Club de Madrid participates in conversation with UN Quaker Office on preventing violent conflicts
9 March, 2018
Launched in Washington D.C at the 2018 World Bank Fragility Forum, the report is the first joint study between the UN and the World Bank.
Four female world leaders call to action towards gender equaility on #IWD2018
9 March, 2018
Four female world leaders, all of them Members of Club de Madrid, have recorded and written messages of empowerment and action on the occasion of the International Women’s Day 2018 to recall every women (and men) in the world that gender equality is not an option, but a moral imperative.
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga on Women’s Day: “Dear girls & women: follow fearlessly the path that each of you have chosen as your own!”
8 March, 2018
International Women’s Day is a landmark for democracy. Women, and also men committed to democratic values and human rights and dignity, demonstrate and speak out loud, pursuing a better world for all. Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga, President of CdM, has shared with us a message of confidence and assertion in the fight for a democracy that delivers.
Club de Madrid Members Kok and Lagumdzija advocate for inclusive societies in London and Oxford
5 March, 2018
Zlatko Lagumdzija- former PM of Bosnia and Herzegovina – spoke atan event with the New Economics Foundation, and later on, along Wim Kok – former PM of The Netherlands – visited Westminster to advocate for the SDGs at the House of Lords
Club de Madrid Members will discuss Sustainable Development, Conflict Prevention and Migration at the World Bank Fragility Forum and at the United Nations
1 March, 2018
The mission will disseminate the key findings of our Shared Societies Project at fora seeking to contribute to the Global Compact for Migration. We will take advantage of the optimum opportunity to engage with processes being undertaken by the Global Community.
Populism, political mistrust and misinformation in the digital era, main topics of the NGD America Round Table in San Francisco
27 February, 2018
Club de Madrid Members Vaira Vike-Freiberga, Kim Campbell, Jean Chrétien and Jorge Quiroga led the discussions in the thought-provoking NGD America roundtable, organized in San Francisco (25-26 February) in partnership with Newco and the support of the Alan B. Slifka Foundation.
Is democracy in peril? Five CdM members to address North America Democracy in San Francisco
23 February, 2018
The Club de Madrid delegation will participate in two events, to be held in San Francisco, focused on the state of democracy: the Next Generation Democracy North America Roundtable (25, 26 February) and the Newco Shift Forum (26).
Zapatero: “Cape Verde can lead the revolution for women’s rights in Africa”
22 February, 2018
Former Spanish PM and CdM member, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, travelled to Cape Verde to support the inclusion of female domestic workers in the formal economy as part of the EU project INSPIRED+.
Leonel Fernández: “Democracy is the only universal guarantee of human dignity and fundamental rights”
19 February, 2018
In the interview, Mr. Fernández makes an assessment of recent events which affected democratic development in his region, Latin America.
Former Spanish PM to lead Cape Verde mission to promote the rights of domestic workers
19 February, 2018
Its main goal is to promote the labour rights of women who work in the domestic service, making it a topic of public debate.
In memoriam: Ruud Lubbers, a life committed to public service
15 February, 2018
Former Prime Minister of The Netherlands, Ruud Lubbers, has passed away at the age of 78. He was the longest serving PM in his country, where he led three different governments
A tribute to Asma Jahangir, a champion for the disenfranchised
12 February, 2018
The prominent human rights defender died at the age of 66. Now we are saddened, but tomorrow, and always, will be inspired by her example.
Vaira Vike-Freiberga delivers inspiring speech focusing on the dangers of a changing society to Arizona State University students
31 January, 2018
In an all-encompassing lecture, Vike-Freiberga offered practical advice and encouraged young millennials to get involved in politics and societal affairs through a domestic or global lens.
Seventeen Club de Madrid Members meet Xi Jinping in Beijing
20 December, 2017
A delegation of seventeen Members of Club de Madrid met with the President of China on the 30th of November in Beijing. The almost two hours long conversation focused on how to strengthen a new global governance system and China’s perspective. This meeting was the final act of the Imperial Springs International Forum, held in Guangzhou 28-29 November.
Club de Madrid discusses the current global system and governance at the Imperial Springs Forum in China
23 November, 2017
The discussion, to be held from the 29th-30th November in Guangdong, China, will focus on the challenges of multilateralism and the China’s perspective, and it will address issues of peace and security, trade and finance and environmental sustainability.
Club de Madrid & Breathrough Media partners with the EU to improve counter-narrative responses
13 November, 2017
Former Prime Minister of Tunisia and Club de Madrid Member, Hamadi Jebali, and Joëlle Milquet, Special Advisor to the President of the European Commission on victims of Terrorism and former Belgian Deputy Prime Minister, will address the meeting, to be held in the Brussels Press Club Europe next Wednesday, 15th of November.
