Anna Lindh Foundation, Club de Madrid and MEDAC flagship: “Young Mediterranean Voices” Programme
31 August, 2018
To support participants to work together in a fresh and exciting way, with a focus on tackling a common challenge relevant to societies to the south and north of the Mediterranean.
Guy Verhofstadt: “In a world where an algorithm determines all outcomes, politics no longer exits.”
31 August, 2018
CdM proposes to leverage the political influence of its Members to guide future actions in this area through its new project on Information Integrity and the Future of Democracy.
Open letter: Response to the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration
27 August, 2018
The Members of Club de Madrid feel that they can make a particular contribution to these issues especially through their Shared Societies Project, which has been working for ten years to address inter-group tensions of every kind.
Club de Madrid mourns the loss of Kofi Annan
19 August, 2018
As the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1997 to 2006, he was a relentless champion for human rights, development and the rule of law.
Pew Research Center study finds worrying mistrust towards democratic institutions in Western Europe
20 July, 2018
populist parties incite the shattering of established parties and intellectual ideas that uphold today’s forms of power and hegemony.
Shared Societies presented as tool to counteract fears over globalisation at Symi Symposium
16 July, 2018
A specific session on Globalisation and the Role of Shared Societies was chaired by South African Human Rights activist Kumi Naidoo and included as the main speaker WLA-CdM Member Zlatko Lagumdzija.
Kjell Magne Bondevik led a mission to Kyrgyzstan to support inclusion of persons with disabilities in the labour market
26 June, 2018
Kyrgyz Prime Minister Muhammetkaliy Abulgaziyev said in a meeting with PM Bondevik that government is “taking first steps” to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Cassam Uteem highlights inclusive approach to SDGs implementation at UN Public Service Forum
25 June, 2018
The implementation of Agenda 2030 requires a paradigm shift in culture and routine of public servants. Club de Madrid Member Cassam Uteem spoke on how the Shared Societies project can foster this transformation
Former PM of Norway Kjell Magne Bondevik will support the rights of disabled people in Kyrgyzstan
18 June, 2018
The CdM member will meet with PM Abulgaziyev and push for a Roadmap for Reform
Zlatko Lagumdzija attends UN High Level Meeting on sustaining peace
3 May, 2018
Zlatko Lagumdzija attended the United Nations High Level Meeting on Peacebuilding and Sustaining Peace.
Club de Madrid kicks off new initiative on Shared Societies and education
12 April, 2018
Its main outcome is expected to be a clear and strong Call to Action on Education for Shared Societies, seeking to mobilise political will to generate action in this context.
“Leaders can promote small projects that can change the lives of ordinary people”, says Club de Madrid in Shared Societies mission to World Bank and UN
27 March, 2018
The Fragility Forum, a gathering organized by the World Bank from 5th to 7th March, which considers how to support fragile states.
Laura Chinchilla, new Vice President of Club de Madrid
15 March, 2018
Former President of Costa Rica, Laura Chinchilla, has been appointed to be new Vice President of World Leadership Alliance – Club de Madrid (WLA – CdM).
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.
