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A politics of denial: are the world's fledgling NGOs a match for its repressive governments?(Non-governmental associations)
American Prospect, The, January, 2002 by Polakow-Suransky, Sasha
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ON THE SIDEWALK OUTSIDE THE DURBAN INTERnational Convention Center last September, members of India's lowest "untouchable" castes staged a hunger strike. They,were protesting their government's refusal to let the issue of caste come before the United Nations' World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance (WCAR).
On the terrace of the nearby convention-center hotel, meanwhile, their government's official delegates to the WCAR sat among the world's other ministers, presidents, and generals, lunching and chatting about cricket ...
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