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April, 2008

The Guardian, London

• Article on Rock against Racism, including a quote from NGPA researcher, John Street.
  'Rock against Racism made it cool to be anti-racist,' says Professor John Street, who has written on the relationship between music and politics.

March 2008

The Vancouver Sun, Canada

• What is a civil society, how do we create one?
  Sun's April 5 guest-editor edition explores a timely issue with help from 7 eminent people

February 2008

The East African

• Why civil society came under attack around the world in 2007, Kumi Naidoo, Secretary General of CIVICUS: A World Alliance for Citizen Participation

The Times, South Africa

• Africans in free republics have to work to end time of the Big Men

October 2007

African Path, Minneapolis, USA

• Article on the constraints faced by Angola's burgeoning civil society sector. The period leading up to the first multiparty elections, in 1992, spurred a flurry of political activity, with the appearance of new parties, civil society organisations (CSOs) and independent media outlets. However, the operation of these new political, civil and media entities has been marred by all sorts of constraints resulting in their limited effectiveness, to a point where the opposition can be characterised, as it was in an article recently appeared in the New York Times, as “weak and co-opted”.

AllAfrica.com, Washington, USA

• John Samuel argues that the use of the term Civil Society is being used as a smokescreen to give "social and political legitimacy for the hegemonic discourse."

The Monitor, Kampala, Uganda

• The hurdles of the African Peer Review
  Is Uganda to be yet another country to duck its responsibility under the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM)- Africa’s much heralded governance programme?

September 2007

Economic Times [India]

• Diversity and civic disengagement
  Could India's heterogeneity perhaps explain why Independent India has a unique democratic record among poor developing countries, and why both Islamic fundamentalism and radical ‘Hindu nationalism’ have been unable to capture the popular imagination?

July 2007

Oh My News [South Korea]

• Civil Society Lost in Media Sound Bites
  One must admit that it's becoming increasingly harder to know the good from the bad

Daily News [Tanzania]

• Engagement of civil society vital --Migiro
  The United Nations Deputy Secretary General, Dr Asha-Rose Migiro has said that the engagement of civil society has become vital to the work of the United Nations.

Sunday Times [Sri Lanka]

• TIA and transient paralysis affect business and civil society

Business Daily [East Africa]

• The element of governance and its link to civil society

June 2007

Guardian Unlimited [London]

• My hopes and fears for Brown's security policy, Shami Chakrabarti
  The prime minister in waiting has the chance to be truly tough on terrorism by respecting rights, freedoms and the rule of law.

May 2007

Awareness Times - Sierra Leone News and Information

• Civil Society Shadow Report on Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) in Sierra Leone.

Reuters

• Blog on Reuters site by Hugo Slim about the work of NGOs.
  Hugo Slim is chief scholar at the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue in Switzerland. Previously he was Reader in Internationalism at Oxford Brookes University, on the council of Oxfam GB and worked for Save the Children UK and the United Nations in Sudan, Ethiopia, Morocco and the Palestinian Territories.

April 2007

World Bank President

• The World Bank President site is up and running again to track the media coverage, insider gossip and civil society activity on the World Bank president.

IFEX: International Freedom of Expression eXchange

• Darfur: An investigation into a tragedy's forgotten actors, New report from Reporters Without Borders (Reporters sans frontières, RSF) suggests that the image of Sudan as home to the 21st century's first genocide and closed off to the world is misleading.

The Guardian [London]

• Barbara Stocking on the effect of UK foreign policy on charity
   
• Pat Kane on using new web technologies for development/environmental goals
   
• Megan Griffin on the opportunities for the voluntary sector presented by online communities

TheJakartapost.com [Indonesia]

• Syaikhu Usman: Urging civil society via research

RadioFreeEurope [Eastern Europe]

• RFE/RL correspondent Heather Maher spoke with Deputy Assistant Secretary of State For Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Erica Barks-Ruggles about what the United States has been doing specifically in Central Asia and Afghanistan.

Last updated: 24 April 2008

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