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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!
June 17, 2016 - 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,... Continue Reading >
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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
June 17, 2016 - 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... Continue Reading >
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Dr. Leonel Fernández: China’s Economic Slowdown Could Be Leveraged by Latin America
June 17, 2016 - The President of Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD) and Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo (Funglode), former Dominican Republic president, Dr. Leonel Fernández said on Thursday that the slowdown in the Chinese economy could pose an opportunity for Latin American and Caribbean countries, many of which are now facing serious difficulties following several years... Continue Reading >
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InteRDom Summer Program 2016 Kicks Off in Santo Domingo
June 16, 2016 - 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. The students accepted into the program represent a wide variety of interest areas,... Continue Reading >
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Dr. Fernández and the President of Colombia Examine the Dialogue Process in Venezuela
June 16, 2016 - 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... Continue Reading >
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The YABT and MASHAV Transform the Lives of Young People in the Region with Entrepreneurial Projects
June 16, 2016 - The Dominican United Nations Association (ANU-RD), GFDD/Funglode, the Young Americas Business Trust (YABT), and the Organization of American States (OAS), with the support of the Israel’s Agency for International Development Cooperation (MASHAV), organized yesterday the presentation "Israel and YABT: 15 years working in the economic development of the youth of the hemisphere". More than 23,000... Continue Reading >
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GFDD Appointed Vice Chair of UN Association of the USA Council of Organizations
June 16, 2016 - 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. For over six decades NGO members have counted on the Council of Organizations to serve as their critical... Continue Reading >
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GFDD Production Value of Life Awarded Best Documentary Jury at Bangalore Shorts Film Festival 2016
June 15, 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. The festival, created in 2012 to mark the 100 years celebration of Indian cinema, provides a platform to aspiring and professional filmmakers for showcasing their talent and networking... Continue Reading >
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New York Launch of Análisis de la programación de la televisión abierta dominicana
June 15, 2016 - 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... Continue Reading >
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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”
June 15, 2016 - 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." The position will... Continue Reading >
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“Civil Society is the engine for democratic change in the region” States Almagro
June 13, 2016 - Santo Domingo is hosting the 46th General Assembly of the OAS, in which GFDD and Funglode took part yesterday in the Civil Society Forum 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... Continue Reading >
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“Mitigation and Adaptation Policies Without Money Are Just a Conversation” States Executive Vice-President of the National Climate Change and Clean Development Mechanism Council at GFDD Event
June 13, 2016 - GFDD/Funglode organized and moderated a panel discussion at the 2016 United Nations Association of the United States of America (UNA USA) Leadership Council today, in its capacity as the Chair of the UNA USA Council of Organizations (UNA USA COO) Environmental Subcommittee. The event, entitled Beyond the Road to Paris-Action for Climate Change, was a seminar... Continue Reading >
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“A Model in Crisis? The Inter-American Human Rights System”, an article by Dr. Leonel Fernández
June 13, 2016 - From this Monday, June 13, to Wednesday, June 15, the Dominican Republic will host the 46th General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS). This year’s focus is on strengthening institutions for sustainable development in the Americas. The meeting comes at a delicate moment for our region – a moment when several countries face... Continue Reading >
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Leonel Fernández, Panelist at the World Economic Forum in Medellin, Colombia
June 13, 2016 - Dr. Leonel Fernández, president of Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD) and Fundación Democracia y Desarrollo (Funglode) travels Monday to Colombia, where his agenda includes a meeting with Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, at Palacio de Nariño, in Bogotá, and his participation as a panelist at the World Economic Forum on Latin America 2016... Continue Reading >
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“The UN’s Science Technology and Innovation Forum must be a vehicle for inclusion” States UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon at the 1st Session of the STI Forum
June 8, 2016 - GFDD was present during the first annual Multi-stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation (STI Forum) for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which took place at United Nations Headquarters in New York from Monday June 7 to Tuesday June 8. During the conference, representatives of UN Member States and Major Groups and Other Stakeholders heard... Continue Reading >
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Lake Enriquillo: A Prelude to Climate Change, a DREFF Screening, at the Opening of the Environment Week 2016 at UNIBE
June 8, 2016 - GFDD Year Round Environmental Film Screenings Program and the DREFF will participate throughout the week with different projections of international environmental documentaries. During UNIBE''''s Environment Week, the Dominican Republic Environmental Film Festival (DREFF), through the Year Round Environmental Film Screenings program, presents national and international documentaries aiming to raise awareness and deepen the understanding on... Continue Reading >
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The Ibero-American Network of Young Leaders Meets in the Dominican Republic
June 7, 2016 - Santo Domingo will host, from July 5 to 7, the annual meeting of the Ibero-American Network of Young Leaders (RIJL, for its acronym in Spanish), a nonpartisan and nonprofit association integrated by more than 150 young people from 22 Ibero-American countries who stand out for their leadership, academic career and social commitment. RIJL 2016 summit... Continue Reading >
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Strengthening the Power of Film Festivals Networks: DREFF at the 2016 FINCA
June 7, 2016 - The Multimedia DeHumALC Institute (IMD) of Argentina, in the framework of the International Environmental Film Festival FINCA, organized last Friday in Buenos Aires the meeting “The Power of Film Festivals Networks” during the launch of the publication “How to organize a film festival with a social commitment, a handbook for human rights and environmental cinematographic... Continue Reading >
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GFDD Global Roundtables: Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research States that “As Long as Sovereignty and Democracy Persist, Latin American Countries Will Continue to Grow and Develop”
June 7, 2016 - For this May edition of the GFDD Global Roundtables, GFDD Executive Director, Natasha Despotovic welcomed Mark Weisbrot, Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. During this session, Despotovic and Weisbrot discussed the findings of Weisbrot’s latest book Failed: What the "Experts" Got Wrong About the Global Economy, in addition to an engaged debate... Continue Reading >
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“Dominican Republic Environmental Film Festival: the Path to Synergy”, an article by Natasha Despotovic
June 7, 2016 - As Director of GFDD and DREFF, Natasha Despotovic, contributes to the publication How to organize a film festival with a social commitment, a handbook for organizers of human rights and environmental cinematographic events (Cómo organizar un festival de cine con compromiso social, un manual para organizadores de eventos cinematográficos de derechos humanos y medio ambiente),... Continue Reading >
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