Baker, Peta-Anne2012-08-132012-08-1319991999http://hdl.handle.net/10625/50016Third Commonwealth NGO Forum - The People's Future: Citizens and Governance in the New Millennium - Durban, South AfricaThe peoples of the Commonwealth Caribbean have a long history. of taking action to improve the quality of their lives. Universal adult suffrage was won over fifty years ago, partly as a result of urban and rural workers protests about their living and working conditions and their demand for recognition. With only one or two exceptions, political parties have, since the establislunent of parliamentary democracy, regularly competed for elected office, and governments have changed even if the environment of this process has not always been fair or free from fear...Text1 digital file (23 p.)application/pdfenCARIBBEANCIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTSCIVIL SOCIETYGOVERNANCEPOPULAR PARTICIPATIONDEMOCRATIZATIONCOMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONADMINISTRATIVE REFORMCIVIC EDUCATIONIDRC Final Report