Joint Submission by The Foundation for Law and International Affairs (FLIA) and The Coalition for Peace and Ethics (CPE) on the Themes for the First Session of the Forum on Human Rights, Democracy, and the Rule of Law
The Foundation for Law and International Affairs (FLIA) and the Coalition for Peace and Ethics (CPE) welcomed the invitation, extended in a letter from the Secretariat of the Forum on Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law, dated 23rd June 2016, to reach out to their networks to identify possible topics for discussion at the Forum's inaugural session on “Widening the Democratic Space: the Role of Youth in Public Decision Making”, to be held in Geneva, at the Palais des Nations, on 21st and 22nd November 2016.
Between 24th June and 3rd July 2016, FLIA and the CPE reached out to their respective networks, to involve all interested stakeholders in the identification of possible topics to be discussed during the meeting. FLIA and the CPE reached out to a total of 42 institutions, which included:
- American and European NGOs;
- academic and research institutions based in the United States of America, China, The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Sweden, Great Britain, Italy, Albania, Australia, Austria, Japan, Korea;
- U.S. government institutions;
- students' networks based in China, Europe, India and Bangladesh; (5) Europe-based Chinese trade associations;
- alumni associations;
- informal transnational parallel-trade networks based in Lagos, Nigeria. We estimate to have reached a total of nearly 1,000 stakeholders.
Based on and incorporating the thrust of the reactions of the responding stakeholders to which FLIA and the CPE reached out, we submit the following suggestions about the topics to be discussed during the inaugural session of the Forum:
- Education and Human Rights
- Education and Democracy
- Education and Knowledge as Preconditions for the Rule of Law
- The Role of Chinese Youths' Training in Effective Political Engagement
- The Role of Chinese Youth in Politics
- The Role of Transparency in Youth Participation in Public Policy-Making
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