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UNESCO General Conference – NGO Space

The NGO space as been organized in the heart of the public areas of the General Conference, on the ground floor of Fontenoy building – Miró 2 space.

It was both an information point and a meeting place.

Every day, different NGOS ran stands all day long and made an oral presentation of their activities

Presentations and mini-debates about the work of the General Conference or the collective work of NGOs driven by the NGO-UNESCO Liaison Committee were held throughout the duration of the General Conference. These debates was addressed to NGO representatives, but are also opened to other participants in the Conference.

pdficonsm Provisional Programme of Activities of the NGO Space

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Membres du Comité de Liaison présents à la Conférence Générale

Members of the Liaison Committee attending the General Conference

NGO Action day on Climate Change

The NGO Action day on Climate Change took place on the 6th of October 2015.

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This event, organized by the NGO- UNESCO Liaison Committee and its Climate Change working group included 70 representatives of NGOs from 26 countries holding official relations with the UNESCO. The aim of the day was to unite NGOs to map, share and raise awareness about each organization’s actions on climate change and to develop a common declaration on climate change to be presented to the COP21.

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Opened by Martine Levy, president of the NGO-UNESCO Liaison Committee and with key note speaker Peter Dogse, Co-Chair UNESCO Task Force on COP21 and Climate Change, the event saw speeches from a panel of experts :

  • Renée Gerard, Former international official UNDP and UNICEF, Vice Honorary President UWE / UWE, Member of the IAW / AIF extended board, and MSc Columbia University (New York) postgraduate NYU,
  • Paul Winter, activist for International Voluntary Service and legal expert , and
  • Marc Delepouve, Professor of Mathematics and researcher on the relation between research and Society, Member of the Scité ( a research team of Lille University), Co-animator of the working group Democratic Energy Transition of Akademia/Transform (An European Researchers network).

They provided participants with crucial data on Climate Change and answered their questions.

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The NGOs presented their organizations, networked, discussed and debated their different actions before participating in a World Café that had been prepared thanks to a survey sent out by email prior to the event. The feedback from this World Café was presented in plenary by the facilitators of each table before moving on to the reading and correcting of the common declaration.

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A team of volunteers shall include the proposed corrections and it shall be published on the NGO-UNESCO Liaison Committee website in November.

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International Conference of Non-Governmental Organizations

The International Conference of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) took place at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris (France) from 15 to 17 December 2014.

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It focused on “Culture and Cultures: reconciling universality and diversity”. It focused on the theme “Re-enchanting the World with the Post-2015 Development Agenda”.

It was organized around four subthemes:

  • “The Involvement of NGOs for the Promotion of Quality Education in the Post-2015 Agenda”;
  • “Water and Sustainable Development: From Awareness-Raising to Decision-Making”;
  • “Enhancing Cultural Heritage and Fostering the Diversity of Cultural Expression”; and
  • “Climate Change: Acting Now”.

This Conference gathers 120 non-governmental organizations in official partnership with UNESCO and about 340 participants. Moreover, representatives of Member States of UNESCO and numerous other NGOs and foundations in official relations also attended the Conference as observers.

Eric FALT, ADG ERI, Irina BOKOVA, Directrice générale et Patrick GALLAUD, Président de la Conférence des ONG

The Conference provided a welcome opportunity to examine collective NGO action carried out in 2013 and 2014, and adopt the main lines of collective cooperation for 2015-2016. At the outcome of the Conference, NGO participants adopted a final resolution, which you will find below.

pdficonsm Final resolution adopted by the International conference of NGO

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Participants were also called upon to elect a new Chairperson for the Conference, as well as a new NGO-UNESCO Liaison Committee. The new composition of the Liaison Committee is given below.

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pdficonsm Report of the elections

The International Conference of NGOs brings together all of UNESCO’s NGOs in official partnership with UNESCO every two years. It is a key forum in which UNESCO’s official NGO partners meet and hold discussions, its primary purpose being to “review the state of cooperation with UNESCO […] and facilitate cooperation between organizations having common interests”.

On the other hand, please find herewith the Call for Peace distributed by some NGOs at the International Conference of NGOs.

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Re-enchanting the World with the Post 2015 Development Agenda

“Re-enchanting the World with the Post 2015 Development Agenda” will be the teme of the 2014 International Conference of Non-Governmental Organization that will take place at UNESCO’s Headquarters in Paris (France) from 15 to 17 December 2014.

You will find on this website the invitation letter to the Conference together with the registration form, provisional agenda, Rules of Procedure, and a general information brochure.

For those documents and more information, please go to the page : NGOs International Conference 2014

Third International Forum of NGOs in official partnership with UNESCO

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We are pleased to invite you to attend the third International Forum of NGOs in official partnership with UNESCO, on the theme “The role of youth in the safeguarding of tangible and intangible cultural heritage”, which will take place in Sofia and Sozopol (Bulgaria) from 28 to 30 September 2014. The Forum’s theme falls within UNESCO’s priorities in the field of protecting and safeguarding cultural heritage, as well as within the UNESCO’s Operational Strategy for Youth 2014-2021.

Organized by the NGO-UNESCO Liaison Committee in close cooperation with the UNESCO Secretariat, in accordance with the Directives on UNESCO’s partnership with non-governmental organizations (36 C/Res. 108) and with the support of Sozopol Foundation, the Forum is intended primarily for NGOs in official partnership with the Organization, but is open also to other NGOs and institutions, as well as to representatives of Member States. A strong presence of youth representatives will be particularly welcome.  and Sozopol (Bulgaria) from 28 to 30 September 2014. The Forum’s theme falls within UNESCO’s priorities in the field of protecting and safeguarding cultural heritage, as well as within the UNESCO’s Operational Strategy for Youth 2014-2021.

Working documents and reports for the Forum are available on this web site at the following page : Forum on “The role of youth in the safeguarding of tangible and intangible cultural heritage”.

International Day of Peace Event

In honor of the celebration of the International Day of Peace at UNESCO, the NGO-UNESCO Liaison Committee with the participation of the UNESCO Social and Human Sciences Sectora nd the Ensemble Calliopée organize the 19 september 2014 at the UNESCO Headquarter an event :

WORDS OF PEACE!
Dialogues, images, music and songs
For the right of people to Peace

Registration : 

More information…

New Way to promote Human Rights Around the World

At UNESCO Headquarters on 6 March, over 1000 youth aged 18 to 35 participated in the event “Education, sport and cultural diversity – New attitudes to promote human rights in the world”. The event was organized NGO-UNESCO liaison committee, forty NGOs and the UNESCO Secretariat.

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Nine projects developed by and for young people were presented by their leaders from 5 continents, covering diverse issues such as racism and sport, access and management of drinking water, fighting violence, learning in the mother tongue, and training women to demand their rights in a spirit of fairness and equality. The day was marked by the presence of highly anticipated Andrea Agnelli, President of Juventus Football Club, who presented his project implemented with the UNESCO Centre of Turin: “Kick racism out of football: Play with me”.

Welcome

pgWelcome to known and unknown friends visiting UNESCO NGO Partners website

Our objective is to create new ties between UNESCO NGO Partners and visitors who discover this website.

Our Committee archives contain issues of the former newsletter Links which appeared three or four times a year to provide information for NGOs. That was in the last century, a time when internet was just taking root.

Now, we propose to provide you with a permanent link through our renovated website. And since good news never appears on its own, we also invite you to join us on Facebook to share the “continuous information” announced at the International Conference of NGOs last December.

This Conference has profoundly renewed our objectives, programmes and working methods. You will notice right away by navigating through our pages. The collective activities proposed for the coming months are all intended to promote closer cooperation with the different UNESCO Sectors and a culture of partnership via a multitude of projects. That is why many links will direct you to a UNESCO site , in order to strengthen this relationship.

Are you a member of a UNESCO Partner NGO? Are you a web visitor interested in civil society? Your views interest us. Your suggestions are welcome. Do not hesitate to join us on the social networks. There will never be too many of us take up and defend our shared ideals!

Enjoy your website visit

Patrick Gallaud
President of the International Conference of NGOs
and the Liaison Committee