Interview with Wilson Gomiero, committed for the patients’ right protection as President of FEBRAPEM-Federação Brasileira de Associações civis de Portadores de Esclerose Multipla.
Annibale Quaresima, member of the National Management Board of Cittadinanzattiva, is in Mexico, motivated by his personal civic commitment to be involved in problem of human rights of those immigrants who cross the country to reach USA, a new but not sufficiently known reality.
In this context there are some citizens associations that try to protect immigrants’ rights and lives, also with the support of immigrants shelters (albergues).
His blog Rotte Boreali contains comments, information and testimonies of immigrants hosted in these shelters.
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The “European Charter of Active Citizenship” sets out the rights and duties of civic organizations that participate in the decision-making processes related to public policies. Promoted by FONDACA and Active Citizenship Network between 2005-2006, the Charter has overcome the European borders, as demonstrated by the citations in this document: “Civil Society Partnerships and Development Policies: Emerging Trends”, commissioned by UNESCO and written by International Federation of University Women, and “Redesigning local democracy”, published by the Local Government Community Development and Services Association of Australia.
Cittadinanzattiva has decided to become a partner of the Fight the Fakes campaign because it provides continuity and a global dimension to the activities in the field of drug counterfeiting and access to accurate information which have already been priorities at national-level in Italy over the years for Cittadinanzattiva.
As member of the Italian Committee promoter of the “Campagna005”, Cittadinanzattiva also promotes the introduction of a tax on financial transactions (TTF) on each buying and selling of financial instruments. This tax was thought to discourage the opportunistic behaviors of the financial speculators who want to make money out of purchases and sales, doing thousands of operations in the same day and earning out of little prices fluctuations.
The “Campagna 005” would give the revenue generated by the tax to welfare, development for cooperation and fight against climate change activities.
As a partner of the campaign, Cittadinanzattiva promotes the activities carried out by Connect4Climate, a campaign, a coalition, and a community involved in climate change fighting.
Supported by more than 10 millions of Italian citizens , it puts together more than 70 organizations, associations, trade unions and Italian and International civic society movements.
The main objective of the Italian Coalition against poverty (in which Cittadinanzattiva participates) is to give voice to the needs and requests of the Southern countries of the world in order to take them also to the European Union, International community and to G8. The Italian Coalition against poverty (Global Call To Action Against Poverty - GCAP) is contributing to build the framework that in 2015 will substitute the
More than 400 professionals of the field participated to the survey done by Info-cooperazione.it, the Italian blog of the international cooperation professionals. The 58% of voters are against and the 42% are in favour.
Active Citizenship Network is looking for Best Practices dealing with chronic pain, with an emphasis on policy initiatives aimed at increasing patient empowerment, awareness campaign for the benefit of citizenship, attention of various stakeholders. To these may be added also good practice in the clinical management of chronic pain and dedicated tools. The most significant will be published and showed in a European event celebrated during the EU Italian Presidency next 2nd of October in Brussels titled “Chronic pain: making the invisible visible. European collection of good practices”.
The invitation to participate is addressed to both single associations of patients with chronic disease and chronic pain, and networks / umbrella Organizations. The deadline to participate is the end of August.
What does a citizen need to know about a project he/she wants to invest in? What are the most important factors to build citizens’ trust in an online platform? In order to boost citizen investment in Renewable Energy Source (RES), Active Citizenship Network has realized a online Questionnaire. Filling it, you will help us to better define the requirements of what will be a transparent platform that will promote informed decision-making investments in renewables by citizens all over the EU. Deadline to fill it: 25th August.