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June 26th, 2012 : democracy,  an agenda in common

6/26/2012

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From left to right :  Dmitri Marchenkov,  Keith Whitmore, Anne-Marie Chavanon, Jean-Marie Heydt, Alfonso Zardi, Israel Mensah, Anje Wiersinga

Towards an "Agenda in Common" in the Democracy field at the Council of Europe - A round table with the participation of Keith WHITMORE, President of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe, Jean-Marie HEYDT, President of he Conference of INGOs and Alfonso ZARDI, Head of the Democracy, Institutions and Governance Department of the organisation, presented the commitments of the three bodies for 2012.

During its summer session, the committee  adressed a most important  issue for its future work in the frame of the quadrilogue :  how to contribute and share the agenda in commun wished by the last two presidencies of the Council of Europe (Spain and UK) in the democracy field
  • The Council of Europe  2012 Commitments on Democracy were presented by the Congress, the CDLR and the Conference of INGOs
  • Giuseppe GUARNERI, Head of the Ad hoc Working Group, presented the  Chart on Democracy project ,one of the  Committee’s contributions to the World Forum for Democracy  and the European Democracy Week

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UNCSD - RIO + 20 - :
Among the Major 2012 Global issues, the committee listened to three viewpoints by Cyril RITCHIE, President of the Conference of UN-NGOs, Maguelonne DEJEANT-PONS, Head of the Heritage, Landscape and technical Assistance Division  of the Council of Europe and Anne-Marie CHAVANON, Delegate from the International Federation for Housing and Planning (IFHP) – Committee’s Contribution
 (link to the declaration adopted by the committee)


UNFCCC - DOHA Conférence des Nations Unies sur le Changement climatique – Qatar (26 Novembre  –
 7 Decembre 2012) – The chair informs the committee of the proposition of the Parlimentary assembly of a commun work to the Conference


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Gender equality : a condition for success of the Arab Spring

The committee supported the appeal launched by the IFHR  through the adoption of a resolution and a recommendation to the member states (texts presented by Anje WIERSINGA, Head of the Working group on "Including Gender perspectives in political and democratic processes, in particular during and after conflicts” )

Report on the Committee’s working groups activity

- Climate Change and Human Rights (Edith WENGER) link
-  European Citizenship (Hélène DUQUIN) link
-  Health Risks and Mobility, a Global Challenge (Thierry MATHIEU)
-  Housing and Health (Bernard AUBERT) link
-  Landscape, a social Cohesion Tool at Threat (Gerhard ERMISCHER) link
- Migrations and democracy: situation, problems and provided examples of answers (Jean-Claude GONON) link
-  Relations with EU Bodies of Civil Society (Claude-Laurent GENTY) link
-  Social and political evolutions in Southern Mediterranian Countries (JP ESTIVAL) link
- Women's participation in political and democratic processes particularly dealing with  conflicts (Anje WIERSINGA) link
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Representations or the Committee and/or the Conference of INGOs

-  European Committee on Local and Regional Democracy (CDLR) -  2-3 April  2012 - Anne-Marie Chavanon
-  European Steering Committee for Youth and Advisory Council on Youth mars2012 -  Israel MENSAH
-  Steering Committee for Culture, Heritage and Landscape (CDCPP): 15 – 16 mai 2012 - Patrice COLLIGNON (RED), Gerhardt ERMISCHER (CIVILSCAPE)
- European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) – Hearing of Anne-Marie CHAVANON and Antonella VALMORBIDA (ALDA)
-    Sub/committee of the parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe – 23 mai 2012 - Paris – Audition d’Anne-Marie CHAVANON on the Committee’s contributions to Rio and Doha Summits
- International Observatory on participatory democracy (OIDP) – 12 Jun 2012 - Porto Alegre (Brésil) – Participation to a round table - Anne-Marie CHAVANON

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RIO+20 - UN Conference : two written contributions and various representations of the Committee

6/13/2012

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International Observatory of Participatory Democracy

6/12/2012

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Porto Alegre (Brazil) : 12 April 2012
The quadrilogue and the Code of Good Practice for citizen's participation to the decision making have been presented to the Congress by Anne-Marie Chavanon, chair of the Committee

The Conference gave an impressive demonstration of participatory budgeting, field in which Porto Alegre is a world leader.

Video (Brazilian Portuguese)

http://www.coe.int/t/ngo/Source/Code_French_final.pdf


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    Living together in multicultural societies : respect, dialogue, interaction

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    The European Local Democracy Week (ELDW) is organized, every year, in October in Europe and beyond. It offers an opportunity to joint actions with local and regional authorities and involvement of citizens

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