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4.5.2011
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National Coalition Party, SDP and True Finns the biggest parties in the Finnish parliamentary election
The National Coalition Party became the biggest party in the 2011 Finnish parliamentary election. The National Coalition gained 44 seats, the Social Democrats 42 seats and the True Finns 39 seats of the total of 200 seats in the Finnish Parliament.
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20.4.2011
Peace matters on Ahtisaari Day
Martti Ahtisaari, 2008 Nobel Peace Prize winner and former Finnish president, celebrates the tenth anniversary of Crisis Management Initiative, an organisation he founded, at a seminar packed with high-profile speakers on April 19, 2011. It’s also the first Ahtisaari Day.
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18.4.2011
18.4.2011
Peace mediation through the eyes of Kofi Annan and a former child soldier
How is peace built at the highest political level? Or, how does a victim of cruel human rights violations end up building a career as a hip hop artist – and a peace activist? Crisis Management Initiative, the organisation established by President Martti Ahtisaari, celebrates its 10th anniversary with a seminar to be held in Helsinki on 19 April. The seminar invitees include experts of peace mediation, from Kofi Annan and Stephen Heintz to Emmanuel Jal.
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6.4.2011
UN Special Rapporteur: Rights of people with disability into the mainstream
UN Special Rapporteur on Disability Shuaib Chalklen visited Finland to promote mainstreaming of disability issues. At a seminar held by the coordination group on disability policy, Chalklen regretted the invisibility of disability issues in the Millennium Development Goals. In Finland’s development cooperation, disability issues have had an important role particularly in cooperation with civil society organisations.
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