Governments should view civil society not as a threat but as an asset, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said today.
The authoritarian backlash against independent civil society groups was not only a violation of fundamental freedoms and international norms. Each time a journalist is silenced or an activist arrested, “it doesn’t strengthen a government, it weakens a nation,” [READ MORE]



“From a small and crowded office in a Seoul backstreet, Park In-Ho shines a light on one of the most closed and secretive nations on earth. His Internet newspaper
Syria’s opposition has been receiving “significantly more and better weapons in recent weeks, an effort paid for by Persian Gulf nations and coordinated in part by the United States,”
Persevere.
The demotion of Zhou Yongkang (right) is “
Former Mongolian President Nambaryn Enkhbayar (left)
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