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Pan-African solidarity with Haiti 22nd January 2010, Johannesburg,South Africa The earthquake that recently struck Haiti has caused unprecedented devastation and suffering to the country and its people. Thursday’s aftershock aggravated an already grave humanitarian crisis. Across Africa, government, church, business and civil society leaders are mobilizing support for the people of Haiti. In South Africa, CIVICUS and its partners, African Monitor, Trust Africa, the Southern Africa Trust, Charity Aid Foundation (CAF) Southern Africa, the South African Red Cross Society; the National Welfare Forum; and Ivan May through 1485 Radio Today on 1484 AM in Jozi and through SADC (also DStv 169), and the Synergos Institute have agreed to join what is known as the “Africa for Haiti Project” and to help in co-ordinating efforts. Read the full text of press release here. To support this cause visit: Africa for Haiti: www.africaforhaiti.com/ African Monitor:www.africanmonitor.org Trust Africa: www.trustafrica.org See SABC's news coverage of the Africa for Haiti press conference here. Additional media coverage will be posted shortly.
Building the relationship between civil society and the media: how you can get involved! Do you sometimes think that your civil society organisation would have been able to shed some light on the latest news story – if only you’d been asked? Do you want to make the expertise of your organisation more accessible to the media? If yes, you’ll want to take part in this initiative. CIVICUS, in collaboration with the Inter Press Service (IPS) is developing a database to facilitate the relationship between civil society and the media. This database will contain the names and contact details for civil society organisations as well as their fields of expertise and the regions in which they work. The database will allow the media to quickly and easily find sources for their stories within civil society on a wide variety of themes. If you would like to be part of this database, please complete the form. If you have any questions, please email us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .  “From Political Won’t to Political Will”: A CIVICUS publication examines political will for active citizen participationDrawing on an inspiring collection of first-hand experiences from around the world, “From Political Won’t to Political Will”, a new publication by the South-Africa headquartered CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation examines why political will for participatory governance is lacking and what can be done about it. It identifies strategies and actions that have proved effective in nurturing political will and outlines what citizens, civil society actors, elected representatives, and government officials can do to build broad-based support for citizen empowerment and participatory governance. To read more information about this publication, click here. To read the press release, click here. |
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CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation is an international alliance established in 1993 to nurture the foundation, growth and protection of citizen action throughout the world, especially in areas where participatory democracy and citizens' freedom of association are threatened. For more information, click here.
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