{"id":5588,"date":"2025-09-26T11:35:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T11:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ngoc.am\/?p=5588"},"modified":"2025-09-26T11:35:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T11:35:24","slug":"ngo-center-has-joined-the-vitoria-gasteiz-declaration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ngoc.am\/en\/ngo-center-has-joined-the-vitoria-gasteiz-declaration\/","title":{"rendered":"NGO Center has joined the Vitoria-Gasteiz Declaration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;NGO Center&#8221;<\/strong><strong> Civil Society Development NGO has joined the Vitoria-Gasteiz Declaration.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Its goal is to unite governments, civil society organizations, and partners worldwide to strengthen democracy, protect civic space, and promote open, accountable, and inclusive governance.<\/p>\n<p>The Declaration was adopted ahead of the <strong>Open Government Partnership (OGP) IX Global Summit<\/strong> and reaffirms the commitment to the principles of open government transparency, participation, and accountability.<\/p>\n<p><strong>It highlights the following key areas of cooperation:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Protection of democracy and civic space<\/strong> by ensuring human rights and fundamental freedoms, including freedom of expression, peaceful assembly, and access to information.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Promotion of open government principles<\/strong> at all levels of governance through strengthened transparency, accountability, and participation.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Advancement of international cooperation<\/strong> on democracy protection, climate action, sustainable development, information integrity, and governance of new technologies.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mobilization of political will and leadership<\/strong> to restore trust and deliver effective and fair outcomes through open government.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Vitoria-Gasteiz Declaration is voluntary and does not create legal or financial obligations, but it represents an important step toward uniting the global open government community and strengthening democracy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more here:<\/strong> <a class=\"fui-Link ___w5et180 f2hkw1w f3rmtva f1ewtqcl fyind8e f1k6fduh f1w7gpdv f1mo0ibp fjoy568 ff5ikls f1s184ao f1mk8lai fnbmjn9 f1o700av f13mvf36 f1cmlufx f9n3di6 f1ids18y f1tx3yz7 f1deo86v f1eh06m1 f1iescvh fhgqx19 f1olyrje f1p93eir f1nev41a\" tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.opengovpartnership.org\/vitoria-gasteiz-declaration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-tabster=\"{&quot;restorer&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:1}}\">Vitoria-Gasteiz Declaration<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;NGO Center&#8221; Civil Society Development NGO has joined the Vitoria-Gasteiz Declaration. Its goal is to unite governments, civil society organizations, and partners worldwide to strengthen democracy, protect civic space, and promote open, accountable, and inclusive governance. The Declaration was adopted ahead of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) IX Global Summit and reaffirms the commitment to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcement-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngoc.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngoc.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngoc.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngoc.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngoc.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ngoc.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5589,"href":"https:\/\/ngoc.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5588\/revisions\/5589"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngoc.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngoc.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngoc.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngoc.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}