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 3 Oct 2011 @ 22:22
INTERNATIONAL DEMOCRACY DAY HIGHLIGHTS
Erle Frayne D. Argonza
Warm greetings to fellow global citizens!
September 15 was marked as the celebration of the International Democracy Day. In Latin America, this was correspondingly met with a summit on regional security by Latin American countries. Just about couples of weeks before that, the ASEAN convened for its annual consensus-building with the extra highlight of dialogue between the ASEAN and China.
International democracy is not just about forging stronger democratic governance for each state across the globe. Such a pattern has in fact seemed to be the compass of governance, as former tyrannies disheveled while Arab dictatorships are facing militant regime-change rebels in the MENA.
International democracy also refers to the conduct of nation-states in their day-to-day interaction with each other. The world lacks a global government to serve as central institutional administrative hub, so we have to contend with an ‘anarchy of nation-states’ now and in the foreseeable future. In the absence of global government, we all have to do with treaties and covenants, from binding to non-binding ones, and observe civility in our conduct across the borders.
New power arrangements are now being crafted, as the shift from unilateral power hegemon to multi-polar arrangement is taking place. That is truly a difficult road to traverse, though a viable one at the least. For as long as we are all talking with each other across borders, we can forge international democracy in its widest latitude possible.
Below are some highlights of the latest celebration as reported by the UNDP.
[Philippines, 01 October 2011]
Source: [link]
International Day of Democracy
15 September 2011
Democratic governance is a cornerstone of the United Nations Development Programme’s work, instrumental to empowering nations and communities in 177 countries and territories around the world and advancing the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
Our results
Fostering inclusive participation
For the January 2011 Southern Sudan Referendum, UNDP worked through the UN Integrated Referendum and Electoral Division to:
• manage donor funds of more than US$56 million in international assistance;
• procure 3,160 registration kits, 7.5 million ballots and 8,500 polling booths;
• deliver polling materials via commercial trucks, helicopters and air drops.
UNDP also supported voter education and media training, and deployed more than 500 electoral observers to 62 counties during the voter registration period. More results >
Promoting responsive governing institutions
In Georgia, UNDP supported the Legal Aid Service in opening 11 offices and three consultation centres across the country, near populations most in need of legal services. In 2010, the service received more than 20,000 applications for assistance. UNDP also supported training of lawyers and the public on civil rights. More results >
Mainstreaming international principles
In Afghanistan, women won 27 percent of parliamentary seats, exceeding a 25 percent quota reserved for them at September 2010 elections, following a programme of UNDP electoral assistance that included awareness raising and training on gender-related issues. More results >
Our stories
Record number of voters ready
A record number of more than 7.3 million Guatemalans registered to vote ahead of Guatemala's presidential elections on 11 September. More
More than 30 million Congolese register to vote
UNDP trained some 31,000 Electoral Commission and temporary staff to conduct various functions for the upcoming presidential and assembly vote, including registration and updates to the existing register. More
TV production to boost youth civic participation
A mass media campaign in Cambodia empowers young adults aged 15-24, targeting three million of voting age ahead of local elections next year and a national election in 2013. More
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 3 Oct 2011 @ 06:24
As a continuation of the discourse on cosmic laws, let us reflect this time on another fundamental law: the Law of Polarity or Duality. We’ve had so much immersion to polarity principle and discourse in our lives that it hardly merits additional notes, but for the sake of deepening genuflections on the metaphysical laws let us focus on the law for this moment. More >
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2 Oct 2011 @ 22:25
The West/North is on the decline, even as their governance institutions are getting to be more dysfunctional by the day. It seems all so suddenly that the exemplars for democratic governance of the yesteryears left a huge vacuum in the world community, thus challenging the planet to expand on the key stakeholder base that can serve as pillars of global democratic governance. More >
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2 Oct 2011 @ 22:24
The previous note covered the speech of Helen Clark of the UNDP who graced the occasion of the regional security meet of Latin Americans held in Mexico. As per assessment of the UNDP experts, crime is the greatest source of regional security threats in the whole Latin Americas. More >
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2 Oct 2011 @ 06:53
In this note are some updates about the regional security for Latin America. The very gladdening news is that, over the last two decades or so, the security situation in the region had dramatically improved. More >
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2 Oct 2011 @ 06:52
We have a very fine news coming from the UNDP news rooms about the speech of the ennobled Helen Clark, Administrator of the UNDP. Appearing before the China-ASEAN dialogue in Jakarta, Madam Clark posed the challenge to the emerging markets of the South to translate economic growth into poverty reduction concretion. More >
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2 Oct 2011 @ 06:50
Climate change is a reality that many peoples across the globe are now well aware of. Even the children in developing countries or DCs have picked up on the discourse concerning climate change and ecological disasters, a discourse that they can hopefully bring home and enable their own families to respond to. More >
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1 Oct 2011 @ 06:03
Women in China have been subordinated too long, so that not even modernist ethics of a socialist state was potent enough to break that subordinated gender role for women. Gender empowerment starts and stops within the confines of the Communist Party in the emerging giant, and this had engendered tragic results in the past. More >
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30 Sep 2011 @ 22:40
The sordid, abominable bombing of a UN office in Nigeria by demonic jihadists claimed the lives of truly ennobled souls who were doing their sterling missions in Africa. A very shocking news indeed, as the jihadists have shown their total numbness and lack of compunction in killing their perceived enemies. More >
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 30 Sep 2011 @ 22:40
As of this writing, financial institutions across the globe have expressed grave concern over the post-Kyoto wrangling and lackadaisical commitments of the North to the full protocol execution. So much of forest reserves were already destroyed across the globe by the greed of market players, so the big challenged posed unto the market stakeholders and states is the stronger implementation of forestry-based carbon markets. Will the challenge ‘bite the dust’? More >
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