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Do You Want to Be an Environmental Filmmaker and Travel Around the World with Your Movies? Premio Globo Verde Dominicano Gets You One Step Closer to Your Goal!
The Globo Verde Dominicano Award, a GFDD/Funglode and DREFF initiative, is a unique opportunity for filmmakers, students and young professionals who want to venture into a fairly uncharted area in the Dominican Republic -the creation of environmental audiovisual material- as well as to show their work to a national and international audience. For example, the short film 7 Grams, winner of Premio Globo Verde Dominicano 2015, has been presented
this year in 4 different international festivals: DCEFF in Washington, D.C.; Princeton Environmental Film Festival, in New Jersey; Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, in New York; and Festival del Cine Pobre de Gibara, in Holguin (Cuba); in addition to the Dominican Environmental Film Festival (DREFF) during the award ceremony last September. This year there´s still time, submit your work before July 31!
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GFDD and Fundación Francina Hungría Attend 9th Session of the Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Together with hundreds of disability advocates and government delegates, GFDD and its esteemed partner Fundación Francina Hungría participated in the 9th Session of the Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), one of the largest and most diverse international meetings on disability in the world from June 14-16, 2016 at United Nations Headquarters in New York City.
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Dr. Fernández and the President of Colombia Examine the Dialogue Process in Venezuela
The President of Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD) and Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo (Funglode), and former President of the Dominican Republic, Dr. Leonel Fernández, met on June 15th with Colombian President, Juan Manuel Santos, with whom he talked about the efforts carried out jointly with other former rulers in pursuit of a peaceful solution to the crisis affecting Venezuela.
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The YABT and MASHAV Transform the Lives of Young People in the Region with Entrepreneurial Projects
More than 23,000 young people in the region have benefited, directly or indirectly, from the Israel’s Agency for International Development Cooperation (MASHAV) and the Young Americas Business Trust (YABT) by incorporating themselves into corporate laboratories and training programs that the organizations provided.
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GFDD Appointed Vice Chair of UN Association of the USA Council of Organizations
The Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD), represented by its UN Programs & Outreach Manager, Marc Jourdan, was today appointed Vice Chair of the United Nations Association of the United States (UNA USA) Council of Organizations.
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InteRDom Summer Program 2016 Kicks Off in Santo Domingo
The 2016 InteRDom Summer Program officially began on June 9th, 2016 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and welcomed a diverse group of students. Scholars in the program come from the United States, Bolivia and Namibia, significantly expanding our reach to international students.
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GFDD Production Value of Life Awarded Best Documentary Jury at Bangalore Shorts Film Festival 2016
GFDD’s Value of Life was awarded with Best Documentary Jury prize at the 5th edition of Bangalore Shorts Film Festival (BSFF), which took place on June 12 in Bangalore, India.
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New York Launch of Análisis de la programación de la televisión abierta dominicana
The Graduate School of Journalism at City University of New York (CUNY) will host the launch of the book Análisis de la programación de la televisión abierta dominicana (Analysis of the Programming of the Dominican Broadcasting Television) next Thursday, June 23rd in New York and it will be conducted by the Research Center of Communication Funglode (CIC-Funglode). Elina María Cruz, coordinator of the publication and director of the center, will attend the event,
organized by GFDD / Funglode, along with other academics, politicians, and media. “This is an unprecedented investigation on television programming, while showing the peculiarities of Dominican society and concerns about the behavior of the citizen viewer” Cruz explains.
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UNA-DR Invite to Participate in the Eighth Edition of the Program “Young Delegate of the Dominican Republic to the United Nations”
The United Nations Association of the Dominican Republic (UNA-DR), in a joint effort with the Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo / Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (Funglode / GFDD), invites young Dominicans to participate in the eighth edition of the annual “Young Delegate of the Dominican Republic to the United Nations.”
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“Civil Society is the engine for democratic change in the region” States Almagro
As part to of the 46th General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro, OAS Secretary General, emphasized the role of civil society in promoting democratic change and real solutions to the problems and challenges facing member states in the region. GFDD and Funglode, along with 70 other organizations, participated in a forum on democracy and sustainable development at the assembly, being held in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.