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April 2008

The Guardian, London

• Article on Rock against Racism, including a quote from NGPA researcher, John Street.
  'Rock against Racism made it cool to be anti-racist,' says Professor John Street, who has written on the relationship between music and politics.

September 2007

Economic Times [India]

• Diversity and civic disengagement
  Could India's heterogeneity perhaps explain why Independent India has a unique democratic record among poor developing countries, and why both Islamic fundamentalism and radical 'Hindu nationalism' have been unable to capture the popular imagination?

July 2007

Sunday Times [Sri Lanka]

• TIA and transient paralysis affect business and civil society

Business Daily [East Africa]

• The element of governance and its link to civil society

June 2007

Guardian Unlimited [London]

• My hopes and fears for Brown's security policy, Shami Chakrabarti
  The prime minister in waiting has the chance to be truly tough on terrorism by respecting rights, freedoms and the rule of law.

May 2007

Awareness Times - Sierra Leone News and Information

• Civil Society Shadow Report on Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) in Sierra Leone.

Reuters

• Blog on Reuters site by Hugo Slim about the work of NGOs.
  Hugo Slim is chief scholar at the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue in Switzerland. Previously he was Reader in Internationalism at Oxford Brookes University, on the council of Oxfam GB and worked for Save the Children UK and the United Nations in Sudan, Ethiopia, Morocco and the Palestinian Territories.

April 2007

World Bank President

• The World Bank President site is up and running again to track the media coverage, insider gossip and civil society activity on the World Bank president.

IFEX: International Freedom of Expression eXchange

• Darfur: An investigation into a tragedy's forgotten actors, New report from Reporters Without Borders (Reporters sans frontières, RSF) suggests that the image of Sudan as home to the 21st century's first genocide and closed off to the world is misleading.

The Guardian [London]

• Barbara Stocking on the effect of UK foreign policy on charity
   
• Pat Kane on using new web technologies for development/environmental goals
   
• Megan Griffin on the opportunities for the voluntary sector presented by online communities

TheJakartapost.com [Indonesia]

• Syaikhu Usman: Urging civil society via research