TOPICS
Advancing Gender Equality and Women’s Rights
ROAD to Beijing +30
Digitalisation and Good Governance
Club de Madrid and the Boston Global Forum held a series of discussions and a Policy Lab to address further questions related to tech governance. This ongoing collaboration focuses on how digital technologies and AI are creating new opportunities for the enjoyment of human rights, as well as new threats to their protection.
Global Commission on Democracy and Emergencies
COVID-19 erupted in the context of a crisis of democracy long in the making.
Information Integrity and the Future of Democracy
As citizens turn to their phones and tablets to get their news, information distributed through social media and online outlets becomes increasingly influential in configuring political perceptions.
Peer-to-Peer Leadership Support
Political leaders around the world rely on their own resources – their political abilities, their networks and their creativity – to meet the challenges of democracy, governance and inclusion.
ACTIONS
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11 July, 2024
Honour African Anti-Corruption Day by Committing to Create an International Anti-Corruption Court
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2 April, 2024
Club de Madrid addresses climate change challenge in its Leadership for Net Zero report
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23 November, 2022
Leadership for Net Zero at COP27
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27 May, 2022
Tarja Halonen visited Cape Verde to fight against gender based violence
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2 November, 2021
Policy Dialogue 2021 Concluding Document: Our Commitment to Democracy
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7 May, 2020
Live Session: A New Social Contract in the Age of AI – Protection of Privacy Rights in the Times of COVID-19
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19 November, 2019
Leterme moderates debate with young people seeking to shape policymaking in Med region
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30 September, 2019
Club de Madrid commemorates 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall analyzing the current state of democracy
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11 June, 2019
UN Secretary-General’s High-level Panel calls for global cooperation around digital technologies
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22 April, 2019
Club de Madrid discusses links between online information and declining trust in democratic institutions
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10 March, 2019
Danilo Türk leads mission in Georgia to spur reform in labour mediation mechanisms
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26 February, 2019
Danilo Türk supports women’s access to labour market in Armenia
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23 November, 2018
Laura Chinchilla gives impulse to fight against violence towards women in Paraguay
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10 November, 2018
Petre Roman raises awareness over economic rights of persons with disabilities in Mongolia
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23 October, 2018
Former PM of Romania Petre Roman supports the rights of disabled people in Mongolia
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31 August, 2018
Anna Lindh Foundation, Club de Madrid and MEDAC flagship: “Young Mediterranean Voices” Programme
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31 August, 2018
Guy Verhofstadt: “In a world where an algorithm determines all outcomes, politics no longer exits.”
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26 June, 2018
Kjell Magne Bondevik led a mission to Kyrgyzstan to support inclusion of persons with disabilities in the labour market
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23 February, 2018
Is democracy in peril? Five CdM members to address North America Democracy in San Francisco
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15 September, 2014
Club de Madrid launches Next Generation Democracy to respond to signals of democratic decline
PUBLICATIONS
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Club de Madrid organized a regional meeting in Montevideo, Uruguay, titled
“Transformative Leadership and Inclusive Democracy” at the Spanish
Cooperation Training Center (AECID). This meeting gathered leaders from
Latin America and Spain, and experts from international organizations to share
strategies and experiences to promote inclusive, violence-free democracies.
Political women, senators, representatives, mayors, and ministers,
participated with the commitment to advance substantive equality in
decision making spaces. During the meeting, various historical and structural
barriers that hinder equal political participation were identified, and concrete
experiences of political parity and inclusive governments were shared,
addressing the challenges women face at all levels of representation,and the
strategies used to overcome them.
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Club de Madrid organizó en Montevideo el encuentro regional “Liderazgo
Transformador y Democracia Inclusiva” en el Centro de Formación de la
Cooperación Española (AECID). Este espacio reunió a líderes y lideresas de
América Latina y España, junto con expertas de organizaciones
internacionales, para compartir experiencias y estrategias que promuevan
democracias inclusivas y libres de violencia.
Participaron mujeres políticas de la región, senadoras, diputadas, alcaldesas
y ministras, comprometidas con impulsar la igualdad sustantiva desde los
espacios de decisión. Durante el encuentro se identificaron barreras históricas
y estructurales que aún limitan la plena participación política de las mujeres,
y se compartieron experiencias concretas de liderazgo paritario y gobiernos
inclusivos, abordando retos que enfrentan las mujeres en distintos niveles de
representación y las estrategias que impulsan para eliminarlos.
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Club de Madrid convened a Global Commission on Democracy and Emergencies to analyze different responses to the COVID-19 crisis and offer recommendations to improve democracy’s capacity to function, deliver, be trusted and come out of an emergency unscathed. Executive Summary in Spanish.
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Club de Madrid convened a Global Commission on Democracy and Emergencies to analyze different responses to the COVID-19 crisis and offer recommendations to improve democracy’s capacity to function, deliver, be trusted and come out of an emergency unscathed. Executive Summary in French.
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Club de Madrid convened a Global Commission on Democracy and Emergencies to analyze different responses to the COVID-19 crisis and offer recommendations to improve democracy’s capacity to function, deliver, be trusted and come out of an emergency unscathed. Executive Summary in English.
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The paper ‘Mechanisms of Democracy and Fundamental Rights’ was led by International IDEA as part of Club de Madrid’s Global Commission on Democracy and Emergencies Working Group 1.
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Club de Madrid convened a Global Commission on Democracy and Emergencies to analyze different responses to the COVID-19 crisis and offer recommendations to improve democracy’s capacity to function, deliver, be trusted and come out of an emergency unscathed.
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The paper ‘Effective Leadership and Democratic Culture’ was led by Edelman as part of Club de Madrid’s Global Commission on Democracy and Emergencies Working Group 3.
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The paper ‘Responding with equality’ was led by Oxfam as part of Club de Madrid’s Global Commission on Democracy and Emergencies Working Group 2.
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This document results from the Global Governance for Information Integrity Roundtable held in September 2018
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Track II. Business & Economy. Asia-Oceania
Trends and transformative practices to advance democracy from an economic perspective
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Track II. Business & Economy. Sub-Saharan Africa
Trends and transformative practices to advance democracy from an economic perspective
