Club de Madrid Articles

WYDE Network of Young Decision-makers activities in Berlin

Our young leaders met in the German capital and shared our project with the local authorities and politicians

International Financial Architecture Reform and Financing for Development (IFA-FfD)

Recent years have witnessed unprecedented turmoil affecting both human and planetary well-being. Climate change, coupled with challenges such as war, poverty, digitalization, and inequality, has created a global crisis that demands immediate, decisive, and collective...

Club de Madrid Secretary General Visits Abu Dhabi to Strengthen Engagement with UAE

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 10 April 2024. Club de Madrid, the independent, non-partisan, non-profit organisation created to promote good governance, global cooperation, dialogue and advocacy on issues of global concern, embarked on a visit to strengthen its...

Michelle Bachelet becomes Vice-President of Club de Madrid and Moussa Mara joins the Board of Directors

The former President of Chile and former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights takes over from Laura Chinchilla at the world’s largest forum of former democratic presidents and prime ministers, which Sanna Marin also joined in April 2024

Conversations For Change – Manuel Muñiz

Nov 5, 2024

Our Advisor, Manuel Muñiz, discusses the challenges to democracy and urges young people to actively defend human rights and promote civic participation.

UNGA 2024: Financing for Development

Oct 11, 2024

Our Members, Advisors and participants of the WYDE Network of Young Decision-makers travelled to New York to advance Club de Madrid programming and share key messages during UNGA week.

Accelerating SDG Progress Through Financing of Triangular Cooperation

Sep 20, 2024

UN Member States reaffirmed their commitment to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, emphasizing the importance of triangular cooperation and adequate financing to accelerate progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Multilateralism Must Deliver: Club de Madrid’s contributions to Our Common Agenda

Nov 9, 2021

The largest forum of former Heads of State and Government working to strengthen democratic practice holds a press conference in the United Nations on Wednesday, November 10th at 11:00 am NY time.

Live Session: Building trust between citizens and public institutions in emergency situations

Oct 1, 2021

This session will be held in Spanish with English interpretation. See below a summary of the Live Session in English....

President Türk discusses state of democracy in podcast with Bertelsmann Foundation

Sep 15, 2021

Club de Madrid and Bertelsmann Foundation join forces to produce a podcast & video on the state of democracy worldwide. Both organisations are partnering in Club de Madrid’s Annual Policy Dialogue 2021 ‘Rethinking Democracy’.

20 years since the Inter-American Democratic Charter: Present and future of democracy in the Americas

Sep 7, 2021

This Live Session will be in Spanish. Read below the event's information in Spanish. For the past 20 years, the...

Democracy in Practice: A podcast series by Club de Madrid

Aug 29, 2021

We are pleased to launch our first podcast series! 'Democracy in Practice' gathers the voices of our Members, all...

Live Session: Delivering for youth in emergency response and recovery-How to make democracy fit-for-purpose to meet the needs of young people?

Aug 20, 2021

COVID-19 has cast a spotlight on the difficulty faced by democracies around the world to deliver and meet the needs of...