Chile's Student Activists: A Course in Democracy
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SANTIAGO, Chile -- When the Class of 2006 graduates in a few weeks, its members will look back at a year in which some of the most important lessons took place outside the classroom.
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Â· Chile to deport former Peru president to stand trial Â· Human rights group celebrates unique victory
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The Chilean ruling on Peruâs former president, Alberto Fujimori, could set a precedent for human rights cases.
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The future of Mexico's young democracy lies in the hands of seven judges who have the final word on a disputed presidential election that has strained class divisions and threatened the nation's stability, with one candidate calling for millions to protest.
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University students have held a week of protests against President Hugo Chavez's decision to force a popular TV station off the air, and their emergence could be the birth of a new opposition movement.
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The core of democracy is tolerance of other people's views. Whether it is Rosa Luxemburg's call for respecting the "freedom of people who think differently" or Winston Churchill's pride in British parliamentary ...
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A youth movement seeks the ideological cultivation, some say indoctrination, of the first generation to come of age in post-Soviet Russia.
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TEHRAN -- A new movement of passive resistance is quietly sweeping young people in Iran, a response both to the reform movement's failure to introduce political and economic change and conservatives' control over who can run for office, according to Iranian student leaders and political analysts.
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - A Chilean appeals court ruledMonday that murder charges against former Chilean dictatorAugusto Pinochet in a major human rights case filed this monthcan move forward.
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - After 14 years in power,  Chile's ruling center-left coalition believes it needs to come  up with a sparkling new image or risk losing the 2005  presidential elections.
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Young people -- easily mobilized  through the Internet and mobile phone -- are a vocal and  radical force in Hungary&#39;s near-tribal political conflict, now  increasingly being fought out on the streets.
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - Thousands of teachers and   supporters marched peacefully through Chile's capital on   Tuesday to demand higher wages for educators, avoiding a repeat   of the violent clashes between students and police in June.
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Students at a college in Chile use a bespoke video game to learn about about team-building.
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The rise and fall of AIDS activist Li Dan and the Dongzhen School for AIDS Orphans illustrates a broader struggle: a battle by a wide assortment of citizen groups to establish civil society and influence China's government.
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Of 32 million voting-age Latinos, only 8 million voted in the 2000 election. Actress Rosario Dawson is trying to change that. Dawson, 25, and Latino youth advocate Phil Colon have together founded Voto Latino, a nonpartisan and nonprofit activist group that seeks to motivate young Latino voters.
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Comment is free: Isabel Hilton: Increasing numbers are speaking up against local tyrannies and corruption, and no longer can the state silence them.
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One of the primary goals of modern society is to enhance a worldwide commitment to democracy. With so many national differences concerning preferred electoral processes, it helps to have a general definition of a democratic government.