SOCS 2014 Expert Perspectives

Old problems, invisible problems, new actors: conceiving and mis-conceiving our urban century

GlobalIcon100x100 By Sheela Patel
Society for the Promotion of Area Resource Centres and Shack/Slum Dwellers International
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The Responsibility to Protect: Can we prevent mass atrocities without making the same mistakes?

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Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect
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A People’s Internet: Democratising Internet Governance

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Global Partners Digital
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Transform global governance to deliver sustainability and climate justice

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Greenpeace International
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The fight against UN impunity and immunity in Haiti: the cholera scandal

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Bureau des Avocats Internationaux
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Assessing the accountability of the world’s leading institutions: the One World Trust’s Global Accountability Framework

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One World Trust
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We came, we saw and we kept watching: how the UN and the League of Arab States failed the people of Syria

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Arab NGO Network for Development (ANND)
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Good practices for CSO Participation at the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights

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How to maintain the independence of a human rights body within an intergovernmental structure: the case of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in the Organization of American States

GlobalIcon100x100 By Jefferson Nascimento and Raísa Cetra
Foreign Policy and Human Rights Programme, Conectas Human Rights
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Working to reenergise the Commonwealth

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Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative
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Designing equitable economic policies: the case for a G193 rather than a G20

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Center for Concern
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The great divide: exposing the Davos class behind global economic inequality

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Transnational Institute
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The changing face of the World Bank and civil society’s role in the evolving institution

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Bank Information Center
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Best practices in youth engagement with intergovernmental organisations: a case study from the Rio+20 process

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Volunteerism, civic engagement and the post-2015 agenda

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The Future We Want: understanding the new reality of governance post-Rio+20

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Stakeholder Forum
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Multi-stakeholder governance seeks to dislodge multilateralism

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Influencing Governance from the Outside: Experience from Change.org

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Change.org
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Bringing citizens to the core: The case for a UN Parliamentary Assembly

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Committee for a Democratic UN
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The movement to include people with disabilities in a human rights framework

GlobalIcon100x100 By Julia Wolhandler
Disability Rights International
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Reversing the curse: the global campaign to follow the money paid by oil and mining industries

GlobalIcon100x100 By Gavin Hayman
Global Witness
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