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2010-11 Global Educator Award Recipient: Gertrude Shaffer
 Gertrude is an English teacher in rural Upstate New York, nurtures her students to become world citizens through her innovative Human Rights curriculum. To learn more about Gertrude, and other Global Educator award recipients, click here.
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GEM website still under construction - check back in the coming weeks as we add more pages.
Please click here to read a letter from GEM president Wayne Jacoby regarding our website.
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The United Nations and Civil Society
“At the United Nations, governments represent their constituencies, which include civil society, and are mandated by them to take decisions on their behalf.”
- Permanent Mission of Zimbabwe to the United Nations 59th GA Session/2004
The 21st century has already shown that civil society is integrating strongly into the debates and outcomes of a variety of issues facing the future of our world. At the United Nations, more and more, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are partners in various ways, providing important insights and reminders of the commitments made by governments to the various objectives of the United Nations
Currently, the UN organizes and hosts briefings, meetings and conferences for NGO representatives who are accredited with the United Nations. Click on this link to take a closer look of how civil society functions at the United Nations.
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Global Education Motivators (GEM) was founded in 1981 as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization to help schools and the community meet the complex challenges of living in a global society.