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Representatives from Baha'ism, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Shintoism, Sikhism and Taoism will unveil programmes that "could motivate the largest civil society movement the world has ever seen," said UN Assistant Secretary General Olav Kjorven.

Byline: datta03 There is a growing civil society movement against the new uranium mining and nuclear power plants in India.

AaThe workshop was held at Hotel Le Crillon in Broumana and was organized by the Civil Society Movement with the collaboration of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation.

Priya Krishnaswamy's Fractured Pasts, Shared Futures speaks of the incipient possibility of civil society movements to become agents of change in Kashmir.

Byline: 'Long march' was a vibrant civil society movement that took on political overtones The 'long march' in Pakistan, which brought a coalition of lawyers, social organisations and political activists to the streets in protest against President Asif Ali Zardari's attempts to stifle the judiciary's independence, has projected Nawaz Sharif as a champion of democracy.

He said the restoration of Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry and other deposed judges was a big success of lawyers and civil society movement and an opening of positive change.

He made his remarks at a gathering at Bashir's residence with representatives of Sudanese political powers and civil society movements.

The democratization of civil society movements has strengthened public debate and the electoral processes.