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RIGHTS-ARGENTINA: 'Young and Poor' at Risk from Trigger-Happy Police
By Sebastián Lacunza
BUENOS AIRES - In the 25 years since the end of one of the bloodiest dictatorships in the history of Latin America, Argentina has racked up a total of 2,557 deaths from abuses in police stations and prisons, summary executions or trigger-happy police, according to an organisation for families of the victims.
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INDIA: New Leader Brings Hope for Peace in Kashmir
By Athar Parvaiz
SRINAGAR - As tensions brew between India and Pakistan, a newly elected provincial government, led by the regional, pro-India National Conference (NC) party, has taken over the reins in Jammu and Kashmir -- a territory whose ownership has long been disputed by Pakistan.
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PERU: Open-Pit Mine Continues to Swallow City
By Milagros Salazar
CERRO DE PASCO, Peru - An immense open-pit mine located 4380 metres above sea level is swallowing up the centre of the city of Cerro de Pasco in Peru’s central highlands, while the damages, in the form of toxic waste, spread to nearby villages.
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NEPAL: Army-Rebel Integration Hangs Fire
By Renu Kshetry
KATHMANDU - Two years after Maoist fighters put aside their arms and agreed to place themselves in United Nations-monitored camps, the issue of integrating them into the regular Nepal army as part of a peace process hangs fire.
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IRAN: ‘I Want to Present a Different View of the Women in My Country’
Omid Memarian interviews Iranian activist SUSSAN TAHMASEBI
BERKELEY, California - The U.S. government’s calls for civil society to work for "regime change" in Iran has increased pressure on activists on the ground who are engaged in a peaceful process of improving their society and addressing social problems, according to Sussan Tahmasebi, a prominent women’s right activist in Iran who has not been allowed to leave the country for the past two years.
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ARGENTINA: Ecoclubs Draw Youngsters into Environmental Leadership
By Marcela Valente
BUENOS AIRES - Ecoclubs, an international social movement of teenagers and young people who work with their communities to enhance quality of life through environmentally-related initiatives, while developing their own potential for leadership and action, were born in Argentina 16 years ago and have since expanded to 30 countries in Latin America, Europe and Africa.
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POLITICS-BANGLADESH: Hasina Can Lay to Rest Ghosts of the Past
Analysis by Farid Ahmed
DHAKA - With a stunning landslide victory under her belt, prime minister-elect Sheikh Hasina Wajed has a second opportunity to put the ghosts of the past to rest and release Bangladesh from a cycle of crises that has plagued this country since its violent birth in 1971.
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ENVIRONMENT: Climate Change Forcing Penguins North?
By Adrianne Appel*
BOSTON - Warm ocean currents may have confused some 2,500 penguins from Argentina's Patagonia region that washed up -- dead and alive -- on Brazil's northern coast.
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BURMA: Junta Determined to 'Guide' 2010 Polls
By Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK - Burma’s military regime ended 2008 with greater resolve to steamroll over opposition voices in order to pave the way for a junta-friendly government when the country holds general elections in 2010.
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INDIA/PAKISTAN: Prisoner Repatriations Bring Hope
By Beena Sarwar
KARACHI - As the New Year dawns, the repatriation by India of 66 Pakistan nationals brings hope for hundreds of Pakistanis and Indians incarcerated in prisons across each other’s countries -- and for peace between the South Asian neighbours.
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RIGHTS-AUSTRALIA: 'Prison-like' Immigration Facility Open
By Stephen de Tarczynski
MELBOURNE - Refugee rights organisations have criticised the Rudd government’s decision to hold suspected asylum seekers in a controversial detention centre on an isolated Australian island in the Indian Ocean.
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RIGHTS-CHILE: False Disappearances Trigger Debate on Truth Commissions
By Daniela Estrada
SANTIAGO - A debate is on in Chile as to whether to reopen the truth commissions that documented the victims of the 1973-1990 dictatorship, after four cases of false disappearances were confirmed.
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BURMA: New Thai Policies Not Junta-Friendly
By Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK - If Burma's military regime is showing signs of worry about the change of guard that has taken place in neighbouring Thailand, there are good reasons.
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ENVIRONMENT-AUSTRALIA: Emissions Reduction Target 'Weak'
By Stephen de Tarczynski
MELBOURNE - The gap between the Rudd government’s rhetoric and practice in addressing climate change, albeit with one eye on the worsening global financial conditions, has led to a palpable feeling of betrayal among Australians.
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RIGHTS-NEPAL: Maoists Attack Journos, Threaten Media Freedom
By Mallika Aryal
KATHMANDU - When Kunda Dixit, editor of the ‘Nepali Times’ and 12 other staff members of the Himalmedia publishing house were attacked and injured by supporters of Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist (CPN-M), a week ago, it was a sign that Nepal’s ruling party intends to influence the media through intimidation.
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BANGLADESH: Corrupt Politicians, Cleaner Polls
By Farid Ahmed
DHAKA - Bangladesh goes to polls on Monday after a military-backed interim government spent two years trying to cleanse the country's electoral system of fraud and get rid of rampant corruption in public life.
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CULTURE-NIGERIA: Dance Draws Young Into Museum

CHINA/US: Wealth of Nations Redefined

ECONOMY-CHILE: Workers Nervous, Despite Anti-Crisis Plan

MIDEAST: Obama Silence 'Ends Hopes From U.S.'

MIDEAST: Israel Attacks Schools, Ambulances

ECONOMY-HONDURAS: Stormy Outlook for 2009

TRINIDAD: Where Are the Missing People?

RIGHTS-ARGENTINA: 'Young and Poor' at Risk from Trigger-Happy Police

PERU: Foreign Drug Mules Can Serve Sentences at Home

DEVELOPMENT-SOUTHERN AFRICA: No Takers for Funds for Water Projects

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CIVIL SOCIETY UNDER THREAT IN RUSSIA
By Kumi Naidoo and Tanzilya Salimdjanova
With Russia's presidential elections -- notoriously a time of clampdown on dissent -- looming, it is important to ask whether non-governmental organisations there will be able to freely go about their legitimate activities, whether providing services, election monitoring, or holding the government to account, ask Kumi Naidoo, secretary general of CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen participation, and Tanzilya Salimdjanova, associate at CIVICUS - Civil Society Watch programme.

"THE WORLD COULD BE VERY DIFFERENT FROM HOW IT IS TODAY"
By Candido Grzybowski
"The World Social Forum didn’t produce the progressive wave in Latin America by itself; nevertheless, it would be difficult to imagine it without the presence of the WSF", says Cândido Grzybowski, director of Ibase (Brazil) and member of the WSF International Committee, in this interview with IPS's Alejandro Kirk.

CIVIL SOCIETY UNDER ATTACK
By Kumi Naidoo
In the last 12 months we have seen civil society organisations challenged by political threats to civil society's right to exist, by the need to improve its internal governance, and by the threats that face humankind, from climate change crisis to poverty and inequality, writes Kumi Naidoo, secretary general of CIVICUS: A World Alliance for Citizen Participation.

World Social Forum

Int'l NGO Accountability Charter

Choike.org - Portal on Southern Civil Societies

CIVICUS - World Alliance for Citizen Participation

CONGO - Conf. of NGOs at UN

Ubuntu - World Forum of Civil Society Networks

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