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A documentary on Bolivian transgender rights was recently screened in La Paz at the forum ¡°Progress and Challenges relating to the human rights of the LGBT community¡±.
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The annual Athens Democracy Forum was held on 13-17 September 2017, organized for the fifth year by The New York Times in cooperation with the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Democracy Fund and Athens City Hall. This year¡¯s programme included discussions¡
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Youth from Kenya, South Africa and Seychelles recently participated in a regional training workshop in Nairobi as part of an Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵDEF funded project to promote the active participation of young people in drug policy development¡
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An Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵDEF-funded project in Belarus organized an international forum in Vitebsk in May 2017 on empowering people with disabilities by creating opportunities for work and employment.
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A new Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵDEF-funded project in Tunisia works to include and economically empower vulnerable youth in the northeastern governorates of Beja, Jendouba, Kef and Siliana. Implemented by local NGO Tamkeen For Development, it¡
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Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵDEF event co-hosted with World Federation of United Nations Associations, WFÄ¢¹½ÊÓƵA, focused on how civil society organizations can learn from others¡¯ experience to be more effective and create more sustainable impact in their¡
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An Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵDEF-funded project has just begun in war-torn Yemen to assist peacebuilding and promote democracy by empowering youth to participate more in civic life. This project addresses challenges posed by ethnic and religious¡
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Around the world today, 130 million girls didn't go to school. Not because they didn¡¯t want to, but because they weren¡¯t able or allowed. They are denied an education for a variety of reasons, from cultural norms and costs to¡
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Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵDEF debuted at the first Nairobi Film Festival with the story of Maria as she fights her way through the sleaze of elections to Parliament. The film is part of an Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵDEF Kenya project to empower women and youth in the¡
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An Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵDEF project in India works to address inequalities by improving local services provision to women and youth in disadvantaged communities in the Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Orissa.
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Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵDEF held its eleventh call for proposals in November-December 2016, announcing that it particularly welcomed projects promoting pluralism, diversity, and inclusion -- a theme agreed at the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵDEF Advisory Board meeting of 9¡
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For people of Haitian descent living in the Dominican Republic, a recently introduced ruling brings the risk of statelessness or deportation. Lack of identity documents and difficulties in obtaining them mean that Dominicans¡
Engaging Haiti¡¯s Youth in the Fight Against Corruption and Impunity
Voice to Action: International Day of Democracy 2025
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SDG Lounge - Growing Local Solutions
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Navigating AI for Governance and Citizen Engagement
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Empowering the next generation: Democracy for climate justice
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SDG Roundtable: Marking 75 Years of Human Rights and Civil Society Participation
SDG Dialogues: International Day of Democracy 2022
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