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PHILIPPINES: Amid Disasters’ Rubble, Accusations Hound President
Analysis by Stephen de Tarczynski
MANILA - Even in the wake of the tropical storms that lashed the northern parts of the Philippines recently, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo took time out to visit her home province.
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RIGHTS: Before the Olympics in Brazil…
By Danielle Batist
SWANSEA, U.K. - Athletes competing for Olympic gold speak to the imagination of most of us. Homeless people playing an international football tournament may be a less familiar sight. Brazilians in Rio de Janeiro will get a chance to see both.
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CLIMATE CHANGE-BOLIVIA: Climbing a 'Dead' Glacier
By Franz Chávez
CHACALTAYA, Bolivia - The rapid disappearance of glaciers and the subsequent exhaustion of water sources are pushing indigenous communities in the Bolivian highlands even further into poverty, Bolivian experts told IPS, adding that an increase in awareness about climate change is desperately needed.
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ZAMBIA: Give Us Our Constitution
By Kelvin Kachingwe
LUSAKA - Pressure is mounting for a new constitution that is inclusive of all citizens' views as the ongoing delays by the body granted to draft it still continues.
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ECONOMY-AFRICA: Pros and Cons to Huge Chinese Investment in DRC
By Stephanie Nieuwoudt
CAPE TOWN - Concerns abound about a nine billion dollar Chinese investment in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, especially around environmental consequences and transparency. And, on the Chinese side, investors complain not only about the lack of security in the DRC but about their own government not providing enough support.
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PHILIPPINES: Women's Rights Laws in Place
By Stephen de Tarczynski
MANILA - Although the enacting in August of the Magna Carta of Women (MCW) - a major law aiming to end discrimination against women across the archipelago - was well-received here, there remain concerns about whether the legislation will be fully implemented.
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BOLIVIA: Politics, a Risky Business for Women
By Franz Chávez
LA PAZ - Taking an active part in politics in Bolivia can be a hazardous undertaking. Hundreds of reports of violence against women participating in politics attest to the risk. And while attacks go unpunished, a bill designed to protect the rights of women occupying public office has spent almost a decade in Congress waiting to be approved.
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RIGHTS-UGANDA: Colliding with the Fourth Estate
By Evelyn Matsamura Kiapi
KAMPALA - Charles Odobo Bichachi, editor of the Independent Newspaper has in a span of a year, been summoned to the police several times accused of publishing seditious statements. And just last month, Bichachi fell into trouble again: this time over a cartoon.
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CAMBODIA: Climate Fight an Uphill Battle, But All’s Not Lost
By Robert Carmichael
PHNOM PENH - As one of the world’s poorest nations, Cambodia is by definition one of those least able to protect itself from the effects of climate change. As an agrarian society, it is one of those most susceptible to climate change.
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CENTRAL AMERICA: The World's Most Violent Region
By José Adán Silva
MANAGUA - Although the UNDP's Report on Human Development in Central America 2009-2010 says the region has the highest rates of non-political crime in the world, there are nevertheless plenty of opportunities to improve public security, analysts and experts say.
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CLIMATE CHANGE: Grassroots Campaign Calls for Bold Steps
By Marcela Valente
BUENOS AIRES - Through nearly 5,000 different actions planned in 170 countries for Saturday, climate change activists will try to raise public awareness on the need for a new global climate treaty which would set an upper limit for atmospheric carbon dioxide that would effectively prevent environmental catastrophes.
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SOUTH-EAST ASIA: Civil Society Refuses to Cave in at ASEAN Summit
By Marwaan Macan-Markar
CHA-AM, Thailand - Civil society representatives from South-east Asia’s developing democracies delivered an unequivocal message to the region’s leaders at a summit held here – they will not succumb to the whims of governments that suppress political and civil liberties at home.
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DEVELOPMENT: 'Global Poverty Is Not Acceptable'
By Busani Bafana
STOCKHOLM - The economic crisis is a fresh reason to meet Millennium Development Goal targets, not an excuse to miss them, said European Commission president Jose-Manuel Barroso, opening the dialogue at the fourth edition of the European Development Days (EDD).
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INDIA: Single Women Break Their Silence, Challenge Societal Norms
By Nitin Jugran Bahuguna
NEW DELHI - It has been more than eight years since the January 2001 earthquake struck the Indian state of Gujarat, but Hansa Rathore still cannot quite shake off memories of that not too distant past — all because it left her a widow.
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PERU: On Track to Meeting Poverty Reduction Target
By Milagros Salazar
LIMA - Peru is only one percentage point away from halving the proportion of its people living in extreme poverty, one of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) agreed by the international community in 2000, according to a United Nations report.
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COLOMBIA: Sexual Violence as Weapon of War
By Helda Martínez
BOGOTA - Sexual violence is used as a weapon of war in Colombia by all parties in the country’s longstanding armed conflict, and its main victims are women and girls, states a report recently released by Intermón Oxfam, backing up claims made repeatedly by national and international human rights groups.
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Q&A: ‘Creating Artificial Glaciers Is Simple, Easy and Replicable’

INDIA: ‘Glacier Man’ Vows to Build More Artificial Glaciers

US-INDIA: State Visit by Singh Could Smooth Bumpy Relations

PERU: Fighting Hunger with Native Crops

RIGHTS-CHAGOS: 'My Navel is Buried There'

GENDER-AFRICA: Some Progress Amidst Continuing Challenges

AFGHANISTAN: Insurgents Infiltrate Security Forces

LEBANON: Migrant Women Dying on the Job

POLITICS: U.N. in Final Push for 2015 Development Goals

CLIMATE CHANGE: Health at Risk

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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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