Barry Featherman to Receive 2010 GRAVITAS Award

Washington, DC 8/27/2010 – GRAVITAS Capital, Inc is pleased to announce the 2010 recipient of its Annual Award. The GRAVITAS Award was established in 2007 to recognize individuals of outstanding achievement whose work and activities have impacted and improved the lives of people around the world.

This year’s recipient Barry Featherman, Esq., is the Executive Director of the Global Center for Develoment and Democracy in Washington, DC.  He has dedicated his professional career to working to improve relationships between the US and countries in Latin America.  Specifically his efforts to improve Latin America’s political, economic and social stability have resulted in better policies and improved lives.

Ex-President Toledo Received Tribute in the U.S. Senate

Ex-President Toledo Received Tribute in the U.S. Senate, in Recognition of his Advocacy of Democracy, Freedom and Human Rights

Former President Bill Clinton Congratulates the Global Center for Development and Democracy

Social ills imperil democracy, world leaders say

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_15502026

Former President Bill Clinton said it first, and seven former heads of state echoed the sentiment at a Biennial of the Americas roundtable Monday: The hard issues of poverty, health care, education, social inequity and climate change must be resolved before democracy truly takes root in the Western Hemisphere.

Former Latin American presidents hold Denver forum

http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/ap/former-latin-american-presidents-hold-denver-forum-98232409.html

DENVER — Democracy is in danger across Latin America, former Ecuadorean President Gustavo Noboa warned Monday, in a discussion with six other former heads of state from the Western hemisphere.

Toledo Spoke about the US-Latin America Relationship at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado, USA

"We must do everything possible to avoid a repeat of the global financial crisis, which would only bring more poverty and instability to the Region"

Alejandro Toledo: G20, Outside Looking In

Former Peruvian president Alejandro Toledo on Peru's economic and social outlook, his hopes for the G20 and the challenges that face his country.

The Fate of Democracy and Multilateralism in the Americas

http://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2010/0624_latin_america_us_toledo.aspx

By Alejandro Toledo, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Global Economy and Development, Latin America Initiative

The Brookings Institution

Presidents Fox and Toledo Presented Social Agenda for Democracy in Montreal

Montreal, June 10, 2010. Along with IDB President Luis Alberto Moreno, the two Latin American Presidents spoke on the topic of International Trade and the Western hemisphere in the International Economic Forum of the Americas.

Former President Alejandro Toledo then presented the Social Agenda for Democracy in Latin America for the Next 20 Years, in the context of the sixteenth Conference of Montreal.

Alejandro Toledo Declares that Latin America should Press the G20 on Anti-Crisis Measures

Toronto (Canada), June 8 (EFE) .- Former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo said on Friday that Latin American countries should press for the G20 Summit, which is to be held in late June in Toronto, to take "concrete measures" to prevent a new financial crisis.

Toledo Presented the Social Agenda for Latin America to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly

May 15, Seville, Spain.  In the context of the Latin America-Europe Summit in Spain, former President Alejandro Toledo introduced 150 European and Latin American parliamentarians to the Social Agenda for Democracy in Latin America for the Next 20 Years, at the fourth plenary session of the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (EuroLat).

Toledo Presents Social Agenda for Latin America in Madrid

The Social Agenda is becoming known as the "Latin American Social Consensus," and it will also be presented in Seville and Barcelona in the framework of the Latin America-Europe Summit.

Madeleine Albright and Alejandro Toledo Presented Prizes on behalf of the National Democratic Institute

Awards went to the Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, Morgan Tsvangirai, and to a Colombian civil-society organization, the Chocó Women's Network

May 10, Washington, D.C.  Former President Alejandro Toledo gave the "Madeleine Albright" Prize to the Chocó Women's Network (a Colombian civil-society organization) as part of the 25th anniversary celebration of the National Democratic Institute (NDI).

Duane Morris' D.C. Office to House Global Development Center

Former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo issued a call to action to a room full of Duane Morris lawyers today, telling them that "now is the time to help establish truly democratic institutions in Latin America."

Toledo Presented Social Agenda for Latin America at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

The lecture discussed the interaction between poverty, growth, and democracy in the hemisphere.

The Chancellor of MIT, Philip Clay, presented former President Alejandro Toledo as "a Latin American leader who fights against poverty and social exclusion, and for democracy in the region,” to an auditorium of 200 students and professors on Monday, May 3.