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Shared Global Governance: What The CIA Has Taught Us Not To Do
Written by Peter Hagen
Peter Hagen asks what happens when the separate worlds of global politics and the work of Civil Society Organisations come together.
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NGOs in Colombia: a long way from heaven but a little further from hell
Written by Amaya Querejazu
In Latin America one can say that the distance between government elites and the people has been historically large. The term “citizenship” is still a work in process, but the organization of civil society has become stronger over the past decade. Whether this is an outcome of globalization […]
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Civil Society Participation and UN Women
Written by Tom Fries
Globalsister.org presses for a role for civil society as advisors and actors in the functioning of UN Women. Read more
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How well-represented is the average person, or the average dollar?
Written by Tom Fries
Consider the three pie charts below, which show (1) the percentage of NGOs at the UN headquartered in OECD nations, G77 nations, or nations that are neither OECD nor G77 members against (2) the percentage of world population living in each group and (3) the percentage of world GDP (by […]
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Civil society self-correcting
Written by Tom Fries
Nonkosi Khumalo, the chairperson of Treatment Action Campaign South Africa, asks whether African civil society has “lost the plot” in its efforts to encourage stronger international action on the AIDS crisis in Africa. Read more
