2010-08 CIVICUS World Assembly: Opening

17 August 2010. Montreal, Canada. The CIVICUS 9th World Assembly, being held in Montreal from 20-23 August 2010, will see civil society from across the world jointly seek out solutions to global challenges that the world faces today. Among the organisations that will be represented at the event will be Amnesty, BBC, Global Call to Action against Poverty (GCAP), Greenpeace, IMF, Inter Press Services (IPS), Oxfam Canada, UNHCR, UNV and the World Bank. Kumi Naidoo, Greenpeace's Executive...
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17 August 2010. Montreal, Canada. The CIVICUS 9th World Assembly, being held in Montreal from 20-23 August 2010, will see civil society from across the world jointly seek out solutions to global challenges that the world faces today. Among the organisations that will be represented at the event will be Amnesty, BBC, Global Call to Action against Poverty (GCAP), Greenpeace, IMF, Inter Press Services (IPS), Oxfam Canada, UNHCR, UNV and the World Bank. Kumi Naidoo, Greenpeace's Executive Director, and Salil Shetty, Amnesty's Secretary General, will be among more than 20 high-level speakers who will address an estimated 500 conference attendees in Montreal.
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