Read BGD’s policy brief outlining the main propositions that came out of our international workshop on Conceptualising Global Democracy.

Read a summary of the final day of the 'Concepualising Global Democracy' workshop in Cairo.

Read our update on Day 2 of the 'Conceptualising Global Democracy' Workshop in Cairo.

Read our daily updated from the Conceptualising Global Democracy Workshop in Cairo.

On 12th November Egality and Building Global Democracy presented an open seminar on global issues.

Who decides how we combat global poverty?
Who decides how we address climate change?
Who decides when war is legal?
Who decides when migration is a crime?
Who decides what is a human right?
 

 The Building Global Democracy Programme is now beginning to make plans for our third project which is to be held in New Delhi on 1-3 September 2010. The participants will be announced on the website in due course. This workshop will tackle the issue of Citzen Learning for Global Democracy.

On 6 June 2009 a team of authors presented the Civil Society and Accountable Global Governance project at the annual conference of the Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS).

If you haven't received our first Newsletter, you can now read it online in the Newsletter Archive.

Building Global Democracy programme has secured its core funding until 2011. The Ford Foundation has granted a further $500k to secure the implementation of the whole programme as well as full costs of the first project, "Conceptualising Global Democracy".

Members of UNI-Alter attended the Building Global Democracy Workshop in Belem. Read more about their thoughts on the UNI-Alter blog (in French).

UNI-Alter is a Canadian group bringing together academics and actors from Civil Society to participate into a multidisciplinary discussion at different Social Forums.