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Over 300 Students Will Participate in the Tenth Edition of the Dominican Republic Model United Nations Conference in New York
March 27, 2015 - During the event, organized by the United Nations Association of the Dominican Republic (UNA-DR) with support from GFDD/Funglode between March 29 and April 2, youth will have the opportunity to participate in simulations of the United Nations General Assembly and vote on project resolutions from the seats occupied by the official representatives of the 193... Continue Reading >
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More Than 90 People Participate in La Vega in the Presentation about ReCrearte
March 27, 2015 - The activity was part of the XXII edition of the Geography Week, in collaboration with Listin Diario’s Plan Lea and under the slogan "More Food, Less Pollution" More than 90 people, including students and teachers from public and private schools as well as representatives of Cooperativa de Ahorros y Préstamos Vega Real, participated on March... Continue Reading >
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InteRDom Forms New Relationships with Universities at the Forum on Education Abroad Annual Conference
March 27, 2015 - The 2015 Forum on Education Abroad’s 11th Annual Conference created the perfect networking environment for InteRDom representatives, who joined more than 1,500 international education professionals and educators to discuss topics surrounding this year’s theme, “It Takes a Campus and More: The Faces of Education Abroad.” Program representatives also formed new relationships with university representatives and... Continue Reading >
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100 Students Attended the DREFF Year-Round Environmental Film Screenings in San Antonio de Guerra
March 26, 2015 - The Apolinar Concepción, Arcadia Reyes, Cleotilde Castillo and Tomás Hernández Franco schools participated in the event that was held as part of the implementation of the Eco-Schools program. One hundred students from four public schools located in the Dominican district of San Antonio de Guerra enjoyed the screening of the short film Circular, by Mexican... Continue Reading >
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Tools and Networks for Hispanic Businesses at the 6th GWHCC Annual Business Expo
March 25, 2015 - GFDD and the Embassy partnered to showcase the Dominican Republic through its food and beverage industries, natural resources and investment opportunities before an audience of 2,000 people. Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD) and the Embassy of the Dominican Republic in the United States participated on March 24th at the 6th Annual Business Expo... Continue Reading >
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InteRDom to Join Dominican Diaspora Students at the 9th Annual National Dominican Student Conference
March 25, 2015 - For the eighth consecutive year, InteRDom will attend the 9th National Dominican Student Conference, hosted by Grupo Quisqueyano at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, from March 27-29th, 2015. The theme for this year’s conference is: “La Evolución De Nuestra Generación: De Dónde Venimos y Hacia Dónde Nos Dirigimos,”which translates to “The Evolution of Our... Continue Reading >
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“The Party System: Democracy and Popular Hegemony”, an article by Dr. Leonel Fernández
March 23, 2015 - In addition to having won the last five consecutive elections—three presidential and two congressional and municipal—with more than 50% of the votes cast, the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) currently appears in various polls with support above 70%. Why is this happening? What reasons explain how founder Juan Bosch’s purple party of the yellow star should... Continue Reading >
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Dominican Evening at the EFF
March 20, 2015 - The DREFF screened two Dominican films, Lago Enriquillo: Preludio del cambio climático and Mañana and hosted a panel with the films’ directors at theGala Hispanic Theater in Washington DC, as part of the 23th edition of the prestigious Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital. The Dominican Environmental Film Festival (DREFF) hosted a Dominican evening... Continue Reading >
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GFDD Attends Closing Ceremony of CSW59 Confirming Brazil as Next Chair of CSW60
March 20, 2015 - Following two weeks of negotiations and deliberations on the topic of gender equality (March 9-20, 2015), GFDD attended the closing ceremony of the 59th session of the Commission on the Status of Women which came to a head before a packed auditorium at UN Headquarters in New York. The session chaired by H.E. Kanda Vajrabhaya,... Continue Reading >
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InteRDom Travels to New Orleans for Forum on Education Abroad Annual Conference
March 19, 2015 - “It Takes a Campus and More: The Faces of Education Abroad,” is this year’s theme for The Forum on Education Abroad Conference. InteRDom representatives will attend the 11th annual conference from March 25-27, 2015 in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Forum on Education Abroad (FEA) is a non-profit organization recognized as the Standards Development Organization (SDO)... Continue Reading >
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Inclusion of New Technology in Education Begins with Quality of Teachers
March 19, 2015 - The panel “Technology in Teacher Training” opened the Forum on Higher Education and Innovation, organized by Funglode/GFDD, Microsoft Dominicana and the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology (MESCyT in Spanish). The Center for Education Studies of the Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo (Funglode) and its sister institution in the United States, the Global Foundation... Continue Reading >
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DREFF: Special Guest at the DC Environmental Film Festival Opening in Washington, D.C.
March 18, 2015 - The Dominican Republic Environmental Film Festival (DREFF), a GFDD’s initiative, was invited as a special guest to the opening night and launch party of the 23rd Annual Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital (DCEFF). The opening was held at a fully packed Elihu Root Auditorium of the Carnegie Institution for Science on March 17,... Continue Reading >
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Students from Santiago and Santo Domingo Travel to the Cocoa Trail with RDescubre Program
March 18, 2015 - A group of 50 outstanding students from 10 schools in Santiago and Santo Domingo participated yesterday in the educational excursion to theCocoa Trail, in the province of San Francisco de Macorís, an excursion organized by GFDD/Funglode’s RDescubre program, in collaboration with Plan Lean of Listín Diario. The tour was conducted in the framework of the... Continue Reading >
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GFDD & Funglode Host Presentation of a Research Study on Elimination of Violence against Women in the Dominican Republic before a Packed UN Auditorium
March 18, 2015 - The Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD) and its sister organization in the Dominican Republic, Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo (Funglode), in collaboration with the Permanent Mission of the Dominican Republic to the United Nations and the Dominican Political Observatory (OPD by its Spanish acronims) of Funglode, hosted on March 18 the presentation of... Continue Reading >
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GFDD Celebrates Dominican Women Writers
March 10, 2015 - The foundation participated at the XII International Book Fair of Dominican Women Writers in New York City with the presentation of Dr. Martha Beato´s Lecture on the Topic "The 7 Internal Forces as a Way to Empower Women" Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD) participated at the XIII International Book Fair of Dominican Women... Continue Reading >
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GFDD Submits Written Statement on the Eradication of Violence against Women in the Dominican Republic for the Opening Ceremony of CSW 59
March 10, 2015 - Following the Opening Ceremony of the 59th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW59) on Monday March 9, 2015, the Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD) released a written statement on the official website of CSW59 on the topic of the eradication of violence against women, calling for a coordinated response... Continue Reading >
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“The Acceleration of Change”, an article by Dr. Leonel Fernández
March 9, 2015 - With the publication of El Gran Cambio (The Great Change), prominent national historian Frank Moya Pons delivered a withering blow to the traditional pessimism among the Dominican intellectual elite and introduced a new paradigm of national historical interpretation on change, progress, and transformation. But while Moya Pons’s analysis covered a period of fifty years, from... Continue Reading >
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Governments Agree to Step Up Action to Achieve Gender Equality at Opening Ceremony of CSW59
March 9, 2015 - GFDD was present as the 59th Session of the Commission on the Status (CSW59) opened today before a packed General Assembly Hall at United Nations Headquarters. With record attendance by civil society, the conference hall was rapidly filled to capacity, forcing CSW59 organizers to send the remaining participants to two extra overflow rooms from which... Continue Reading >
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GFDD Attends UN Seminar Promoting the Importance of Education for a Successful Post 2015 Development Agenda
March 6, 2015 - GFDD was present at United Nations Headquarters on Friday March 6 2015, for a dual event organized by UNESCO and the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Korea to the United Nations. The event included two parts: a morning briefing on the upcoming World Education Forum (the Forum) to be held in Incheon, Republic of... Continue Reading >
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InteRDom Shares New Program Opportunities at the URI Summer Job & Internship Fair
March 4, 2015 - There was a steady stream of excited students stopping at the booths of the 2015 University of Rhode Island (URI) Summer Job & Internship Fair on March 4, 2015, eager to learn about the different opportunities available to them this summer with the 54 organizations represented. InteRDom’s booth saw many students interested in summer placements... Continue Reading >
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