TerraViva – Civicus World Assembly: Jun. 18-21, Glasgow

“People, Participation and Power” –
What is the role of civil society? Why is our participation in the halls of power so strongly resisted? What is the importance of civil society involvement?
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Civil Society and the Media — Coalition or Clash?
Zarina Geloo
Having a media that is accessible to all is about meeting the needs of society as a whole and not always about embracing the most expensive or high tech advances.
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Getting to the Root of the Problem
Joyce Mulama
While aid is deemed necessary to achieve development, it is crucial for the public to know what the aid is being used for, says Elisa Peter, deputy coordinator of the UN Non-Governmental Liaison Service. ?It is important to involve voices of the people who need it most; when we take decisions that affect them in the first place. Most often, these voices are not considered and that is why aid money is sometimes misused.?
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A Little Effort Can Mean a Big Difference
Richel Langit-Dursin
The role of volunteering, citizenship and engaging in social change is the hot topic among young people. When asked what volunteering meant to them the answers were wide and varied. For some it described working with children, disaster management, manual labour, and environmental work. While for others it meant being jobless, doing charitable work, teaching, governance and inter-faith efforts. And a distinction was made between volunteering and social activism.
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Challenging the Concepts of Accountability
Nastasya Tay
Civil society demands transparency and accountability from governments, international organisations and decision-makers. In recent years, this process has increasingly turned inwards.
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Rich nations under scrutiny over MDGs
Joyce Mulama
Donor countries have been urged to honor their pledge of contributing 0.7 percent of their Gross National Income as development assistance to poor countries to help them achieve Millennium Development Goals by 2015.
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IPS-TerraViva’s team of journalists from Brazil, Chile, England, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Scotland, South Africa, Turkey and Zambia is covering this major civil society event, in partnership with Civicus and SCVO, the Scottish Council of Voluntary Organisations. A printed daily TerraViva newspaper will be distributed amongst participants and will also be available online.
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