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Navigating Whiteness in Australia's Anti‐Racism Movement: A Duoethnographic Inquiry by Women of Colour Scholars

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper applies Critical Race Theory (CRT) to explore how whiteness operates within Australia's anti‐racism movement as a structuring force that shapes discourse, practice and policy. Despite the anti‐racism movement offering crucial spaces for resistance and reform, it remains entangled in Australia's settler‐colonial present and systemic ...
Franka Vaughan, Aish Ravi
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Renewal through Participation in Global Food Security Governance: Implementing the International Food Security and Nutrition Civil Society Mechanism to the Committee on World Food Security [PDF]

, 2012
The food commodity price rises from 2006 to 2008 engendered a period of political renewal and reform in the governance of global food security. The Committee on World Food Security (CFS) was designated as the main international forum dealing with food ...
Barling, D., Duncan, J.
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Beyond Robodebt: Media Representations of Welfare and Fraud Before and After the Robodebt Royal Commission

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australia's Robodebt scheme, an automated debt recovery program introduced in 2016, was exposed by the Robodebt Royal Commission (RC) as a serious failure of public administration and source of significant harm for thousands of Australians. Through a critical discourse analysis (CDA) of Australian news media, this study explores whether the RC'
Rebecca Coleman‐Hicks, Georgia van Toorn   +1 more
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Social Responsibility of the Civil Society: Debatable Theoretical Issues (Part 2)

Социологическая наука и социальная практика, 2017
The article deals with the theoretical aspects of social responsibility of the civil society at a modern historical stage. The author critically analyzes concepts existing in Russian and foreign science on the selected research topic and expresses his ...
Evgeniy Ya. Vittenberg
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Goals for the rich: Indispensable for a universal post-2015 agenda [PDF]

The paper deals with the question of how a fair sharing of costs, responsibilities and opportunities among and within countries can be achieved in formulating and implementing a post-2015 sustainability agenda.
Civil Society Reflection Group on Global Development Perspectives
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A Civil Society Review of Progress Towards the Millennium Development Goals in Commonwealth Countries National Report: Ghana [PDF]

, 2013
This summary presents perspectives from civil society in Ghana on progress made and challenges experienced in relation to the national efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and the extent to which MDG processes have provided ...

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Nothing to See Here: Researching Non‐Recent Child Abuse in Schools and the Politics of Silence

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While institutions, including schools, have responsibilities to protect children from harm, responses to instances of child sexual abuse have often exhibited avoidance and denial. Recent public inquiries in Australia revealed that some institutions, particularly in the Catholic sector, employed a deliberate strategy of silence which was used ...
John Crowley, Katie Wright, Kate O'Connor   +2 more
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Islam and Civil Society

American Journal of Islam and Society, 2003
Book Reviewed: Sohail H. Hashmi, ed. Islamic Political Ethics: Civil Society, Pluralism, and Conflict. Foreword by Jack Miles. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2002. 227 pages.
Ibrahim Kalin
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Global Civil Society and the Challenges of Global Democracy

Journal of Modern Science
This article analyzes key phenomena and social processes related to the shaping of the global social space. This includes the development and specificity of global society, global civil society, and global democracy, as well as their interrelationships ...
Andrzej Niesporek
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CONSTITUTIONAL AND LEGAL REGULATION OF ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL ACTIVITY OF CITIZENS

Известия высших учебных заведений. Поволжский регион: Общественные науки, 2020
Background. By implementing legal regulation of civil society institutions, the state has a significant impact on the development of civil society itself. It is obvious that insufficient legal regulation of civil society institutions negatively affects
Yu. A. Puzentsova, Sh. G. Seidov
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