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News
- Regional
Workshops are now completed. (See below for summaries)
The Final Meeting of the Non-governmental Process
for the Community of Democracies, which had been
scheduled to take place in January, took place on March
3rd and 4th, 2005, in Santiago, Chile and convened
participants from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, the
Middle East, North America, and Russia and the NIS to discuss
the non governmental strategy for the months before the
Ministerial Meeting. Participants will have until May to
work with their governments and advocate for the Non-Governmental
proposals before the Santiago Ministerial Meeting,
which will take place on April 28th, 29th, and 30th
of 2005. To
read the summary of this conference, click here. A full
conference summary is upcoming; check back soon!
Planning
Activities leading up to the April 28-30th, 2005
Community of Democracies Ministerial Meeting in Santiago,
Chile:
- Credentials
and Invitations to Santiago 2005
- Regional
Workshops to be presented at Santiago 2005
- NGOs
attend Convening Group meetings in Washington, DC and Santiago,
Chile
Regional
Workshops (2004 - 2005):
The Community of Democracies, a group of more than one
hundred democratic countries in the world, will hold its Third
Ministerial Meeting in Santiago, Chile in May 2005 to discuss
ways to strengthen democracy. To prepare for that meeting,
civil society organizations in all of the regions of the world
are organizing workshops to identify “democracy deficits”
in their region and to offer proposals to the governments
on ways to strengthen democracy.
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