THE BLOG OF THE FIIAPP. Spanish cooperation
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Victoria Ortega Benito has been the Chair of the General Council of Spanish Lawyers since January 2016. She is also the first woman to serve in this role.
On the general website of the General Council of Spanish Lawyers, Victoria refers to the work of Spanish lawyers in the following terms: “We are becoming better and better professionals, although many of us have had t...
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Tomorrow, 1st October, we celebrate the European Day of Foundations. Javier Nadal has chaired the Spanish Association of Foundations for five years (AEF). Below he explains the importance of foundations to society and the work of the AEF.
How is the chairmanship of the Spanish Association of Foundations determined?
Any foundation can present its candidacy for the chairmanship of the Association before the General Assembly for a four-year team. In my case, I presented mine i... -
Carmen Comas-Mata, director of the advisory board of the Ombudsman's Office, talks to us about the importance of cooperation.
Carmen Comas-Mata with Antonio Mora, former coordinator of projects in Kazakhstan and ArmeniaIn my extensive experience in charge of international relations at the Ombudsman's Office, which is also the national institution concerned with human rights under terms of the United Nations Organisation, I have been able to see the importance of cooperating in human rights first-h...
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According to the Ibero-American Secretariat General (SEGIB), South-South cooperation, in practice, is regarded as “a form of independent cooperation that offers strategic partnerships, under conditions of horizontality, between equals, to achieve common goals”. To celebrate the United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation, we interviewed SEGIB's Social Cohesion and South-South Cooperation Coordinator, Martín Rivero. His work is focused on the day-to-day aspects of projects from and for the South.
What is South-South cooperation?
It's the horizontal cooperation that countries in the South, in the broad sense of the word, undertake among themselves to try to resolve some of their development dilemmas with solutions applicable to thei...
