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• Over 1.7 million children work in beedi-rolling industry: Study

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 710
  New Delhi, Nov 14 (IANS) Over 1.7 million children work as labourers in India’s beedi-rolling industry, according to a study by public health organisations and NGOs released on Children’s Day Saturday. Authors of the study urged the government to take urgent measures to address the issue.A beedi is a hand-rolled ...
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• Surging Through the Khyber Pass and into a quagmire - Cmon Obama, Lets have a real buildup in Afghanistan!

  
  Sir! No Sir! Exposing and Debunking Military Lies from Vietnam to Iraq — Authority: 138
  This article, by Richard Lee, was posted to The Rag Blog, November 11, 2009 To Barack Obama: Let’s have a military buildup! You can show those crazy-ass generals at the Pentagon that you aren’t just a chicken-shit weenie from Harvard. You gotta do it right, however. Stop waffling about a measly 40,000 or 44,000 ...
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• Iraqi civil society network recognized

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 435
  The Iraqi nonviolence network La’Onf has been awarded the 2009 Rights & Democracy’s John Humphrey Award in appreciation of its work to promote peaceful and non-violent political alternatives for Iraqis.Formed in 2006, La’Onf is a network of 120 civil society groups from every region, including a number of ...
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• France in Africa: business trumps democracy?

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 435
  If it is the case that the US and Europe are finally converging on democracy support, some had better tell the French, at least if Francophone African democracy advocates are to be believed.“As democracy slips in country after country in the region, France often quietly sides, once again, with the once-and-future ...
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• People walk in Kolkata to spread awareness on climate change

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 710
  Kolkata, Nov. 13 (ANI): People from all walks of life participated in a procession to spread awareness on climate change here on Friday.The procession was organized by the Kolkata Chapter of Cap the Gap, with an aim to ensure that a concrete and effective plan for reducing carbon emissions is put into effect after the ...
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• Which governments are best/worst at ending hunger?

  
  From Poverty to Power by Duncan Green — Authority: 511
  League tables are a powerful weapon in the armoury of NGO advocacy. Politicians in the country that ends up in the top slot feel like they are getting some fleeting recognition for their efforts, while those at the bottom are annoyed and hopefully prodded into action. Newspapers love them too as they reduce a complex ...
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• The Post-Mubarak Era

  
  Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) — Authority: 487
  Democratic Front Party leader Osama Al-Ghazali Harb announced his willingness to  run for Egyptian president . The announcement came during a debate amongst opposition parties and groups. Participants argued for the necessity of independent oversight of the elections, whether domestic or foreign. George Ishak ...
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• Democracy jobs

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 435
  Program Assistant for Middle East and North Africa- National Endowment for DemocracyThe National Endowment for Democracy is searching for a Program Assistant for Middle East and North Africa (MENA) to be based in Washington, D.C.To Apply: Applicants should send a resume, cover letter and salary requirements to ...
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• Monitoring Arab reform

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 435
  Egypt’s Islamist opposition is facing leadership challenges, writes Ibrahim el Houdaiby. Increasingly influential Salafist/Qutbi forces are striving to marginalize relatively moderate figures like Essam el-Erian and Abdel Moneim Abul Fotouh.Obsessed with efforts to engineer Gamal Mubarak’s succession to his ...
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• Events

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 435
  November 16, 2009. U.S. Private and Non-U.S. Funding of Media Development, featuring: Anne Nelson, Author, Experimentation and Evolution in Private U.S. Funding of Media Development; Mary Myers, Author, Funding for Media Development by Major Donors Outside the United States. With comments by: Marjorie Rouse, Internews ...
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• Faces of Freedom photos in Miami

  
  Fieldnotes — Authority: 125
  From November 19 through April 2010 , Faces of Freedom, a photography exhibition documenting efforts to end child labor in South Asia’s carpet industry, will be on display at Miami International Airport’s South Terminal Art Gallery. The collection of photos, developed by the Washington, DC-based organization ...
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• Volunteers Help Turkana’s Nomads Grapple With Drought and Illness (Humanitarian News / Merlin-USA / Reuters / Alert News)

  
  Desertification — Authority: 149
  Read at : Humanitarian Newshttp://humanitariannews.org/blog/20091111/volunteers-help-turkanas-nomads-grapple-drought-illnesshttp://www.alertnet.org/thenews/fromthefield/merlusa/125797032396.htmVolunteers Help Turkana’s Nomads Grapple With Drought and Illness11 Nov 2009 20:06:00 GMTSource: Merlin – USAAlex Cottin, ...
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• Ten Years Ago: “Manufacturing Dissent” in Seattle

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 571
  Ten Years Ago: “Manufacturing Dissent” in Seattle Seattle and Beyond: Disarming the New World Order by Michel Chossudovsky Covert Action Quarterly – 1999-11-24 Author’s Note This article published under the title Seattle and Beyond: Disarming the New World Order was written ten years ago in ...
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• Azerbaijan: bloggers’ sentences further proof of backsliding

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 435
  A Baku court today sentenced two opposition bloggers to prison in a case that has highlighted declining media freedoms and curbs on civil society in Azerbaijan. Emin Milli, 30, and Adnan Hajizada, 26, received sentences of two and two-and-a-half years, respectively.The verdict came on the same day as a round table ...
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• Green Energy Ads Continued: America’s New Natural Gas

  
  GreenEnergyForEarth.com - Solar & Wind Power Products — Authority: 122
  Nov 11, 2009 – OK, I don’t know how our new natural gas differs from our old natural gas.  The ad shows a perplexed individual [my interpretation] of an individual with a blue flame coming out of his head with the headline, “NATURAL GAS CONTRIBUTED $385 BILLION TO THE ECONOMY LAST YEAR. EUREKA ! ”  [I ...
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• Kazakh activists’ prosecution politically-motivated

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 435
  The prosecution of leading Kazakh democracy and human rights activist Yevgeny Zhovtis is politically motivated, new reports suggest.Zhovtis, director of the Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law, a grantee of the National Endowment for Democracy, was sentenced to four years in prison last month for accidentally ...
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• Zimbabwe arrests threaten power-sharing pact?

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 435
  The arrest and detention of Lovemore Matombo, president of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions, and three union colleagues highlights the resilience of hard-line security service forces within President Robert Mugabe’s ZANU-PF.The arrests are the latest in a series of attacks on labor, student and other civil ...
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• How NGOs hijack policy in Africa

  
  IEA Blog — Authority: 125
  My research in Kenya provides disturbing evidence of how foreign NGOs (non-governmental organisations) leverage their financial strength and access to the establishment to insert their single issue agendas into national policy formulation processes.   The foreign NGOs first set up a façade of local NGOs, CSOs ...
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• Why has the Tobin Tax gone mainstream?

  
  From Poverty to Power by Duncan Green — Authority: 511
  So the Tobin Tax finally went large at the G20 finance ministers’ meeting last weekend. Gordon Brown supported a financial transactions tax to repay some of the costs of the bailout and provide extra cash for development and climate change action, and a predictable backlash promptly consumed the finance pages. I ...
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• Does the WWF exploit kids?

  
  Marc Gunther — Authority: 492
  Ridiculous as it sounds, that’s the charge from Rush Limbaugh, who watched a video produced by the World Wildlife Fund in D.C. about the Copenhagen climate talks, featuring the children of WWF staffers. Says Limbaugh: These people are using their own kids, brainwashing their own kids for the advancement of a ...
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