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	<title>Democracy Digest &#187; National Endowment for Democracy</title>
	<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog</link>
	<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>Democracy Jobs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[National Endowment for Democracy 
Currently available opportunities include: Administrative Assistant &#8211; CIMA, Program Assistant &#8211; Asia, Program Assistant &#8211; Europe, Program Officer for Asia, Program Officer for Latin America and the Caribbean, Database/Web Developer, and Senior Director of Finance.  Further details here.  
Center for International Private Enterprise 
Currently available opportunities include: Finance Officer, Program Assistant – Eurasia and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/africa/democracy-jobs-13.html</link>
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		<title>Democracy internships</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Latin America &#38; the Caribbean Intern, National Endowment for Democracy
The National Endowment for Democracy is hiring an unpaid intern for Latin America and the Caribbean for the spring 2010. The position requires 15 to 20 hours per week, and offers a daily transportation stipend. The intern will work with NED’s Latin American staff in a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/democracy-internships.html</link>
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		<title>Burma VJ highlights &#8216;unpleasant paradox&#8217; of democrats&#8217; struggle</title>
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Never mind Avatar, George Clooney and that bomb-disposal team in the Iraq war. A grantee of the National Endowment for Democracy could be the star of this week’s Oscars, writes Christian Caryl over at Foreign Policy.
Burma VJ, a favorite for best documentary, features covertly filmed footage of the 1988 Saffron Revolution filmed by a small [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/democracy-assistance/burma-vj-highlights-unpleasant-paradox-of-democrats-struggle.html</link>
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		<title>Democracy events</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thursday, March 4, 2010 – 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM – The Iraqi Elections &#38; the Changing Politico-Security Environment in Iraq &#8211; Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1779 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W. – Featuring keynote speaker Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad, this one day conference presents a number of panels and experts discussing key issues of security and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/asia/democracy-events-15.html</link>
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		<title>What Yuri told Obama: engagement isn&#8217;t working</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We are living through a period of global backsliding of democracy and autocratic assault on vital freedoms,&#8221; Yuri Dzhibladze told President Barack Obama last week.
The head of the Moscow-based Center for the Development of Democracy and Human Rights, a grantee of the National Endowment for Democracy, joined a delegation of human rights defenders from last [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/what-yuri-told-obama-engagement-isnt-working.html</link>
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		<title>Democracy Events</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wednesday, February 24 – Saturday, February 27 – &#8220;Voices from Afghanistan&#8221; Exhibit – Library of Congress, Thomas Jefferson Building, 10 First St. SE – On February 24, a new exhibit at the Library of Congress will display some of the thousands of hand-painted scrolls and letters received by Radio Azadi, RFE/RL&#8217;s popular Afghan radio station. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/democracy-events-14.html</link>
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		<title>Democracy events</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thursday, February 18 – Iraq’s Elections—and Iraq’s Future. 12:15-1:45, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1779 Massachusetts Ave., NW –The Iraqi parliamentary elections on March 7 will be a critical test for the young democracy. Ad Melkert, the United Nations Secretary-General&#8217;s Special Representative for Iraq, will assess the latest situation on the ground in the run-up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/democracy-assistance/democracy-events-13.html</link>
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		<title>Yevgeny Zhovtis &#8211; the new Roman Polanski?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kazakh Foreign Minister Kanat Saudabayev makes a rather bizarre attempt to justify the incarceration of human rights activist Yevgeny Zhovtis, comparing his case to that of celebrated film director Roman Polanski. 
Zhovtis was sentenced to four years in prison for accidentally striking and killing a man with his car.
“I don&#8217;t even want to comment on this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/human-rights/yevgeny-zhovtis-as-roman-polanski.html</link>
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		<title>Russia&#8217;s Legal Nihilism &#8230;Not Much the West Can Do?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Russia provides a challenging “test case” for the Obama administration’s approach to promoting democracy while engaging authoritarian regimes, a Washington meeting heard this week.
While President Dmitry Medvedev was ostensibly committed to modernization, Russia needs “broader institutional changes, including rule of law”, said Michael Posner, Assistant Secretary of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/eurasia/russias-legal-nihilism-not-much-the-west-can-do.html</link>
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		<title>Gerardo Le Chevalier &#8211; no one better understood democracy&#8217;s prospects in the Americas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[More tragic news emerging from Haiti where the United Nations confirmed that Gerardo Le Chevalier, head of the UN Electoral Assistance unit, was killed in the 7.0 quake.
A Salvadoran citizen and former director of Latin America and Caribbean programs for the National Democratic Institute, he was among those who died when the U.N. headquarters in Port-au-Prince [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/lac/gerardo-le-chevalier-no-one-better-understood-democracys-prospects-in-the-americas.html</link>
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