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
By 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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FRANCE: Top Designers Make Dolls to Fund Darfur Vaccinations
By Alecia D. McKenzie
PARIS - Designer rag dolls, the concept couldn’t sound more frivolous. But dolls made by top fashion designers such as Armani and Prada are helping to fund a vaccination programme in war-torn Darfur.
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RIGHTS-UGANDA: "You Cannot Tell Me You Will Kill Me Because I’m Gay"
By Wambi Michael
KAMPALA - The Ugandan government will put to death gay citizens repeatedly caught having sex and throw into jail those who touch each other in a "gay" way, if a new proposed Bill becomes law.
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AFRICA: We Are the Government
By Jessie Boylan
LAGO DISTRICT, Mozambique - As if they were going to the races, Emma Musako and Monica Mhango showed up in their finest outfits to attend a meeting on the health, social and environmental impacts of uranium mining. They came because they, like the other attendees, no longer want to remain uninformed citizens.
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