Highlights from the 2022 Edition of the Silver Rose Awards Ceremony
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Highlights from the 2022 Edition of the Silver Rose Awards Ceremony

Congratulations to the winners of the 2022 Silver Rose Awards, Women Political Leaders and Lee Cheuk-yan!  Last week, 16 November 2022, SOLIDAR, together with the progressive family, Socialists & Democrats and the PES, held the annual flagship event organised for more than 20 years, the Silver Rose Awards.  This award marks an important moment for the…

Call for Nominations Silver Rose Awards 2022
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Call for Nominations Silver Rose Awards 2022

Every year, since the year 2000, SOLIDAR has organised its Silver Rose Awards in the European Parliament in cooperation with the S&D Group and the Party of European Socialists (PES), an occasion to celebrate Civil Society Organisations and individuals whose extraordinary struggles contribute greatly to social justice and solidarity throughout the world. This year, however, the war in Ukraine…

REAL_DEAL project kick-off: enhancing citizen deliberation and participation in a just green transition
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REAL_DEAL project kick-off: enhancing citizen deliberation and participation in a just green transition

February 1, 2022 February 1st 2022 marked the kick-off of a new, exciting project for SOLIDAR! Titled REAL-DEAL, which stands for ‘Reshaping European Advances towards green Leadership through DEliberative Approaches and Learning’, it is a 3-year project funded by the EU’s Horizon 2020 programme and mainly coordinated by the European Environmental Bureau (EEB) and the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS). The overall objective…

REAL DEAL | Reshaping European Advances towards green Leadership Through Deliberative Approaches and Learning
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REAL DEAL | Reshaping European Advances towards green Leadership Through Deliberative Approaches and Learning

WHAT IS THE PROJECT ABOUT? REAL DEAL- Reshaping European Advances towards green Leadership Through Deliberative Approaches and Learning is a 3-year research project funded by Horizon 2020. Its primary focus is on reshaping the participation of citizens and stakeholders in the context of the European Green Deal (EGD). WHY? Within this project, SOLIDAR is a…

Is observance all we can do? Support teachers & quality education for all! International Day of Education
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Is observance all we can do? Support teachers & quality education for all! International Day of Education

Is observance all we can do? Support teachers & quality education for all! International Day of Education With a shorter history that Teacher’s Day, the International Day of Education (24 January) was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly as such in 2018. The reason was to celebrate the role of education in bringing global…

VALUE | Solidarity Matters 
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VALUE | Solidarity Matters 

This project is closed and ran between 2021 and 2022. WHAT IS THE PROJECT ABOUT? ValUE – Solidarity Matters is a Europe for Citizens funded project withing the strand Civil Society Projects. The project provides with a deeper understanding for the participants involved of the role of solidarity for societal well-being. WHY? Through the Solidarity…

Shrinking Space: call for the drop of all charges against arrested Cambodian Union Leader Rong Chhun
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Shrinking Space: call for the drop of all charges against arrested Cambodian Union Leader Rong Chhun

The Global Union Federations is calling Cambodia to release Rong Chhun and other trade unionists in the country. Rong Chhun, president of the Cambodian Confederation of Unions, was arrested by police at his home on 31st July, after the Cambodian Border Affairs Committee publicly called on authorities to take action against the unionist for his comments, following a…

Shrinking Space: worrying crackdown on opposition and unions’ leaders in Zimbabwe
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Shrinking Space: worrying crackdown on opposition and unions’ leaders in Zimbabwe

Shrinking Space: worrying crackdown on opposition and unions’ leaders in Zimbabwe A renewed wave of repression of freedom of association and peaceful assembly is hitting Zimbabwean human rights defenders, opposition supporters, civil society and trade union activists.  The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), reported that the situation is worsening day by day. The most recent examples are:  In…

Bringing the voice of civil society into the reporting on Sustainable Development Goals: SOLIDAR and IDC input into Serbia’s VNR
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Bringing the voice of civil society into the reporting on Sustainable Development Goals: SOLIDAR and IDC input into Serbia’s VNR

This week, on 17 July 2019, SOLIDAR – together with its Serbian member IDC – followed and actively participated to the Voluntary National Review (VNR) of the Republic of Serbia held in the framework of the United Nations High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF). The VNRs are country-led and country-driven reviews undertaken to assess progress on the…