Women´s Empowerment: sharing challenges and good practices 0 Reply

From the local to the global level, women´s leadership and participation in society are restricted. Women are underrepresented at the political and economic level, as well as leading positions, whether in elected office, the civil service, the private sector or the Academia. This occurs despite their proven abilities as leaders and agents of change, and their right to participate equally in democratic governance. Women face several obstacles to participating in public life. Structural barriers through discriminatory laws and institutions still limit women´s options to run for office. Capacity gaps mean women are less likely than men to have the education, contacts and resources needed to become effective leaders. As the 2011 UN General Assembly resolution on women´s political participation notes, “Women in every part of the world continue to be largely marginalized from the political sphere, often as a result of discriminatory laws, practices, attitudes and gender stereotypes, low levels of education, lack of access to health care and the disproportionate effect of poverty on women”. Individual women have overcome these obstacles with great acclaim, and often to the benefit of society at large. But for women as a whole, the playing field needs to be level, opening opportunities for all[1].

The first session of this cycle will be focused on the challenges we confront as society in fighting violence against women with the objective of promoting good practices, as well as disseminate testimonials of women.

The first session will take place on  28 September from 16h to 17h30 (London time). Dialogue Cafes participating in this cycle are: Dialogue Café Cidade de Praia, Dialogue Café Évora, and Dialogue Café Lisboa. 

Contact us for further information and download the final programme session I.

[1] See more at: http://www.unwomen.org/en/what-we-do/leadership-and-political-participation#sthash.H1Nvscel.dpuf

Sharing Knowledge: Green Societies and Green Cities 0 Reply

Overview

The twenty-first session of the Conference of the Parties (COP) and the eleventh session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP) took place from 30 November to 11 December 2015, in Paris, France. The conference gave as main result an international consensus agreed by representatives of 196 parties, the Paris Agreement that will be signed and adopted during 2016-2017.

The session on “Can Countries in transition/development really go fully green and if yes, how best?” organised by Dialogue Café Novi Pazar in June 2015, provided us the opportunity to identify a cycle of sessions focused on green societies and aimed at sharing smart practices implemented at the local level by different stakeholders (municipalities, civil society organisations, universities, citizens, youth organisations).

Aim

This session is focused on how to build on green societies is to raise awareness about the commitments adopted in the Paris Agreement and promote smart practices implemented at the local level by municipalities, civil society organisations, universities, citizens, youth organisations.  Indeed, sharing knowledge and research between universities and organisations promoting green societies. The topics to be discussed are: Paris Agreement: bringing new challenges at the glocal level? and Sharing smart practices implemented at the local level.

This session which will be held next 25 October 2016 from 15h to 16h30 London time, will connect DCs based in Lisbon, Novi Pazar and Rio de Janeiro.

Among the special speakers include, from Rio de Janeiro: Guilherme Rodrigues, Forest Engineer from Onda Verde NGO; from Novi Pazar: Dzenan Hajrovic, Front Foundation; and from Lisbon: Filomena Djassi, PhD On CLimate Change, Founder of Musqueba and Project Manager at the Aga Khan Foundation.

Download the concept note / programme.

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Session on Cultural Management and Social Inclusion 0 Reply

We are pleased to annouce the organisation of a global debate on Session on Cultural Management and Social Inclusion. This session is organised by Dialogue Café Rio de Janeiro as part of a cycle on Sharing Knowledge on Cultural Management.

The aim of this global conversation is to discuss issues relating to cultural management, its challenges, perspectives and development in the framework of a global society. The first session is aimed at sharing good practices on culture for development projects. The second session will focused on museums.

Dialogue Cafes participating in this session are DC Évora (Évora Tech), DC Lisbon (Calouste Gulbekian Foundation), DC Novi Pazar (Centar Duga), and  DC Rio de Janeiro (UCAM). 

Download the final programme.

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Call for Expression of Interest: Training on Youth on transforming conflict and peace building 0 Reply

Booktubers join us e partilhem! 0 Reply

Dialogue Café Rio de Janeiro is organising in partnership with the CESAP | Centre for Applied Social Studies of the Candido Mendes University of Rio de Janeiro a Session of exchange between booktubers from Brazil and Portugal.

The session will be held next 06 July from 17h00 to 18h30 (London time) in DC Rio (Universidade Cândido Mendes – UCAM) and DC Lisbon (Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian).

Download the concept paper (in english) and the provisional programme (in portuguese).

If you are a booktuber or are interested by,

do not hesitate and join us!!

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