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The Welsh Centre for International Affairs is a national forum for the exchange of ideas on international issues. It seeks to promote world peace, human rights and international understanding, and to serve as a key point of contact in Wales for European institutions, the United Nations and the Commonwealth.
Within this site you will find information on the history and origins of the Centre, its current projects and events, and its location at the historic Temple of Peace and Health in Cardiff.
» What's On?
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PUT PEOPLE FIRST UPDATE:
World governments urged to do more to end the economic crisis
Policy experts from across civil society are calling for more concerted action on tax havens, reform of international financial institutions, a green economic recovery, social protection funding, financial system reform and climate change financing, if world leaders are to lift the world out of recession, and secure a fairer, greener future.
A new report from organisations involved in the Put People First mobilisation notes progress at the April G20 in steps towards better regulation of the banking system and increased transparency of tax havens. However it also finds that G20 leaders strengthened the institutions (such as the IMF) which were responsible for overseeing the policies that caused the crisis in the first place.
Ahead of the London G20, 35, 000 anti poverty activists, trade unionists and environmentalists, including supporters of [insert your organisation's name here] took to the streets under the banner Put People First, calling for democratic economic governance to deliver secure jobs and public services, an end to poverty and inequality and a green economy.
On 24-26 June, countries will discuss these issues at a UN Conference in New York, which, unlike the G20, all 192 member countries will be able to attend. Thereafter, attention turns the G8 Leaders’ Summit on 8-10 July, the G20 Leaders' Summit on 24-25 September and the G20 Finance Ministers' meeting in Scotland on 7-8 November.
Thanks to ongoing action, pressure is building on world governments to do more to offer help to the millions of workers now unemployed who are desperate to get back to work, to take action for the growing tens of millions worldwide the crisis is pushing into extreme poverty, and to begin the transition to a green world economy that could help prevent further catastrophic climate change.
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DFID Consultation
The Fight Against World Poverty
This consultation is now closed. As part of the consultation process DFID organised regional events that provided an opportunity for members of the public interested in International Development to get involved and share their ideas with them.
The Cardiff event took place on 15 April 2009, at Mercure Holland House Hotel & Spa.
GET INVOLVED
The consultation documents and all comments made will be kept visible on DFIDs pages until the forthcoming White Paper is published. You can still read the comments, ideas and suggestions that were put forward at
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Wise and Foolish Dreamers
The Centre would like to introduce you to its new project Wise and Foolish Dreamers, commemorating Wales’s involvement in the bloody and devastating Civil War that tore Spain apart 70 years ago.
For more information about this project and where it's being exhibited please visit the What’s On section of this web site. The Publications section also lists the book, DVD and posters that accompany the exhibition, which are all available to purchase through the WCIA.
We are supported by individual members and the following local authorities:
Carmarthenshire
Gwynedd
Monmouthsire
Neath Port Talbot
Newport
Powys
Rhondda Cynon Taf
Swansea
Torfaen
Vale of Glamorgan
Wrexham
Ynys Môn
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