Civil Society

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Civil society

Eurovoc reference

8428 Civil society

Related concepts

• Non-governmental organisation
• EADI
• European League for Economic Cooperation
• IATA
• International Federation for Documentation
• IFLA
• Centre for the Development of Enterprise
• ISO
• Red Cross
• International Social Security Association
• International Trade Union Confederation
• European Trade Union Confederation
• Council of European Municipalities and Regions
• Amnesty International
• Governance
• Public consultation
• Trade union
• Trade union confederation
• Social participation
• Participation of women
• Social role

Alternative Concepts

• Civil society organisation
• Civil society organization
• CSO
• Organised civil society
• Organized civil society

Scope

All non-profit movements and associations which are independent of the State and whose objective is to transform, through concerted effort, the social policies, standards and structures at national and international level.

Other Languages

• Spanish: Sociedad civil (movimientos de opinión)
• French: Société civile
• German: Zivilgesellschaft
• Italian: Società civile
• Portuguese: Sociedade civil
• Polish: Społeczeństwo obywatelskie

Properties and Values of Civil society

• URI https://en.legalthesaurus.org/civil-society/
• skos:Concept: https://en.legalthesaurus.org/civil-society/

Preferred lexical labels

• skos:prefLabel: Civil society (en) (USE)
• Term in other languages: see above

Generic concepts

• skos:broader: See above (GT)
• skos:hasTopConcept: See above (Areas)

Specific concepts

• skos:narrower: See the specific concepts above (ST)

Related concepts

• skos:related: see the associative relationships above (RT)
• skos:related: related (other related concepts)

Alternative lexical labels

• skos:altLabel: see the alternative concepts above (UF)
• skos:altLabel: synonym (S)
• skos:altLabel: look up Civil society abbreviations and acronyms (A)

Documentation notes

• skos:scopeNote: this concept on Civil society defines the activities of Civil society (en)
• skos:editorialNote: Editorial Note on Civil society (EN)
• skos:notation: Notation on Civil society: see reference Eurovoc (N)
• skos:definition: Civil society definition:
• skos:example: example of Civil society usage:

Thematic indexing

• dct:subject: https://lawin.org/civil-society/
• Definitions: See the meaning(s) of Civil society
• Search the digital platform (S)

Other general information

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