Restart from european humanism
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This 2019 will be the year of Europe. The spring elections will inevitably mark either the relaunch of the European political project or its sinking, probably definitive.
The mistakes of the past are there for all to see and the consequences are being paid for dearly. These errors are linked to a lack of solidarity between the Member States of the Union and a lack of foresight on the part of the ruling classes, the result of the will to collect, from time to time, an immediate electoral gain, to be spent at national level only. The humiliations reserved for the peoples, the Greek people among others, show how history has taught little or nothing: the lesson of the totalitarian regimes of the 20th century, born under the ashes of frustration and humiliation, seems to have been in vain.
Migration and democracy
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1 -The theme of the Exclusion-Inclusion of immigrants has become the hot topic around which the destiny of Europe and the future of humanity are being played out. At the centre of the chronicles, the infernal game of politics, a place of conflict over ethical values, migrants and their tragedies, have become a direct expression of the globalisation of indifference to which Pope Francis now refers on a daily basis. If, in fact, the economic, social and democratic crisis affects the whole world, globalization is the decline, if not the end, of the solidarity that the state had put in place to manage fear and insecurity.
CoE : Letter of the President of the INGO Conference
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"We have many reasons to be proud of the achievements made by the Conference of INGOs for more than 40 years. These successes and experiences give us the strength and motivation to continue bringing the voice of national and international civil society and to represent it in the Council of Europe. This cannot be achieved without the Council of Europe Civil Society Division and people devoted to reinforcing the presence of INGOs in the Council of Europe"
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CoE : A Statement on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the creation of the Council of Europe
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A Statement of INGOs on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the creation of the Council of Europe
The Council of Europe is a more indispensable institution today than ever. It has still much to provide to the European continent. May it find, with all its stakeholders, especially civil society, the ways to make an effective renewal for a defense and greater promotion of Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law!
Text based on the contributions of several INGOs members of the Conference of INGOs and adopted by:
AEDE – AIC - CEP - EN-RE – Justice et Paix Europe - KEK - MIAMSI - OIEC - Pax Christi - Pax Romana - UMOFC
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News from Catholic Professionals of Tanzania (CPT)
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Catholic Professionals of Tanzania (CPT) is one of the church groups in Tanzania well recognized within the Church and the Tanzanian society at large. For the past three years, activities of the movement focused on Moral Revival Movement (MRM).
Activities
- Reflection on Ethics in Public Policy Making. Currently, CPT members are involved in engaging public leaders and politicians on how to come up with policies that safeguard the welfare of every Tanzanian. This ongoing reflection is aiming at holding a bigger Forum (2019) in commemoration of two decades since the demise of Mwalimu J. K. Nyerere. The theme will be “People centred Development.” A number of topics will be explored. They include: Pro-poor Economic Policies, Family Friendly Policies, Social Protection, Education for Self-Reliance, Ethics Financial Services, Public Accountability and Responsibility
The dream of Europe and his crisis
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The responsibility of Christians.
That Europe is seriously in crisis is an obvious fact. The crisis is particularly worrying because it is part of a global framework of strong tensions that threaten peace. Today it is urgent for Christians to reflect on the words of Pope Francis: "Good politics is at the service of peace", and it is only so if it is lived as "service to the human community".
Peace must, therefore, commit us as Christians, and this becomes all the more true that it appears evident that this action of fraternity cannot simply be delegated at the moment when the political practices take an orientation contrary to human rights, justice, social solidarity. Today it is necessary to reflect and to support a good culture that opposes the prevalence of the principles of individual and national selfishness. We have a duty to react to these practices.
CoE : Council of Europe celebrates the World NGO Day
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Statement of Anna Rurka, President of the conference of INGOs
Today February 27th, the Conference of INGOs celebrated World NGO Day for the first time at the Council of Europe with a debate on “Why do we need NGOs? - (I)NGO contribution to the work and to the mandate of the Council of Europe”. The event gathered a variety of stakeholders, including representatives of Civil Society, Permanent representations of Council of Europe Members States, prominent Human Rights activists, students and members of the Secretariat of the Council of Europe. We were particularly delighted to welcome Marcis Liors Skadmanis, founder of the international calendar day for Non-governmental organizations, ‘World NGO Day’.
INGOs enjoying participatory status with the Council of Europe are partners of the Council of Europe bodies and institutions with regard to standard setting, monitoring and implementation of activities. However, most of them agree that there is room for improvement to make this contribution less sectorial and more visible.
Migration phenomena and the responsibilities of Italy.
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Five proposals and one commitment
The synthetic data presented in the document below show how the common perception of migratory phenomena is deformed by an improper reading of reality, the extent of which is often amplified by the deforming lens of mismanagement and instrumentalisation for electoral purposes. On the basis of this observation, it is important:
1) Not to accept the rhetoric of immigration as an unstoppable wave of African population impoverished or eradicated by climate change. The numbers say more and we do not see how large masses of migrants could arrive in the future, especially from the poorest areas;
Catholic Professionals of Tanzania
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Catholic Professionals of Tanzania (CPT) is one of the church groups in Tanzania well recognized within the Church and the Tanzanian society at large. For the past three years, activities of the movement focused on Moral Revival Movement (MRM).
Activities
- Reflection on Ethics in Public Policy Making. Currently, CPT members are involved in engaging public leaders and politicians on how to come up with policies that safeguard the welfare of every Tanzanian.
International Movement of Catholic Intellectuals of Burkina Faso
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History
The idea of creating MIIC-BF (MIIC Burkina Faso) was born a few years ago after meeting a member of MIIC-Togo, Mr. Cyrille N'kawula. Indeed, after talking with Cyrille about ICMICA-Pax Romana, I was very interested and I was willing to get involved and talk to others around me about it.
Role of civil society in post 1989 Europe
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1989 was a success because of the civic movements in Central Europe. These actors who are the real heroes of the change. Which lessons?
1 Don’t accept to be unified from above, which means accept the differenciation due to the cultures. Don’t destroy the piano of Chopin.
2 In his article “Living in truth”, Vaclav Havel tells us that in the communist time, when there was no confidence in the politic system, it was necessary to invest in the civil society, to have an “antipolitics” movement in the civil society, able to give a moral impulse. Not to criticize the global system but ask oneself, which moral values to introduce in the system.
Mouvement Chrétien de Cadres et de Professionals (MCCP- Madagascar)
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The MCCP Madagascar: A Constantly Evolving Church Movement
The MCCP Madagascar comprises members from the liberal professional world and executives from the public service and the private sector. In its thirty years of existence, MCCP Madagascar has gone through different periods, in its life of movement (creation, evolution within the national authority of the Church, geographical extension) but also in the face of all aspects of national socio-political and economic life. The socio-economic, cultural or environmental realities of Madagascar, as well as the lessons communicated by the Church through the Popes' encyclicals or the Bishops' letters, have influenced the actions undertaken by the movement.
Electoral Reforms in Democratic Republic of Congo
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Pax Romana ICMICA is a movement towards action to transform our living environments. I firmly believe that this transformation depends on our transformation as men, as women, as Christians, in order to become effectively the salt of the earth and the light of the world. Testimonies and exchanges about what we are experiencing and what we see are crucial moments in building this social transformation. I sincerely hope that this session will allow us to throw a seed for the improvement of the living conditions of the populations on our continent.
To be a Christian citizen or to witness to God's love in our society.
Obnova:past and present challenges
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Whilst those reading the article have probably always lived in a very democratic environment which promotes and facilitates growth and development of NGOs and democratic values, it somehow turned out that “Obnova” during its long history has always needed to push its way out of the bubble of comfort. Being one of the oldest Christian organisations in Ukraine, it was founded in 1930 in Lviv as the initiative of the Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky and rector of the Lviv Theological Academy Rev. Josyf Slipy. Obnova’s first spiritual leader was Rev. Mykola Konrad. (now blessed)
Pax Romana challenges in Africa (Summary)
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Africa is one of the fastest-growing regions in the world. It is a continent with tremendous natural and human resources and indeed the frontier for global opportunities. Despite this, it is a continent with many challenges, including ongoing conflicts in countries such South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, corruption, unemployment, just to mention a few. It is against this backdrop that the graduate branch of Pax Romana, the International Catholic Movement for Intellectual and Cultural Affairs (ICMICA-Pax Romana) gathered over 70 leaders from 17 national federations of Catholic professionals and intellectuals across Africa to reflect on the theme: Catholic Professionals and the Call to Good/Faithful Citizenship in Africa Today.
All we need is a vision of Europe
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The times of great changes require wider perspectives, accordingly throughout Europe visions of the past, present and the future have been questioned by different bodies and institutions. Among them also Pax Romana, precisely the Siiaec (The International Secretariat of the Catholic Engineers, Agronomists and Industrialists) and the KIK, (Club of Catholic Intelligentsia) - the organizers of the International meeting in Warsaw (April 2018). Intellectuals from several European countries presented their views on various contemporary challenges. The issue of European identity and its connection with the future of our continent seems to have raised most interesting discussions and fruitful confrontations.
Fun run for Mavhaire Primary school (Zimbabwé)
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Catholic Professionals in Zimbabwe have embarked on initiatives to assist underprivileged children by paying school fees and engaging poor schools in different communities. The CPNZ will role out its programme starting with Mavhaire Primary school in Chirumanzu on 30 March 2019. Due to the economic downturn experienced at the macro level since about the turn of the millennium, the school has not been spared from economic challenges. Its coping and resilience capacities in terms of acquisition of learners' materials, relevant capital expenditure and related knowledge and education investment have been adversely affected.
Pax Romana Africa Action Plans
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A. REGIONAL LEVEL DECISIONS
1. Sub-Regional Teams
Our movement will grow only if we have strong sub-regional teams. In the spirit of the Ivory Coast resolutions, each sub region needs to nominate a country to act as a subregional coordinator. Here are the proposed sub-regional coordinators.
a. East Africa (AMECEA)- Uganda (Richard Kakeeto)
b. West Africa (RECOWA)- Mali (Dr. Chantal Afou)
c. Southern Africa (IMBISA)- Zimbabwe (Albert Dhafana)
d. Central Africa- DRC (Paul Vinny and Jean BaptiSte Ndundu )
The sub-regional coordinators, together with the regional team (which comprises: Fredrick Wamalwa, Jules Wahare, Valentin Makongo and Jules Zannou), will constitute the regional coordination team.
CoE : World NGO Day
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Dear members of the Conference of INGOs,
You are cordially invited to attend the debate organised by the Conference of INGOs on the occasion of World NGO Day entitled “Why do we need NGOs? - (I)NGO contribution to the work and to the mandate of the Council of Europe”.
This debate will highlight the invaluable contribution of (I)NGOS to the Council of Europe’s work be it in standard setting, monitoring or co-operation activities. They will also look at the cost to (I)NGOs, and their members, of working for human rights, democracy and the rule of law in a context of democratic decline. The final panel will focus on a Conference of INGOs message to the Committee of Ministers about future perspectives for NGO participation in the Council of Europe.
What is the use of memory? To defend democracy
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Auschwitz is a name that from A to Z contains the alphabet of horror: right in the heart of Europe, it has become the place of the annihilation of the "different", to be identified not only with Jews but also with dissidents, opponents, the disabled, the mentally ill, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, the Roma, the Sinti, the Slavs. Today, 74 years after the liberation of that concentration camp, we are celebrating the 19th Day of the Memory of the Holocaust (the "catastrophe", in Hebrew) established by law 211 of 20 July 2000.
