AFDC organizes two workshops on Responsible Citizenship in Cairo

Tuesday, 23 February 2010 08:02

The Arab Foundation for Development & Citizenship (AFDC) has finished its training program in Cairo by training 40 young Egyptian men and women on the values of “Responsible Citizenship”, which is being implemented in cooperation with ICTIDAR; a UNDP program and MEPI.
The training program was carried out over two workshops that lasted for 3 days each.
Mr. Elhossien Mahmoud who was the main trainer at the workshops said “these workshops come as part of AFDC’s program to empower Arab Youth in the field of responsible citizenship in a way that places emphasis on their responsibility towards their community and society.”
Participants of the workshops have presented project ideas that can be implemented by Arab Youth in their local communities. AFDC will be supporting Arab youth to implement these projects.
Over the last 8 months AFDC has carried out 10 workshops as part of this project in Lebanon, Tunisia, Morocco and Egypt.

Tunisian Youth trained on responsible citizenship

Saturday, 13 February 2010 08:37

As a continuation of its training activities on responsible citizenship, the Arab Foundation for Development & Citizenship (AFDC) has carried out two workshops in February 2010 in Tunisia, on the concept of "Responsible Citizenship". The workshop was attended by 55 young Tunisian men and woman. AFDC has previously trained 40 young Tunisian men and women in December 2009.

These workshops come as part of AFDC’s training program on "Responsible Citizenship" which has been prepared by ICTIDAR of the UN Development Program. The training program aims to link the rights and responsibilities in order to create responsible Arab citizens.

Participants of the workshops which have been carried out on 3 days have been trained on the concepts of social rights, economical rights, women’s rights, and environmental rights by carrying out exercises and activities. Participants have also prepared a number of visions that can be implemented by youth and contribute towards the concepts that they have been trained on.

Mr Ilyes Zine, AFDC’s coordinator in Tunisia, said that these workshops that have been carried out by the AFDC in Tunisia are distinct in the training they present to participants by getting them actively involved during the training as well as requesting their legal understanding in a simplistic concept as well as adopting multimedia as the main median for presentations.

The training was carried out by Mr. Ilyes Zine, and Mr. Mohamed Ennose, who is a youth activist in Morocco.

AFDC publishes its book on freedom of thoughts expression

Tuesday, 02 February 2010 07:25

The Arab Foundation for Development & Citizenship has published a book titled “Freedom of Thought Expression: Between sovereignty and globalization”, the book is authored by Mr. Mujahid Ibrahim.

The book deals with the problem of sovereignty and Human Rights; one of the problems that raise fears in many countries towards implementation of the international standards of human rights in particular those relating to freedom of opinion and expression and freedom of information.

This subject gains its special importance due to the huge expansion in the sources of information available due to the technological development seen in recent years such as New Media, this has allowed individuals and groups to express themselves much more easily and away from traditional restrictions on the ability of publishing and broadcasting as well as limiting the individual to accessing what is published by others.

The book reviews freedom of opinion and expression in international treaties of human rights on the one hand, and restrictions set by these treaties on the other hand. The book also reviews freedom of opinion and expression in the Arab Charter of Human Rights as an example of what has been achieved by the official Arab institution in the field of Human Rights and in particular freedom of opinion and expression.

The book also addresses the subjects of democracy and the sovereignty of the state and the different visions and theories around it according to the different concepts of democracy on the one hand, and sovereignty of state on the other hand. The author also reviews the various theories in this area, which varied based on the political, economic, and historical background of the political theorists in this area.

Moreover the book tried to highlight the problematic relationship between sovereignty and globalisation through freedom of opinion and freedom of expression; taking the Arab World as a case study and reviewing the problems faced when copying the western experiences to Arab Countries and the possibilities of success and failure...

The Arab Foundation for Development & Citizenship is an independent non-governmental organisation that works to spread concepts of citizenship, democracy and human rights in the Arab World. This publication comes as a part of a series of publications for the Foundation in the studies of citizenship.

AFDC organizes two workshops in Tunisia

Wednesday, 23 December 2009 08:57

The Arab Foundation for Development and Citizenship has organized two workshops on Responsible Citizenship in Tunisia, the workshops comes as part of AFDC’s program to promote the understanding and the culture of Responsible Citizenship between the Arab Youth. The Program is implemented in cooperation with the UNDP-ICTIDAR Program.

The first workshop has been carried out in cooperation with the UNESCO Club in Tunisia; the workshop was attended by 25 young Tunisian men and women. The second workshop was carried out in cooperation with Al-Jaheth Forum; the workshop was attended by 25 young Tunisians.

Training at the workshop was conducted by Mr. Mohamed Ennose, Mr. zine Ilyes (Solicitor and AFDC’s Coordinator in Tunisia), and Mr. Obaida Fares(Director of AFDC).