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	<description>Democracy Digest provides news, analysis and information on democracy promotion and related matters. The Digest is produced at the National Endowment for Democracy.</description>
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		<title>Nike agrees Honduras labor fund</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A major sportswear manufacturer will pay $1.5 million to a relief fund for Honduran workers to be jointly monitored by the Solidarity Center, a core institute of the National Endowment for Democracy.
Nike Inc. will make the contribution as part of a settlement of a dispute with the Central General de Trabajadores de Honduras, a union [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/lac/nike-just-does-it.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>Rushing to the polls &#8211; or deferring democratization?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The “earlier a country holds its first post-conflict election, the more likely that the vote will be a revolving door spinning the country back into violence,” Harvard University’s Jack Snyder writes in Foreign Policy.
Since the end of the Cold War, the time it takes for a post-conflict state to go from a peace agreement to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/democracy-assistance/rushing-to-the-polls-or-deferring-democratization.html</link>
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		<title>Political prisoners in China: trends and implications</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Congressional-Executive Commission on China holds a hearing on &#8220;Political Prisoners in China: Trends and Implications for U.S. Policy&#8221; next Tuesday, August 3, 2010 from 10:15 a.m to 12 p.m. at the Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 628. 
Recent trials of scholars, activists, lawyers, and others in China have shined a spotlight on the Chinese [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/political-prisoners-in-china-trends-and-implications.html</link>
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		<title>Azerbaijan court rejects dissident blogger&#8217;s appeal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A dissident blogger will remain in jail after an Azerbaijani judge rejected an appeal for early release, RFE/RL&#8217;s Azerbaijani Service reports.
Adnan Hajizada &#8211; sentenced last November on charges of hooliganism along with fellow blogger Emin Milli – was denied released because he refused to admit his guilt, the court ruled.
On her recent trip to Baku, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/eurasia/azerbaijan-court-rejects-dissident-bloggers-appeal.html</link>
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		<title>Jobs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[National Endowment for Democracy 
Currently available opportunities include: Research Associates &#8211; Fellows Program, Program Assistant -Eurasia, Program Assistant -East and Southern Africa, Assistant Program Officer -Sudan, Program Officer for Middle East and North Africa, Program Officer –Eurasia, Business Systems Engineer, Manager, Finance, Manager, Grants Administration. 
 Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellows Program
The Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellows Program at the Washington, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/democracy-assistance/jobs-2.html</link>
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		<title>Prominent Serbian journalist attacked</title>
		<description><![CDATA[RFE/RL reports that a prominent Serbian journalist and democracy activist known for his anti-nationalist politics was attacked on Saturday night in Belgrade.
Teofil Pancic, a reporter for the weekly magazine &#8220;Vreme&#8221; and columnist for RFE/RL&#8217;s Balkan Service, was hospitalized with a concussion and injuries to his arm after being attacked on a bus. A metal bar [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/prominent-serbian-journalist-attacked.html</link>
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		<title>Uyghur journalist&#8217;s &#8216;draconian&#8217; sentence highlights Beijing&#8217;s intolerance of dissent</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Human rights activists have condemned a prison sentence imposed by China’s communist authorities on an ethnic Uyghur journalist. Gheyret Niyaz, was sentenced to 15 years in prison, after he gave an interview to a Hong Kong newspaper last August, shortly after violent ethnic rioting in the western region of Xinjiang.
“Niyaz’s draconian prison sentence raises serious [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/asia/uyghur-journalists-draconian-sentence-highlights-beijings-intolerance-of-dissent.html</link>
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		<title>Democracy advocates protest Burmese military leader&#8217;s visit to India</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Democracy and human rights groups protested today as Burmese military leader General Than Shwe continued a five-day state visit to India. Activists insisted that the world’s largest democracy had a moral responsibility to complement short-term strategic interests with support for Burma’s pro-democracy opposition.
Formerly a staunch supporter of pro democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, India’s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/asia/democracy-advocates-protest-burmese-military-leaders-visit-to-india.html</link>
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		<title>Corruption: making a difference</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The idea that a free press is linked to better, more honest government is accepted as a given, largely without direct evidence. Yet only recently have news organizations begun asking whether what they are doing is making any difference.
Covering Corruption: The Difficulties of Trying to Make a Difference, by Rosemary Armao, a veteran editor and [...]]]></description>
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