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The Community of Democracies

The ISC/CD is the recognized representative of civil society in the Community of Democracies process. Through regular interaction with member governments, participation in CD Working Groups, and support for the implementation of reforms to make the CD more effective, the ISC/CD plays an essential role in the functioning of the Community.

  • Krakow High Level Democracy Meeting
  • Updates on CD Working Groups
  • Civil Society Recommendations for the Lithuanian Chairmanship
  • More

Report on CD Working Groups at the July 2010 High Level
Democracy Meeting in Krakow, Poland
 
Global Civil Society Networking  
To strengthen the voice of global civil society within the Community of Democracies, the ISC/CD is constantly striving to widen its network of civil society leaders around the world. The ISC/CD is currently engaged in a second series of regional civil society roundtables, which identify regional issues facing democracy and human rights and develop recommendations to the Community of Democracies governments.

Participants in the February 2010 Pretoria Civil Society
Roundtable on Democracy in Africa
 
Democracy Education  

Through a series of three workshops, the ISC/CD developed the Global Strategic Plan for Democracy Education. In partnership with educational and policy experts, these meetings identified the needs of an educational system that recognizes a citizen's understanding of his or her democratic system as essential to the survival of that system. Education for democracy continues to be among the most important issues promoted by the ISC/CD in the Community of Democracies and within individual countries.

  • The Global Strategic Plan for Democracy Education (2003)
  • Democracy Education in the Middle East and Muslim Africa (2005)
  • Implementing the Global Strategic Plan for Democracy Education (2008)

The September 2008 Workshop on Implementing the Global
Strategic Plan for Democracy Education, held at the
Pocantico Conference Center of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund
 
Statements and Speeches  

Wherever democracy and human rights are threatened, the ISC/CD recognizes the need for recognition of these challenges and condemnation of efforts to suppress civil society. The ISC/CD issues statements to bring to light the many struggles of democracy activists around the world and calls on governments to take steps to protect the rights of civil society as enshrined in the Warsaw Declaration and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

  • International Civil Society Condemns Denial of Activists' Participation in Global Democracy Meeting in Poland (July 2010)
  • Speech of ISC Chair Paul Graham to the High Level Democracy Meeting in Krakow (July 2010)
  • ISC/CD Statement on Imprisonment of Chee Soon Juan in Singapore (January 2010)
  • More

Morton Halperin speaks at the March 2009 seminar on the
impacts of the global economic crisis on democracy
promotion, hosted by the Portuguese Foreign Ministry

 

 

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