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Date de publication : 30-11--0001

Edition : Non défini

Auteur : ired.org

Type : Ouvrages

Theme :

Unemployment, homelessness, cutbacks in basic services, growing inequality, rising prices, social unrest, and increasing violence against the most vulnerable are all threatening to roll back the limited progress achieved on the Millennium Development Goals and erode a social contract that was civil society’s crowning achievement of the last century. Civil society has seen the effects of the financial crisis compound the assault on freedoms justified by the global war on terror. Where, in that landscape of pervasive gloom, is there cause for optimism? I believe there are at least seven substantive reasons to believe that we, as civil society, are in the midst of a once-in-a-generation opportunity to advance our shared goals.<br />\r\n(san)