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		<title>Preparing for a democratic mañana in Cuba</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cuba’s democratic opposition is not yet a viable alternative to communist rule, nor are the island’s communist authorities prepared for the challenges of inheriting the Castro brothers’ failed state.  But both sides could be “nudged” into making the adjustments required to effect a “perfect” democratic transition, writes the author of a new book on post-communist [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/lac/preparing-for-a-democratic-manana-in-cuba.html</link>
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		<title>Venezuela&#8217;s democratic deterioration prompts international concern</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Venezuela’s authoritarian trajectory is prompting international human rights groups to express growing concern about the suppression of dissident voices, particularly independent media and civil society representatives.  
A lawyer who represents the country’s sole independent TV channel yesterday became the latest critic of President Hugo Chavez to be prosecuted.
A group of US senators has warned Secretary of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/lac/venezuelas-democratic-deterioration-prompts-international-concern.html</link>
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		<title>Cambodia: Khmer Rouge verdict prompts outrage &#8211; and catharsis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The UN-backed war crimes tribunal has found the Khmer Rouge’s chief executioner guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity. But many of his victims and their relatives are far from happy with the verdict.
Kaing Guek Eav, better known by his nom de guerre, “Duch,” supervised the notorious S-21 prison where up to 17,000 people [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/killing-fields-verdict-prompts-outrage-and-catharsis.html</link>
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		<title>Labor militancy feeds Egypt&#8217;s political turmoil</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A terminally ill president, public outrage over police brutality and a widely discredited ruling party are contributing to a summer of political turmoil in Egypt. With President Hosni Mubarak reportedly dying of cancer, uncertainty over his succession is fuelling unrest and contributing to a sense that the country is at a watershed.
“This is an historical [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/mena/labor-militancy-feeds-egypts-political-turmoil.html</link>
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		<title>Bipartisanship is dead? Vin Weber award affirms consensus on advancing democracy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Joining the ranks of such luminaries as Lech Walesa, Vaclav Havel and the Dalai Lama, former Minnesota Congressman Vin Weber yesterday received the National Endowment for Democracy’s prestigious Democracy Service Medal for what the organization called &#8220;his commitment to advancing the principles of democracy and human dignity.&#8221;
&#8220;Democracy needs people like Vin Weber who are fervent [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/mena/bipartisanship-is-dead-vin-weber-award-affirms-consensus-on-advancing-democracy-as-work-worth-doing.html</link>
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		<title>15 years after Srebrenica massacre, moral imperatives meet political realities in the Balkans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Obama administration remains committed to ensuring reconciliation and reform in the Balkans, a senior official has insisted. But the region’s elites are pursuing narrow self-interest at the expense of the collective good, warned Antony Blinken, National Security Advisor to the Vice President and Deputy Assistant to the President, addressing a meeting on the fifteenth [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/easterneurope/15-years-after-srebrenica-massacre-moral-imperatives-meet-political-realities-in-the-balkans.html</link>
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		<title>Green movement &#8216;will bring democracy&#8217; to Iran &#8211; eventually</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Green movement leader Mir Hosein Mousavi’s latest broadside against the regime came as several hundred Green movement protesters mobilized to mark the anniversary of the July 9, 1999, attack on Tehran University.
The regime orchestrated the assault on the university dorms (the 18th of Tir Disaster) in which student Ezzat Ebrahimnejad was murdered, a leading medical [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/mena/green-movement-will-bring-democracy-to-iran-eventually.html</link>
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		<title>Close Cuba&#8217;s &#8216;factory of prisoners&#8217; &#8211; Geremek Award winner</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Aside from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s speech, another highlight of the meeting of the Community of Democracies was the presentation of the Bronislaw Geremek Award for promoting democracy to Father Jose Conrado, one of the most critical and active figures in the Catholic Church protesting human rights abuses in Cuba.
The award was named in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/close-cubas-factory-of-prisoners-geremek-award-winner.html</link>
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		<title>Clinton defends civil society from &#8216;critical threat to democracy&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has used a landmark speech to the Community of Democracies to highlight “the steel vise” with which governments are restricting civil society and announce a fund to help activist groups to combat the growing crackdown.
The speech &#8211; described by aides as her most significant address during a four-day tour [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/clinton-defends-civil-society-from-critical-threat-to-democracy.html</link>
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		<title>Can you hear us now? Uyghur report details Urumchi unrest and repression</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A year on from the unrest in Urumchi that followed the violent suppression of an initially peaceful demonstration, human rights activists are calling on China to accept an independent international investigation into the events.
A new report from the Uyghur Human Rights Project examines the unrest of July and September 2009 in Urumchi, East Turkestan’s regional [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/can-you-hear-us-now-uyghur-report-details-urumchi-unrest-and-repression.html</link>
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