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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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Participatory Democracy in Local Government |
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Community Workers Co-operative & Local Government Reform
A Community Workers Co-operative has been an issue of local government reform for a number of years. A report published in 1990 - "Participation Not Representation - Community Groups and Reformed Local Government" (see http://www.cwc.ie/resources/publ.html) - was submitted to the Advisory Committee on Local Government Reform and Reorganisation. It sets out the deficiencies in the present Irish system of local government from the perspective of community-based groups, presents principles which should inform any reform process and makes practical recommendations for the active participation of community groups in development at the local level. . This document identified a number of key principles upon which local government reform should be based. These included:
* Community participation in local government and an appreciation of the value of participatory democracy.
* The design of integrated and co-operative development strategies.
* Greater autonomy for local government.
* Accountability and greater access to local government for community based organisations.
Why is Local Government Reform an Issue for the Community Sector?
* It offers new opportunities for the community sector to become involved with local government.|
* This involvement in turn offers the opportunity to place issues of poverty and social exclusion on the agenda at the local level.
* Local government has been identified as having a particular role in the implementation of the National Anti Poverty Strategy. Local authorities need to be encouraged to take this role up in a meaningful way.
* The Local Development Programme and partnership companies have been important in placing issues of social exclusion on the agenda at local level. Proposals to more closely integrate local government and local development potentially run the risk of diluting this emphasis. Community groups and others must ensure that this doesn’t happen.
* The increased involvement in local government offers a valuable opportunity to increase the public accountability of local government, a function which to date is confined mainly to local government elections, the last of which took place in 1991.
* Finally, the involvement in reformed local government offers an opportunity to promote participatory democracy, which can operate alongside and as a vital supplement to representative democracy.
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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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