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		<title>Opposition leaders say Clinton pledges US support for democracy, human rights in Russia</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:27:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nataliya Vasilyeva</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[MOSCOW — Visiting U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton assured Russia&#8217;s struggling independent journalists and rights activists Tuesday that U.S. efforts to improve ties with Moscow did not mean Washington was abandoning its support for democracy in Russia.

&#8220;In our discussions with the Russian government, we will continue to express our support for efforts to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SUMMIT NOTEBOOK: Obamas greet guests for G-20 dinner, braving mist and long waits</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 01:29:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Babington</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[PITTSBURGH — For 95 minutes Thursday evening, President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, greeted world leaders arriving in ones and twos for the G-20 summit&#8217;s opening dinner, at the Phipps Conservatory in Pittsburgh.

The president and his wife gamely posed for photos and made small talk as the guests trickled in along a cement entranceway [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SUMMIT NOTEBOOK: At G-20, it&#8217;s little sleep, hard floors, long security lines</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:25:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Crutsinger</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[PITTSBURGH — If it&#8217;s Thursday, it must be Pittsburgh.

Officials of the Group of 20 major economies have had a busy week, starting for many with the opening of the United Nations General Assembly in New York and then moving to Pittsburgh for two days of talks on fixing the global economy.
With all the meetings and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>European human rights envoy urges Russia to prosecute killers of NGO in Chechnya</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:57:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[MOSCOW — The Council of Europe&#8217;s commissioner on human rights says Russia must prosecute the killers of a human rights activist in Chechnya this year, if it is to break a cycle of violence in the region.

Thomas Hammarberg said Thursday that bringing the killers of Natalya Estemirova to justice will help dissipate the atmosphere of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Berlin NGO conference attendees say more funding needed to improve women&#8217;s health, development</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Mcgroarty</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BERLIN — Securing sufficient funding is the greatest obstacle to improving women&#8217;s well-being and rights in the developing world, officials attending a conference on sexual and reproductive health said Friday.

The Berlin meeting, which brought together representatives from some 300 non-governmental organizations around the world, came 15 years after the International Conference on Population and Development [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ascetic ex-minister campaigning out of a tent is running 3rd in Afghan election</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 23:18:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heidi Vogt</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[KABUL — Presidential candidate Ramazan Bashardost works out of a tent, eschews meat and refuses bodyguards. With a message of asceticism and charity, he has struck a chord with Afghan voters, disillusioned with candidates tainted by ties to warlords and government corruption.

A recent poll showed Bashardost, a former planning minister, running third among the more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rights group: &#8220;strong evidence&#8221; Hamas committed war crimes by targeting Israeli civilians</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 17:52:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diaa Hadid</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — A prominent human rights group said there is &#8220;strong evidence&#8221; that Gaza&#8217;s Hamas rulers committed war crimes by allowing militants to fire rockets from the territory that killed civilians in Israel, according to a report released Thursday.

The 31-page report by the New York-based Human Rights Watch focuses on Hamas&#8217; actions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prominent Chinese legal activist detained in worrying sign for non-gov&#8217;t groups</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/prominent-chinese-legal-activist-detained-in-worrying-sign-for-non-govt-groups-130606/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 01:14:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tini Tran</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BEIJING — A prominent Chinese legal scholar whose rights group has tackled some of China&#8217;s most politically sensitive cases, including a tainted milk scandal, has been accused of tax evasion following his arrest a week ago, his brother said Tuesday.

The detention of Xu Zhiyong comes as China appears to be widening a crackdown against activist [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iran begins first trial of postelection crisis, says activists plotted &#8216;velvet revolution&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 01:40:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ali Akbar Dareini</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[TEHRAN, Iran — Iran began its first trial of the postelection crisis on Saturday, a mass court case against more than 100 activists and protesters accused of plotting a &#8220;velvet revolution&#8221; to topple clerical rule.

Some of the most prominent politicians of the pro-reform movement, including a former vice president, were among the defendants brought before [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China court accepts first lawsuit against government by environment group</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:56:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BEIJING — A court in southwest China has accepted the country&#8217;s first lawsuit filed by an environmental group against a local government, a member of the group said Friday.

The All-China Environmental Federation, a group backed by the government, filed the suit on behalf of residents against the local land resources bureau in Qingzhen city in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chinese authorities raid Beijing office of health activist, seize newsletters</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/chinese-authorities-raid-beijing-office-of-health-activist-seize-newsletters-124803/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 09:51:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexa Olesen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BEIJING — Chinese authorities seized dozens of newsletters from a nonprofit group that fights discrimination against people with hepatitis B, a campaigner said Thursday, calling the move retribution for the group&#8217;s advocacy work.

Two officials from the Beijing Cultural Law Enforcement Agency, in charge of campaigns against printed and DVD pornography and piracy, on Wednesday confiscated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UN allows gay, lesbian organization to participate in formal meetings; bans Arab group</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:28:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bradley S. Klapper</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[GENEVA — The United Nations granted official status to a gay and lesbian organization from Brazil on Monday, allowing it to participate in U.N. meetings ranging from health to human rights.

The victory for the Brazilian Association of Gays, Lesbians and Transsexuals marks the third consecutive year the U.N. Economic and Social Council has overturned a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Major donor considers return to Myanmar as country struggles with AIDS crisis</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/major-donor-considers-return-to-myanmar-as-country-struggles-with-aids-crisis-121304/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 01:45:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[YANGON, Myanmar — Shrunken to 30 pounds of skin and bones, Ma Moe could barely walk when she arrived on the doorstep of the clinic nearly two years ago. AIDS had killed her husband three years earlier, and it was slowly killing her.

If not for the free medicine she receives, she would be dead, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Russia&#8217;s Medvedev eases restrictions on rights groups, other nongovernmental organizations</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 02:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[MOSCOW — The Kremlin says President Dmitry Medvedev has signed legislation easing restrictions on human rights groups and other non-governmental organizations.

The legislation is one of the few palpable signs of change in the Kremlin&#8217;s treatment of independent organizations since Medvedev succeeded Vladimir Putin as president last year.
It amends a restrictive law passed three years ago [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bill Clinton says fixing Haiti&#8217;s problems depends on better coordination of aid efforts</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 05:42:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan M. Katz</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — A lack of coordination among aid groups and Haitian leaders is hurting efforts to ease poverty in the Caribbean nation, Bill Clinton said Wednesday as he wrapped up his first trip here as a special U.N. envoy.

The former U.S. president, who was named to the new post in May, said during the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Russian parliament passes legislation easing pressure on NGOs ahead of Obama visit</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[MOSCOW — Russia&#8217;s lower house of parliament on Friday approved a bill easing restrictions on the country&#8217;s beleaguered human rights groups and other non-governmental organizations.

Observers say Russia is keen to show its liberal credentials ahead of President Barack Obama&#8217;s three-day visit to Moscow beginning Monday.
The Kremlin-loyal State Duma hurried through the bill&#8217;s second and third [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zimbabwe&#8217;s prime minister Tsvangirai calls foreign tour a success despite few aid pledges</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/zimbabwes-prime-minister-tsvangirai-calls-foreign-tour-a-success-despite-few-aid-pledges-92019/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/zimbabwes-prime-minister-tsvangirai-calls-foreign-tour-a-success-despite-few-aid-pledges-92019/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:42:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angela Charlton</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[PARIS — Zimbabwe&#8217;s Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai called his tour of Europe and the United States a success Thursday, though he won few commitments of aid amid new U.N. warnings of food shortages in his country.

Officials in France, Tsvangirai&#8217;s last stop on a nearly three-week tour, offered political support but said any new aid would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Earthquake recovery: China&#8217;s government stymies activism</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/earthquake-recovery-chinas-government-stymies-activism-57809/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/earthquake-recovery-chinas-government-stymies-activism-57809/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 00:35:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Hutzler</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[CHENGDU, China — When a powerful earthquake flattened Sichuan province a year ago, community organizer Zhang Guoyuan seized the moment.

Within days, he was running an aid center and warehouse, coordinating 700 volunteers and taking in $1.6 million in donated food, medicines, supplies and cash.
Then the police told him to stop.
The catastrophic earthquake last May 12 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Venezuelan NGOs warn proposed law could clamp down on critical organizations</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/venezuelan-ngos-warn-proposed-law-could-clamp-down-on-critical-organizations-56359/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/venezuelan-ngos-warn-proposed-law-could-clamp-down-on-critical-organizations-56359/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 06:17:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Toothaker</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[CARACAS, Venezuela — Prominent Venezuelan nongovernmental organizations warned Thursday that a bill being drafted by lawmakers loyal to President Hugo Chavez could be used to financially strangle groups that criticize the government.

Ruling-party lawmakers argue the proposed law is necessary to increase oversight of foreign funding destined for NGOs, although they&#8217;ve promised to hear concerns from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Asian Development Bank renews fight against poverty as global slump hits Asia&#8217;s poor</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/asian-development-bank-renews-fight-against-poverty-as-global-slump-hits-asias-poor-47098/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 14:33:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Wright</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NUSA DUA, Indonesia — Just two years ago, the Asian Development Bank was struggling with an identity crisis of sorts as a wave of new prosperity called into question its basic mission: lifting millions out of extreme poverty.

Now, as Asia sputters amid the global slowdown, the problem facing much of the region is no longer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UN kicks Jewish students, Iranians out of racism meeting following protests, breach of rules</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/un-kicks-jewish-students-iranians-out-of-racism-meeting-following-protests-breach-of-rules-35866/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 01:41:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eliane Engeler</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[GENEVA — The United Nations expelled three groups from its conference on global racism Thursday for unacceptable behavior related to the opening speech that Iran&#8217;s president gave denouncing Israel.

The disciplinary action was the latest sign of the rancor at the weeklong conference caused by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinajad&#8217;s claim that the West used the Holocaust [...]]]></description>
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