Peoples’ BRICS | BRICS Civil Council
The BRICS Civil Council brings together representatives of a variety of societal grouping from its member countries. It aims to promote dialog and cooperation in the quest for common solutions to global and regional challenges and to foster public participation of popular movements and civil society in policy formulation and the promotion of sustainable development for the BRICS countries.
The Peoples’ BRICS was created based on discussions of the BRICS Civil Council held in Russia, in July 2024, and endorsed by leaders of the BRICS countries in the Kazan Declaration.
In 2025, under the Brazilian presidency of the BRICS, the BRICS Civil Council proposed organization of debates in the following terms:
Work Groups (GTs) - (reproducing the permanent groups established in the charter of principles of the BRICS Civil Council):
WG#1 - Health: BRICS and the Building of a Global Public Health Regime;
WG#2 - Education: non-western strategies for education in the BRICS countries;
WG#3 - Ecology: Environmental Crisis, Climate Justice, and Alternatives for Sustainable Development for Peoples of the Global South;
WG#4 - Culture: Culture and Art for Integration of the BRICS;
WG#5 - Finance: Financial and Monetary System under Multipolarity;
WG#6 – Security of Cyber Information, Advanced and Emergent Technologies, Artificial Intelligence: Digital Economy, Digital Sovereignty, Artificial Intelligence and Governance.
Addition of a non-permanent group:
WG#7 - BRICS Institutionality and Respect for Sovereignty for World Peace.
The Peoples’ BRICS Civil Council 2025 faces the challenge of bringing together contributions from popular movements of Brasil and of the other countries within a very short time frame, in view of the upcoming BRICS Summit, scheduled for the first week of July.
At the closing of the Summit, it is expected that a final draft document, will be presented by the Heads of State, prepared with ample participation of social movements and civil society of Brasil and of other BRICS countries, through the representatives of the BRICS Civil Council of each of its member countries.