country.

2022: How Club de Madrid is supporting Multilateralism

Apr 22, 2022

The recent appointment of two of our Members to the United Nations High-Level Advisory Board on Effective Multilateralism is just a small example of Club de Madrid's work in this field, which is one of our most solid pillars. Our organization's efforts in this field go far beyond that, and have...

Ban Ki-Moon calls for a #GlobalConsensus in the fight against terrorism and violent extremism

Aug 11, 2016

Mr. Ban already addressed this idea at the closing session of Club de Madrid´s 2015 Policy Dialogue on Preventing and...

Kim Campbell will chair a new Advisory Board for appointing the Supreme Court of Canada

Aug 4, 2016

This independent and non-partisan Advisory Board, formed by seven members and chaired by Club de Madrid member Kim...

Laura Chinchilla at the ECOSOC: “We believe in societies that are not owned by one sector but belong to everyone”

Jul 22, 2016

She also addressed the urgency of thinking in 'infraestructures that respond for people's needs and respect the...

Club de Madrid condemns Istanbul’s rampage

Jun 29, 2016

Club de Madrid strongly condemns last night attack on Istanbul’s Ataturk International Airport that has killed at...

Club de Madrid publishes the summary of the Next Generation Democracy Sub-Saharan Africa Roundtable.

Jun 27, 2016

The conclusions of this Roundtable stressed that Sub-Saharan Africa has the capacity to accomplish its...

George Papandreu-Club de Madrid Q&A (part II): “I was also a refugee years ago”

Jun 23, 2016

WWhat should the EU do to tackle the migratory crisis? The European Union needs to live up both to its capacity...

Sixth High-Level Mission towards peaceful transition to Democracy in Myanmar

Jun 22, 2016

The aim of the mission was to build on the foundations laid during previous missions to advance a peaceful transition...

Global Peace Index Madrid Presentation: Conflict cost the global economy $13.6 billions last year.

Jun 21, 2016

This is the tenth edition of the Global Peace Index (GPI), which ranks the nations of the world according to their...

Mayors from South East Europe join in a Shared Societies effort

Jun 21, 2016

Hosted by the Major of Sarajevo(Bosnia & Herzegovina), it gathered majors from Belgrade (Serbia), Podgorica...