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Hence, the civil rights marchers in the US during the 1950s and 1960s often evoked the “meaning of our numbers.”
Liberals denounce the law for infringing on the Arab minority’s civil rights.
Libya was not a smoothly operating country before the civil war started six months ago; today, it is thoroughly broken and will require an enormous amount of rebuilding – post-conflict operations, or “stability ops,” to use the current jargon.
Their responsible behavior demonstrates the growing importance of Indonesia's civil society.
Because Indonesia's government will likely be weak for years to come, Mrs Megawati should forge alliances with the many civil society groups that are emerging in Indonesia and which support a democratic regime.
In fact, I believe that China’s future leaders, are more likely to come from China’s burgeoning, but still limited, civil society than from the bureaucracy.
The quake gave them an opportunity to be seen, and an unprecedented number of people had a chance to perceive this nascent civil society as a positive force that serves their own interests.
Multinational organizations can address today’s challenges only with responsive leadership – the kind of leadership that finds common ground with governments and members of civil society to envision a new way forward.
That is a difficult challenge, because civil society organizations with the greatest interest in learning how to cope with the new pressures tend to specialize in specific development areas, such as the Millennium Development Goals, or sectoral issues, rather than having a broader view of how development finance institutions and their big shareholders operate.
Development for the PeopleNEW YORK – The Ebola epidemic in West Africa is destroying lives, decimating communities, and orphaning children at a rate not seen since the region’s brutal civil wars ended more than a decade ago.
Likewise, though health services in Liberia and Sierra Leone improved after their civil wars ended, quality and coverage have remained well below West African standards.
George W. Bush’s administration took matters much further, with a defense agreement in 2005 and a landmark accord on civil nuclear cooperation in 2008 (which remains the centerpiece of the transformed relationship).
To make these religious authorities acknowledge their responsibility is a duty that all of international civil society, including religious leaders, must embrace.
The difference between today and the periods that preceded other Pakistani coups is that an active civil society, an unconstrained electronic and print media, and an assertive judiciary may be able to keep the military in the barracks and force the politicians onto the right track.
The country played an important role in the push for civil rights in America, for instance.
He invited Martin Luther King, Jr. to his inauguration, giving the Atlanta-based civil rights leader a global platform for the first time.
Conditions were exacerbated by a sectarian civil war between Alawites and Sunnis, which culminated in several atrocious massacres.
In the absence of an effective, well organized, and internationally recognized opposition, the regime’s downfall could be followed by anarchy, all-out sectarian civil war, secessionist movements, and de facto partition.
This demands a certain degree of consensus, which often does not exist, especially when there has been a civil war.
Roughly half of the refugees now in Uganda are from South Sudan, where a civil war has been raging intermittently since December 2013.
Syria’s civil war is therefore increasingly a proxy fight between Iran and the US (and other anti-Iranian countries), with Syrians dying in massive numbers as victims of somebody else’s conflict.
Throughout the post-colonial period in the Muslim world, it was the military, as the best-organized public institution, that filled the space occupied elsewhere by political parties, well-established government agencies, and professional civil services.
Their withdrawal has opened the door to a new generation of politicians, with a significant number, particularly on Macron’s party list, coming from civil society, rather than from other elected or public-sector positions.
But such a debate also demands an organizational framework to engage European civil society, national parliaments, and pan-European mass media.
Resistance to the suspension of basic liberties has been minimal, as media are heavily controlled and civil society has been emasculated through repression and the consequent climate of fear.
Starting from a weak base when multiparty democracy was instituted in 1946, civil society had developed to the point that governments conferred with business associations, unions, academics, the press, and various other private interest groups.
Yet the NPT is clear: any signatory country that gives up nuclear weapons and accepts the IAEA’s absolute and unconditional control is entitled to produce electric energy from civil nuclear sources, and to receive from the international community, if necessary, technical and financial support.
Iran’s oil resources are not infinite, and it wants to have complete control over the civil nuclear field – a basic right as an NPT signatory.
In fact, it has offered several times to accept IAEA monitoring and has suggested that its civil nuclear program would be carried out with international cooperation.
This paradigm should be extended to the Geneva negotiations on the Syrian civil war, with countries like Saudi Arabia, Iran, Turkey, and Egypt assuming a greater role.
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