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Have you ever thought you have something to “express” with a social dimension but never had the opportunity to do it?

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  • Three mediums to choose from: TEXT, VIDEO, PHOTO
  • A way to express your ideas, reflections and expertise, on social issues and broader development and society at large
  • You do not need to be an expert but just passionate about what you share

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Due diligence: MEPs adopt rules for firms on human rights and environment
By: Simone Galimberti
25 April, 2024
Due diligence: MEPs adopt rules for firms on human rights and environment
By: Simone Galimberti
25 April, 2024
Celebrating IDSDP 2024 with TeamUp and Partners
By: Simone Galimberti
25 April, 2024
TRUE MEDIA
By: Simone Galimberti
25 April, 2024
New report shows Southeast Asian parliamentarians remain at risk despite democratic trappings
By: Simone Galimberti
25 April, 2024
UNESCAP 80TH COMMISSION SESSSION
By: Simone Galimberti
23 April, 2024
YOUTH EMPOWERMENT IN CLIMATE ACTION PLATFORM (22-23 April 2024,)
By: Simone Galimberti
23 April, 2024
Synthetic Politics: Preparing democracy for Generative AI
By: Simone Galimberti
22 April, 2024
DEMOCRACY NEXT NEWSLETTER: What just happened in Ireland? Plus Claudia Chwalisz in conversation with Lawrence Lessig
By: Simone Galimberti
22 April, 2024
A year of suffering for Sudanese women and girls
By: Simone Galimberti
22 April, 2024
EUROPEAN Council unanimously endorses revised Waste Shipment regulation – including full non-OECD plastic waste ban
By: Simone Galimberti
22 April, 2024
Landmark Court Ruling Upholds Right to Healthy Environment
By: Simone Galimberti
19 April, 2024
IAVE WVC Busan: JOIN IAVE IN SOUTH KOREA THIS OCTOBER!
By: Simone Galimberti
19 April, 2024
Disability Inclusion in Peacebuilding, May 1, USIP EVENT
By: Simone Galimberti
19 April, 2024
Echoing Green: Meet the 84 Finalists for this year's Fellowship!
By: Simone Galimberti
19 April, 2024
The Catalytic Climate Finance Facility (CC Facility)' s CALL FOR PROPOSAL
By: Simone Galimberti
18 April, 2024
SOS MEDITERRANEE: New video with testimony of survivors who were violently intercepted by the Libyan Coastguard.
By: Simone Galimberti
18 April, 2024
The spirit of continuous improvement is at the heart of the B Corp movement
By: Simone Galimberti
18 April, 2024
Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the face of climate change, poverty and hunger in the Asia-Pacific region
By: Simone Galimberti
18 April, 2024
APHR Co-Chair and former Malaysian member of parliament Charles Santiago responding to the news of the forced conscription of Rohingya by the Myanmar military junta
By: Simone Galimberti
18 April, 2024
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Press Release: European roadmap shows path towards common lifting of containment measures

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 15Apr
The European Commission, the executive branch of the EU is coming up with a road map, a set of criteria that should help the member states to decide when to ease the lock down. Here the key criteria to decide: 1) spread of the disease has significantly decreased and stabilised for a sustained period, 2) Sufficient health system capacity, 3) Appropriate monitoring capacity
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PRESS RELEASE: Sanofi and GSK join forces to fight COVID-19 BY EMMA WALMSLEY, CEO, GSK

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 15Apr
Sanofi and GSK announced on 14 April 2020 that they will work together on the development of a new, adjuvanted vaccine for COVID-19.Once a vaccine will be developed, the two companies, two of the biggest pharma companies in the world, will be able to produce hundred of billions of vaccine and they are committed not to profit from this initiative.
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PRESS RELEASE: THE UN WORLD TOURISM ORGANIZATION HIGHLIGHTS THE ROLE OF TOURISM IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 15Apr
The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) has released a set of recommendations calling for urgent and strong support to help the global tourism sector not only recover from the unprecedented challenge of COVID-19 but to ‘grow back better’.
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PRESS RELEASE: £100 million response announced to help social sector organisations through the coronavirus crisis in UK

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 15Apr
New lending facilities will provide much-needed finance to charities and social enterprises, and small businesses in disadvantaged parts of the UK
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PRESS RELEASE: The First 100 Days of the COVID-19 Outbreak in Asia and the Pacific: A Gender Lens

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 15Apr
This report presents a snapshot of the gender dimensions of the socio-economic impacts of the pandemic and captures promising practices for integrating gender in preparedness and response planning while proposing potential and entry points to mitigate the socio-economic impacts for women and girls in the region.
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Peace and the pandemic: the impact of COVID-19 on conflict in Asia ( BY Adam Burke, DEVPOLICY BLOG)

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 15Apr
According to Adam Burke, The Asia Foundation’s director of Conflict and Fragility, " makes existing conflicts in Asia less predictable". The Author analyzed some trends in the region, showing how conflicts can get exacerbated by covid. The Author also highlights how "Coordination and collaboration, two essential elements in addressing a pandemic, are especially hard to achieve in conflict zone".
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From the IMF: The Great Lockdown: Worst Economic Downturn Since the Great Depression ( BY Gita Gopinath)

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 15Apr
"The world has changed dramatically in the three months since our last update of the World Economic Outlook in January. A rare disaster, a coronavirus pandemic, has resulted in a tragically large number of human lives being lost. As countries implement necessary quarantines and social distancing practices to contain the pandemic, the world has been put in a Great Lockdown. "
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IDA's letter to World Health Organisation in response to the #COVID19 pandemic

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 14Apr
Press Release: The International Disability Alliance is pushing hard to have persons with disabilities at the center of the pandemic response not just in terms of support needed but also as engaged and active in the fight against.
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Secretary-General's Appeal for Global Ceasefire ( 23rd March)

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 14Apr
The Secretary General launched the idea of a Global Ceasefire.
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FROM THE UNITED NATIONS: The Impact of COVID-19 on Women

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 14Apr
" The pandemic is deepening pre-existing inequalities, exposing vulnerabilities in social, political and economic systems which are in turn amplifying the impacts of the pandemic". "Limited gains made in the past decades’ toward gender equality ‘are at risk of being rolled back’. The report suggests priorities on how to reverse this.
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Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) DEMOCRACY REPORT 2020 is out

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 14Apr
Press Release: the 2020 V-Dem Institute report is highlighting how autocracies are growing BIG TIME in this new era but as the same time, resistance movements are scaling up as well. The V-Dem Institute is an independent research institute and the Headquarters of the project based at the Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
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STATEMENT: Canada set up COVID-19 Disability Advisory Group BY The Honourable Carla Qualtrough, Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Disability Inclusion

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 13Apr
The Group will provide advice on the real-time lived experiences of persons with disabilities during this crisis; disability-specific issues, challenges and systemic gaps; and strategies, measures and steps to be taken. Areas of particular focus will be equality of access to health care and supports; access to information and communications, mental health and social isolation...
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PRESS RELEASE FROM THE EUROGROUP: Report on the comprehensive economic policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 10Apr
Yesterday night the finance ministers of the EU countries who have adopted the EURO found a compromise to relaunch the post covid 19 reconstruction. The so called eurobonds, a debt mutualization tool sought by Italy, Spain and France were not included but the final agreed text leaves space for further negotiations between the Heads of States in the days to come.
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PRESS RELEASE: African Union reaffirms its unwavering support to WHO

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 10Apr
Cyril Ramaphosa, President of South Africa and Chairperson of the African Union, reaffirms how Africa believes in the work and in the mandate of the WHO.
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PRESS RELEASE : In times of crisis, solidarity between workers and employers is paramount( ILO)

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 10Apr
The study, Managing Conflicts and Disasters: Exploring Collaboration between Employers’ and Workers’ Organizations , highlights specific cases where joint (and sometimes spontaneous) actions taken by social partners helped to mitigate some of the worst consequences of natural and human-made disasters
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PRESS RELEASE: Half a billion people could be pushed into poverty by coronavirus (oxfam)

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 10Apr
The economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic could push half a billion more people into poverty unless urgent action is taken to bail out developing countries, said Oxfam today.
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Resilient Health Systems: What we are learning from the COVID-19 crisis by Francesca Colombo,

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 09Apr
This op-ed piece written by Francesca Colombo, Head, Health Division, Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs, OECD highlights: 1) need to strengthen disease surveillance mechanisms and health information infrastructures, 2) importance of having adaptable health systems, 3) strengthened co-ordination across countries
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Q&A: Global EU response to the coronavirus pandemic

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 09Apr
PRESS RELEASE: clarification on the EU global response to covid 19
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HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: COVID-19’s Devastating Impact on Children

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 09Apr
PRESS RELEASE: The COVID-19 crisis has a potentially far-reaching, long-term negative impact on children around the world, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.
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IN THE PROCESS OF SOUTH ASIAN INTEGRATION, INDIA SHOULD LEARN TO LEAD FROM THE BACK

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 09Apr
The symbolic coordination of the SAARC nations in the fight against corona virus should bring India to rethink her leadership strategy to bring forward the process of regional integration.
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