NGOs

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• Middle East International Refounded

  
  Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) — Authority: 512
  The Middle East International has  restarted its printing press  after a six-year hiatus, releasing a  free PDF issue  online in commemoration. According to the Arabist, MEI offers “long articles and analysis from writers based in-country who [know] what they [are] talking about.” There are several articles ...
  13 hours ago

• Kimberly Abbott: Working together, NGOs and journalists can create stronger international reporting

  
  Nieman Journalism Lab — Authority: 733
  [This is the first essay in our series examining the evolving relationship between NGOs and journalism, produced with Penns Center for Global Communication Studies. Kimberly Abbott of the International Crisis Group leads off by exploring the pros and cons of established news organizations relying on NGOs for ...
  19 hours ago

• NGOs as newsmakers: A new series on the evolving news ecosystem

  
  Nieman Journalism Lab — Authority: 733
  [Today were beginning a series of essays here at the Lab dealing with an important set of players in contemporary journalism: non-governmental organizations, or NGOs. Its title: "NGOs and the News: Exploring a Changing Communication Landscape." Our friends at Penns Center for Global Communication Studies explain ...
  20 hours ago

• Cartier goes for the gold

  
  Marc Gunther — Authority: 465
  All too often, behind the glitter of gold are ugly environmental and social costs: Unregulated mines creating toxic wastes, child laborers working under grim conditions, rivers and bays polluted with waste. Sales of diamonds, meanwhile, have been used to finance wars in Africa. Under pressure, the jewelry industry has ...
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• Reading Pakistani journalist Ahmed Rashi…

  
  Talk Islam — Authority: 526
  Reading Pakistani journalist Ahmed Rashid’s “Taliban” the much-praised book about the ’student movement’ that was published just prior to Sept. 11th. An observation: It’s interesting to note how different the Taliban are as an Islamic movement in control of a population from other Islamic movements with ...
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• No Longer Afraid of Her Shadow

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 434
  The most humble of activists are often the most inspiring. Check out this profile of Elsa Mamani, a shy Peruvian woman – “I used to be an ordinary housewife, afraid of my own shadow” – who now leads CODECC (Coordinadora Departamental de Defensorías Comunitarias del Cusco), an energetic group of women fighting ...
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• Democracy events

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 434
  November 9, 2009. 20 Years Ago: The Fall of the Berlin WallThe Friedrich Naumann Foundation invites you to a Roundtable Discussion with Torsten Herbst, Member of the State Legislature of Saxony, Secretary General of the Saxon Free Democratic Party (FDP). The Willard InterContinental Hotel, Crystal Room, 1401 ...
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• Afghanistan: Women and Children First

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 629
  It may be too idealistic to believe that one day the U.S. will elect a pacifist as president or that Gen. Stanley McChrystal will be convicted by the wise words of Dispatch . Perhaps we will never see President Karzai, Abdullah…
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• Jobs & Opportunities

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 434
  Rights & Democracy’s International conference on Sharia and family law reform Rights & Democracy, the Canadian democracy assistance group, is searching for two speakers to present papers at an international conference on Sharia and family law reform in Muslim countries that we are hosting next February in ...
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• UNDEF Funding for Civil Society

  
  Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) — Authority: 512
  Michael Allen at Democracy Digest  reports  that the  U.N. Democracy Fund  (UNDEF) will open the call for applications to its Fourth Round of Funding on November 16th. UNDEF seeks to “strenghten the voice of civil society and help ensure the participation of all groups in democratic process.” Typical funding ...
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• Leading NGOs, Foundations and Trusts Involved in African Wildlife and Conservation!

  
  Africafreak.com - African Safaris Revealed - — Authority: 112
  The list has been organized into categories for your own convenience. Hope you find the links useful… Your favourite African conservation project is not listed? Make sure you add it in the comments section! Thanks! African Wild Dogs African Wild Dog Conservancy Dedicated to protecting African wild ...
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• Egypt’s Trappings of Democracy

  
  Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) — Authority: 512
  Rannie Amiri writes in The Middle East Online that “it is always amusing to see how authoritarian regimes endow themselves with the  trappings of democracy  - a  party, parliament, ‘elections’ as if they somehow confer legitimacy to otherwise undemocratic governance.” Specifically, President Hosni ...
  3 days ago

• The ‘corporatisation’ of environmental activism

  
  Harmless Sky — Authority: 108
  In the first part of his new book, Peter Taylor scrutinises the scientific research that underpins concern about global warming and finds that it is unconvincing. This extract, taken from the second part of the book, looks at the political dynamics that have promoted global warming to the top of the international ...
  4 days ago

• Eight introductory powerpoints on development – please plunder

  
  From Poverty to Power by Duncan Green — Authority: 511
  I recently gave a two week introduction to development (undergrad level) at the University of Notre Dame, consisting of eight 45 minute lectures – here are the powerpoints for anyone wanting to nick them. Each lecture includes a brief illustrative video clip of campaigns, social movements etc. Subjects covered are: ...
  4 days ago

• The nerd in the cabinet

  
  Marc Gunther — Authority: 465
  Once a professor, always a professor. Steven Chu, the energy secretary, winner of the Nobel Prize and former physics teacher at Berkeley, spoke tonight at a Washington fundraising dinner for Conservation International, the global NGO. Actually, he delivered a lecture, deploying a long, detailed PowerPoint ...
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• Berlin Wall’s lessons for promoting democracy

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 434
  While Soviet communism has entered the dustbin of history, new forms of repression have emerged, writes RFE/RL’s  Jeff Gedmin. As “authoritarian regimes are cooperating in unprecedented ways when it comes to the art and science of stifling the democratic impulses of their citizens,” the Berlin Wall’s lessons ...
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• Guinea: activists released, but junta implacable

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 434
  The good news?  Guinea’s military junta has released the democracy activists arrested last week, including attorney Thierno Baldé (above), former grantee of the National Endowment for Democracy, and head of the Research Institute on Democracy and Rule of Law.The bad news? Just weeks after the massacre of ...
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• 1989: The God That Failed, The Wall That Fell

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 434
  On the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Freedom House has launched a new web feature highlighting the changes in freedom in the former communist world. Freedom Before and After the Wall includes a retrospective essay; charts and graphs; a series of maps from 1989, 1999, and 2009 reflecting the ...
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• Funding democracy: call for proposals

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 434
  Our friends at the United Nations Democracy Fund ask us to point out that they are inviting civil society organizations to apply for funding for projects to advance and support democracy:Project proposals should be submitted on-line between 16 November 2009 and 31 December 2008 here where applicants will find ...
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• The Green Wave Surges

  
  Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) — Authority: 512
  Reports continue to filter in about  yesterday’s protests  on the  anniversary  of the  American embassy takeover  in 1979. Juan Cole  suggests  that, by protesting on this day, the opposition are “implicitly likening the government of Khamenei to that of the shah […] his regime is not less internally ...
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