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Iniciativas Democráticas
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This is a bilingual site. Individual contributions are either original Spanish or English. Few translations are made / Sitio bilingüe con colaboraciones en español o inglés. La mayoría no son traducidas al otro idioma.
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: : DERECHOS HUMANOS / HUMAN RIGHTS : : |
| Este es un espacio dedicado a la defensa de los derechos humanos y a la denuncia de sus violaciones. Este esfuerzo tiene carácter universal y está abierto a las víctimas y a sus defensores en todo el mundo, en español e inglés. Pulse el botón de Derechos Humanos a su izquierda.
This is a space devoted to human rights where complaints and reports on violations may be published by all concerned. This section is a universal effort opened to the victims and their advocates all over the World, in English and Spanish. Please, click on the Human Rights button on your left.
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: : FORO PARTICIPATIVO / PARTICIPATIVE FORUM : : |
| En el Foro Participativo convergen la mayoría de los aportes de nuestros cibernautas con opiniones sobre temas históricos, económicos, políticos y/o sociales que afectan a la democracia y a los derechos humanos. Hay contribuciones breves y también artículos o ensayos, que están abiertos al debate. Le invitamos a participar - pulse el botón Foro/Forum de la barra superior. Encuentre más abajo una lista de los últimos aportes al FORO. The Participative Forum is open to all cybernauts willing to share their opinions on democracy and human rights by region within all historical, economic, political and/or social facets. Your contributions might be as short and to the point or as elaborated as you wish, and they'll all be open to debate. Everyone is invited to participate in English and/or Spanish. Click on the menu bar Foro/Forum above. Find below a list of the latest contributions to the FORUM.
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Participative Democracy
Participative democracy is concerned with how unequal distribution of power and resources affects peoples daily lives and how they can influence decision making which affects them.
Participatory democracy implies that the power to make decisions should not be left to a small number of people, but that power should be more equally shared among all citizens, so that everyone has an opportunity to influence collective affairs. The concern of participatory democrats is to achieve more egalitarian redistribution of power and greater democratisation of the political process at both national and local level.
Local governance is the wider context in which we organise, manage and participate in structures and processes which affect our lives. Local governance can, therefore, encompass systems such as local and regional political decision making fora, local authorities, local development agencies, statutory and semi-state agencies such as those involved in employment, health, education and social welfare, as well as community development organisations, neighbourhood voluntary groups, Traveller organisations and other communities of interest.
This proposal requires the development of a system of local government which reflects a mix of representative and participative democracy and which promotes a system of local governance in which there are a broad range of decision making arenas. A system in which decisions can be made collectively and on the basis of an agreed agenda. A system which is transparent and accountable to the citizen. The principles involved in participatory democracy are familiar to many involved in community development and include:
* Participation
* Self determination
* Power sharing
* Equality
* Social inclusion
* Protection of autonomous, independent voices.
* Flexible, working structures which are accountable and transparent and which resource and take into account the needs of all participating partners.
[Selected from http://kildare.ie/localdev/CWC/particip.htm]
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| DEMOCRATIC INITIATIVES
The partial outcome of the CUBAN NATIONAL DIALOGUE, with the participation of Cubans within the island and overseas, is a new document titled "Programa TODOS CUBANOS", still open to public debate with a goal to improve its scope and objectivity for a wider participation of Cubans on this effort for all and for the good of all. The text published by an important sector of the Cuban opposition is the product of months of dialogue among thousands of Cubans hoping for a better homeland. This is a tangible effort of participatory democracy in action in spite of repression on the part of the Cuban regime. Please, read here the words of its main spokesman.
Other Cuban democratic initiatives are listed in our Spanish section of DOCUMENTS DOCUMENTOS en Español
Papel del Micropréstamo en la Economía Cubana hoy y en el futuro Habana, 18 de julio de 2008.- "Cuba lleva 50 años de atraso con respecto a cualquier otro país en cuanto a economía se refiere. Aún cuando, han aumentado las salidas del país y los cubanos nos hemos puesto al día con relación a otros aspectos de la globalización en el mundo, la manera de hacer y de entender la economía es atrasada. Y no porque no sepamos hacer negocios (que los hacemos bien en las peores circunstancias) sino por la mentalidad del cubano promedio que ha vivido durante mucho tiempo dependiente económicamente del Estado y, a pesar de considerarlo injusto, se queja de “lo que no le dan” o de lo que “no le aseguran” y, en la práctica está poco consciente de su responsabilidad personal en el mejoramiento de su situación económica. Esto, creo que está claro para todos, es plenamente justificado por décadas de centralización económica y de imposibilidades (incluso para los incondicionales al Gobierno, situados en puestos de dirección de empresas importantes) de tomar decisiones determinantes en cuestiones de negocio o, peor aun, de su seguridad económica, como el ahorro o la inversión ..." | |
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