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	<title>Democracy Digest &#187; Endowment for Democracy</title>
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		<title>Business and labor active in informal sector</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:18:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Allen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check out CIPE’s blog for this TV report on their work with street vendors in Cairo.
It is tempting for democracy assistance practitioners to focus on the usual established institutions, but many are realizing that they ignore the informal sector at their peril, not least because if democrats don&#8217;t engage there it will likely prove fertile [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zimbabwe: calls to release student activists</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:34:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Allen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jestina Mukoko]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NAYMOTE-Partners for Democratic Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reagan-Fascell]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Democracy activists and human rights groups have condemned the arrest of leading student activists at the University of Zimbabwe. Clever Bere, president of the Zimbabwe National Student Union, and thirteen other activists were detained after addressing a demonstration against high tuition fees and poor conditions.
ZINASU has expressed concern that Bere has been handed over to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Events</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:31:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Allen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Backlash]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Failed states]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Endowment for Democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hugo Chávez]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[religious freedom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vietnam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zimbabwe]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[July 22, 2009. Captive Nations: Past, Present and Future? 
The Heritage Foundation will mark the 50th anniversary of National Captive Nations Week with a panel discussion on what U.S. policy toward the five remaining communist countries should be.  The panelists will include: Lee Edwards, Ph.D, distinguished Fellow in Conservative Thought, The Heritage Foundation, and Chairman, [...]]]></description>
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