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It's not apathy, it's strategy: how young people are reinventing civil society
Equal Times
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August 12, 2025
Far from apathetic, young people in countries such as Spain are strongly mobilised around very specific and urgent causes. The climate crisis is perhaps the most prominent: inspired by global movements such as Fridays for Future, thousands of...
Civil society forum protests ICICI Bank’s minimum balance hike in savings accounts, writes to govt
The Hindu Business Line
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August 11, 2025
The bank has raised the minimum balance requirement for new savings accounts opened on or after August 1 by five times to ₹50,000. | Photo Credit: FRANCIS MASCARENHAS A civil society organisation advocating banking stakeholders’ interests has...
Civil Society Forum Protests ICICI Bank's Minimum Balance Hike In Savings Accounts
Free Press Journal
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August 11, 2025
Kolkata: A civil society organisation advocating banking stakeholders' interests has written to the Finance Ministry, requesting its intervention into ICICI Bank's decision to raise the minimum average balance (MAB) requirement for new savings...
A Theory and Practice of Civil Society—And How It Can “Show Up” Today
The Nonprofit Quarterly
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August 11, 2025
The specter of fascism haunts the United States. In President Donald Trump, it has found not its first, but its most effective and destructive host. The core value of civil society is to nourish and enrich communities to ensure that the needs and...
Visions of an English civil war
New Statesman
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August 13, 2025
Last year, amid the riots that followed the Southport murders, the great sage Elon Musk prophesied that civil war in Britain was “inevitable”. So far, he’s been proved wrong, but then prophets can claim they’re just not correct yet. A year on,...
Good Morning: Civil War Roundtable to host Aug. 18 meeting
The Herald Bulletin - Indiana
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ANDERSON — The August meeting of the Madison County Historical Society Civil War Roundtable will be held at 7 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 18, at the Museum of Madison County History, located at 15 W. 11th St., Anderson. Historian Gib Young will give a...
Facial recognition technology not about ‘total surveillance society’ – minister
Northern Scot
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August 13, 2025
Rolling out more facial recognition vans is not intended to create a “total surveillance society”, the policing minister has said. Dame Diana Johnson said she believes the public would back the police’s use of live facial recognition cameras, if...
Civil groups call for independent commission to probe Zara Qairinas death
Free Malaysia Today
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August 12, 2025
(First to fifth from left) Sungai Petani MP Taufiq Johari, Miri MP Chiew Choon Man, Tuaran MP Wilfred Madius Tangau, Muar MP Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman, and Segamat MP R Yuneswaran holding up copies of the memorandum outside Parliament today....
Tunisia trade union defiant after president backs 'corruption' claims
Citizen TV Kenya
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August 11, 2025
The head of a powerful Tunisian trade union confederation called on Monday to defend the group after protesters backed by President Kais Saied levelled harsh accusations against it. The protest last week, which the Tunisian General Labour Union...
Unicef engages civil society ahead of HPV vaccination campaign
Ghana Broadcasting Corporation
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August 11, 2025
By Francis Abedi The United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) has engaged civil society organizations (CSOs) in Kumasi in preparation for the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination campaign scheduled for next month. The campaign aims to vaccinate...
Christian-specific groups not included in Civil Society Covenant
Premier Christianity News
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The Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy has been accused of discrimination against Christians and other faiths after appointing the head of a Muslim charity as an adviser on a new social cohesion project. Other specific faith groups will not be part of...
Comment: Trump’s civil commitment order comes close to correct
Herald - Washington State
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August 13, 2025
Dallas Morning News Editorial Board Given all of the news these days, relatively little notice was paid to a July 24 executive order from President Donald Trump titled “Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets.” As with many pronouncements...
DOJ Claims George Washington U Violated Federal Civil Rights Law
Inside Higher Ed
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The Department of Justice said Tuesday that George Washington University was “deliberately indifferent” toward Jewish students and faculty who said they faced antisemitic harassment and had violated federal civil rights law that bars...
#EndBadGovernance Activists, Groups Vow To Join Forces Against Nigeria’s Oppressive Elites Ahead Of 2027 Polls
Sahara Reporters
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Nigerian activists, labour leaders, and civil society groups have vowed to join forces, strengthen grassroots mobilisation and form united front against Nigeria’s oppressor ruling elites ahead of the 2027 general elections. They made the vow...
Group urges domestication of FOI Act in Rivers
Peoples Gazette
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August 14, 2025
A civil society organisation known as Connected Development has called for the domestication of the Freedom of Information Act in Rivers. The state support officer for the group, Charles Uffort, made the call at a one-day training workshop for the...
Finally, reforms?
Philstar
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August 14, 2025
August 15, 2025 | 12:00am Livestreaming of the entire budget deliberations, including those in the Chamber of Secrets where all the hocus-pocus takes place, the bicameral conference. Civil society representatives, particularly those with budgeting...
Minister seeks long-term solutions to humanitarian needs amid aid cuts
Peoples Gazette
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August 14, 2025
The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Reduction, Nentawe Yilwatda, has called for a transition from short-term relief efforts to long-term, sustainable strategies in addressing humanitarian needs across Nigeria. Mr Yilwatda made the...
West Africa Revives Regional Water Council to Boost Cooperation
News Ghana
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August 14, 2025
Dakar hosted the first extraordinary session of the Sub-Regional Water Resources Consultation Council (CRCRE) this week, uniting ECOWAS and UEMOA states, basin authorities, and civil society groups. The July 10–11 talks focused on accelerating...
Nationwide rally in solidarity with Gaza scheduled for Friday
Maldives Voice
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A nationwide rally will be held tomorrow evening in solidarity with the people of Gaza, as part of the "Global Sumud Flotilla" movement. The event is organised by a special steering committee led by the International Aid Campaign (IAC), in...
Edo Bye-elections: Don’t dare rig polls – CSO warns INEC
Daily Post
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August 14, 2025
Ahead of Saturday’s August 16th Edo bye-election, a civil society group has warned the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to ensure a free, fair, and credible exercise. The CSO also alleged that there is a plot by the ruling All...