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CHILE: Mapuche Detainees Say They Were Framed
By Daniela Estrada
TEMUCO, Chile - "This lie has got to end," said a sobbing Luisa Marilef, a 55-year-old Mapuche woman who says her son's arrest and prosecution under Chile's anti-terrorism law was part of a set-up by the police and prosecutors.
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CLIMATE CHANGE-MEXICO: A Policy of Pretence
By Emilio Godoy
MEXICO CITY - Although it is the second largest emitter of greenhouse gases in Latin America and the Caribbean, after Brazil, and will be hosting next year's United Nations climate meeting, Mexico is heading to the Cophenhagen summit practically empty-handed.
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RIGHTS-LAOS: How Women Cope With Disability - Part 1
By Melody Kemp
VIENTIANE - Before 2002, Chanhpheng Sivila held training workshops for the many Lao disabled women and men at her own house.
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CLIMATE CHANGE-URUGUAY: Adaptation Is the Name of the Game
By Raúl Pierri
MONTEVIDEO - Uruguay must start focusing on efforts against global warming, and work in a coordinated manner with its South American neighbours, said one of the scientists consulted for the First Regional Report on Climate Change produced by Tierramérica, which was released Thursday.
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SOUTH SUDAN: Media Give Us a Fair Deal - Women
By Miriam Gathigah
JUBA, South Sudan - The guns have gone silent – except for sporadic conflict in parts of the vast South Sudan region, such as the Eastern Equatoria State. It may not be the absolute end of the conflict in the region, but it is a reason for renewed hope.
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CORRUPTION-SIERRA LEONE: Song Sparks Governance Debate
By Mohamed Fofanah
FREETOWN - Nothing has ever sparked a debate on the state of governance in the country like the song released by one of Sierra Leone’s most popular artists, Emerson Bockarie.
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Q&A: Women Should Be More Than Window Dressing
Jedi Ramalapa interviews Ingrid Srinath, Secretary General of CIVICUS 
JOHANNESBURG - Women in developing countries are among the most vulnerable to the effects of crisis - be that climate change, food price hikes, the HIV/AIDS pandemic or the global recession. It is becoming more commonplace to hear women's testimony, but are women's voices heard when it comes to deciding on solutions?
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SOUTH ASIA: The Ties that Bind: Artists, Writers Forge Peace
By Irfan Ahmed
CHANDIGARH, India - Imagine writers, scholars and folk performers from eight South Asian countries coming together to share their common heritage and culture while promoting peace and harmony at the same time.
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POLITICS: Malawians Demand Local Councils
By Claire Ngozo
LILONGWE - In Malawi, local government elections are as rare and endangered as the country’s black rhinoceros.
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LATIN AMERICA: Community-Based Social Innovation Wins Prizes
By Darío Montero
GUATEMALA CITY - Community control of public funds will no longer be just an effective local idea, put into practice by social activists and community leaders in a town in southern Brazil. Now that it has won first prize in ECLAC's fifth Social Innovation Contest, it is likely to spread throughout Latin America.
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RIGHTS-TURKEY: Transforming Men from Culprits to Allies
By Hilmi Toros
ISTANBUL - Success in fighting violence against women may well hinge on partnership with an often overlooked but still a critically vital party - men themselves.
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CHILE: Mapuche Voices from Prison
By Daniela Estrada
CONCEPCIÓN, Chile - "If the government says let's sit down and try to reach a solution, we'll be there," Héctor Llaitul, a leader of the radical Mapuche organisation Coordinadora Arauco Malleco (CAM), who is in prison in the southern Chilean region of Bío-Bío, told a group of foreign correspondents.
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RIGHTS-COLOMBIA: Less Torture, More Impunity
By Helda Martínez
BOGOTÁ - The number of cases of torture attributed to the armed forces in Colombia increased 80 percent from 2003 to 2008, in a context of near total impunity for such crimes. However, the number of documented torture cases overall fell 43.5 percent, compared to the 1998-2003 period.
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Q&A: Civil Society to Lose Major Supporter
Christi van der Westhuizen interviews GARA LaMARCHE and GERALD KRAAK of The Atlantic Philanthropies
CAPE TOWN - Human rights and democracy are causes that are never completely won, which is why civil society needs the support of philanthropists.
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MEXICO: DNA Tool to Trace Missing Kids
By Emilio Godoy
MEXICO CITY - Andrea C. was eight years old when two unidentified women took her from her home in a neighbourhood on the north side of the Mexican capital, in September 2005. Four years later, she is still missing.
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PARAGUAY: Indigenous Women Leaders Buck Discrimination
By Natalia Ruiz Díaz
ASUNCION - More and more indigenous women in Paraguay are overcoming sexist resistance in their communities and emerging as leaders within and outside of their villages, fighting for the rights of their people and against discrimination.
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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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