Looking for young journalists for global civil society event!

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In September, CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation,
international civil society groups, donors and government representatives
will unite at 10th CIVICUS World Assembly in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. This
year four young journalists from developing countries have the chance to
attend the largest gathering of civil society activists in the world in all
expenses paid prize. Read below to see how you can win and find information
about the keynote speakers of the event.

What is the prize?

Through a full bursary (including travel, accommodation and registration),
the four journalists will have full access to all keynote plenary sessions
and activity sessions that will take place at the Youth Assembly on 8
September and at the World Assembly on 10-12 September.

They will also have unique one on one opportunities to interview all keynote
speakers.

How do you qualify?

You qualify if you are an active journalist who:

* Has a background in covering civil society
issues (such as development effectiveness, new technologies, democratic
space and climate justice)

* Are a citizen of a developing country

* Are between 18 and 30 years of age.

The journalist will also have a thoughtful and feasible dissemination plan
to use their reports as a tool to raise awareness of the human rights or
social justice issues explored at the event with a goal to bring about
change.

While creative freedom will be left to the individual journalist, they will
be required to report on a minimum of two sessions per day in the language
of choice (Spanish, English, and French).

How to apply?

To apply for this prize, submit your CV, a writing sample and a 250 word
article on why it is important for civil society to engage with the media to
***@***.*** before
15 June 2011.

The chosen journalists will be informed before 30 June 2011.

About the 2011 World Assembly

The CIVICUS World Assembly is the premier global gathering of civil society
organisations, donors and representatives of government, international
institutions and business to seek collaborative ways to strengthen the
rights of citizens around the globe. This year, the focus is on the
essential role of civil society in global decision-making. As governments of
varied ideological persuasions crack down ever more harshly against dissent,
challenges to their authority or lack of accountability and basic freedoms
of expression and association, it is clear that civil society needs to come
together in order to strengthen our ability to act for a more just world.

Under its overarching theme of "Acting together for a just world", the 2011
World Assembly will focus on "Civil Society and Global Decision-Making:
Doing It Better" through a programme divided in four thematic tracks:

* Development Effectiveness

* Climate Justice

* Connecting People through Technology

* Civil Society and Democratic Space

For more information, visit
www.civicusassembly.org.

The 2011 Speakers

Matt Dunne
Head of Community Affairs, Google Inc.

Matt Dunne, is the Manager of Community Affairs for Google, acting as a
liaison between the company and communities around the world. He promotes
productive partnerships between the private and public sectors, and plays a
critical role in maintaining local corporate social responsibility. Matt
attended Brown University and majored in Public Policy, graduating in 1992.
He served four terms in the Vermont House of Representatives, two terms in
the Vermont State Senate, was the Democratic candidate in the 2006 Vermont
Lt. Governor's race. As the Director of the AmeriCorps*VISTA program, an
organization that oversees over 6,000 full-time volunteers in the fight
against poverty, he continued his strong commitment in engaging youth in
government and community service. He was also Associate Director for the
Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy where he oversaw programs to
prepare young people for careers in non-profit management and public service
including the Policy Research Shop.

Kumi Naidoo
Director General, Greenpeace International, South Africa

Kumi Naidoo became Greenpeace International Executive Director in 2009.
Born in South Africa, Kumi became involved in the country's liberation
struggle at the age of 15. As a result of his anti-apartheid activities, he
was expelled from high school. He was very involved in neighbourhood
organisation, youth work in his community, and mass mobilisations against
the apartheid regime. In 1986, Kumi was arrested and charged for violating
the state of emergency regulations. He went underground for one year before
finally deciding to live in exile in England. During this time he was a
Rhodes scholar at Oxford and earned a doctorate in political sociology. Kumi
became the founding executive director of the South African National NGO
Coalition (SANGOCO), an umbrella agency for the South African NGO community.
Moved by the fact that South Africa has one of the highest rates of violence
against women, Kumi organised the National Men's March Against Violence on
Women and Children in 1997.From 1998 to 2008, Kumi was the Secretary General
and Chief Executive Officer of CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen
Participation.

Kelly Rigg
Executive Director of the Global Campaign for Climate Action (GCCA)

Kelly Rigg is the Executive Director of the Global Campaign for Climate
Action (GCCA), a global alliance of 250 organizations cooperating under the
banner of the tcktcktck campaign. She has been leading international
campaigns for nearly 30 years on climate, energy, oceans, Antarctica and
other issues. She was a senior campaign director for Greenpeace
International during 20 years with the organization. After leaving
Greenpeace she went on to found the Varda Group consultancy providing
campaign and strategic advice to a wide range of NGOs, and led the Deep Sea
Conservation Coalition's campaign to protect the high seas from destructive
bottom fishing

Anabel Cruz
Founding director from the Institute for Communication and Development,
Uruguay

Anabel Cruz is the Founder Director of ICD (Communication and Development
Institute), a research centre and NGO support organisation in Uruguay.
Anabel has a long history in working to strengthen citizen participation in
Uruguay and all over the world. She has conducted extensive research into
the role of civil society, particularly non-governmental organisations
(NGO), in building democracy and citizenship and their participation in
development processes in the Latin American post-dictatorship era. She has
collaborated in research work aimed at generating adequate social indicators
and in the impact evaluation of development projects in the Americas and
elsewhere. She has advised Consumers International and other international
networks on implementing and evaluating development, information and
communication projects, as well as United Nation specialised agencies and
European cooperation agencies. Annabel Cruz is a member of ISTR
(International Society for Third Sector Research), founder of the National
Association of NGOs in Uruguay and the International Foundation El Taller.
She is currently a board member of PTF, the Partnership Transparency Fund.

Maina Kiai
Executive Director of the International Council on Human Rights Policy

Maina Kiai is the Executive Director of the International Council on Human
Rights Policy. A lawyer, advocate and film-maker, he has spent the last
twenty years campaigning for human rights and constitutional reform in Kenya
- notably as founder and Executive Director of the unofficial Kenya Human
Rights Commission, and then as Chairman of Kenya's National Human Rights
Commission (2003-2008), where he won a national reputation for his
courageous and effective advocacy against official corruption, in support of
political reform, and against impunity following the orchestrated violence
that convulsed Kenya in 2008, causing thousands of deaths. Trained in law at
Nairobi University and Harvard, Maina has spent periods in London as
Director of Amnesty International's Africa Programme (1999-2001) and in the
United States as Africa Director of the International Human Rights Law Group
(now Global Rights, 2001-2003). Most recently he has collaborated with the
Movement for Political Accountability, Voxcom Ltd, and InformAction, using
television and film in imaginative ways to inform and educate Kenyans across
the country about their rights.

Mozn Hassan
Executive Director of Nazra for Feminist Studies, Egypt

Ms. Mozn Hassan is the founder and Executive Director of Nazra for Feminist
Studies ( www.nazra.org) since December 2007.
Nazra is a youth initiative to integrate gender and feminism in the Egyptian
society Her research interests range from combating violence against women,
to history of feminism in Egypt, to early child marriage. She has an MA from
the American University in Cairo with a thesis on "Legal Interpretations to
the Right to Divorce and Polygamy and the Egyptian Feminist Movement". Ms.
Hassan serves as Egypt advisor with the Global Fund for Women and as UNDP
project formulation consultant with the project "Combating Female Genital
Mutilation". She is also a consultant with African Women's Development and
Communication Network- FEMNET in a study of Promoting African Women's
Economic Empowerment through Gender Responsive Trade Agreement. Her
forthcoming published articles include Islamic interpretations for women's
issues and the availability to create Islamic feminism movement, Muslim
brotherhood case study" Democracy Review and a research on Early Child
Marriage with Women Living Under Muslim Laws- Africa and Middle East Office.

Alancay Morales
Youth Association of Boruca (ASJOB)

Alancay Morales , is the youth coordinator of Kus Kura S.C, an Indigenous
NGO in Costa Rica working on the promotion of sustainable development of the
indigenous peoples in the region. He belongs to the indigenous people of
Boruca-Terraba. He is also the leader of the Youth Association of Boruca
(ASJOB), and has participated in a series of events, national and
international as an indigenous representative.

Jay Naidoo
Chairman of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), South Africa

Jay Naidoo is Chairman of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)
an international organisation head-quartered in Geneva, Switzerland,
committed to addressing malnutrition facing two billion people in the world.
GAIN is a public-private partnership that brings together UN Agencies,
private businesses, philanthropic organizations, Governments and civil
society around practical programmes in close to 25 countries in the world. A
leading anti-apartheid activist, Jay was also the founding General Secretary
of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu), the country's
largest federation of unions, which played a leading role in the struggle
for freedom in South Africa. From 1994 to 1999, he was Minister in the
President's Office responsible for the Reconstruction and Development
Programme and later Minister of Communications in President Nelson Mandela's
cabinet. In 2000, Jay co-founded the J&J Group, a management and investment
Company with interests in the financial services, ICT, Energy and
infrastructure sectors. In 2007 the company setup the J&J Group Development
Trust to work on a range of development projects in the health, education
fields. Currently, Jay sits on a range of international advisory boards and
is recipient of numerous awards including the Chevalier de la Legion
d'Honneur from the French Government in 2006. He is married to award-winning
writer and journalist, Lucie Page, and considers his three children as his
greatest achievement.

Miguel Palacín Quispe
Coordinador General de la Coordinadora Andina de Organizaciones Indígena
(CAOI)

Miguel Palacin Quispe, an indigenous leader Quechua of Peru, is the first
General Coordinator of the Andean Group of Indigenous Organizations(IOTC).
Orginally from the Community of Vicco, located in the Pasco region in the
Peruvian central Andes, he founded the National Confederation of Communities
Affected by Mining in Peru (CONACAMI) in 1999 with indigenous leaders from
communities affected by mining. This organisation has challenged the
economic policies of extractive industries. Miguel Palacin Quispe fights for
the rights of indigenous peoples in Latin America, for the recognition of
their diversity of and their inclusion in political decision-making through
the development of intercultural public policies.

Hamouda Soubhi
Executive Director of the Morrocan Network for Euro-Mediterranean NGOs

Hamouda Soubhi is the Executive Director of the Morrocan Network for
Euro-Mediterranean NGOs. He is both a co-founder of Alternatives in Montréal
and of the Forum des alternatives Sud in Morocco. He sits on the Governance
Council of Alternatives International and plays an essential role within the
Liaison Commitee of the International Council of the World Social Forum. He
is Alternatives International' representative into Alternatives Board.

Everjoice J. Win
Ms. Everjoice J. Win, Head of Women's Rights, Action-Aid International

A feminist - activist from Zimbabwe, Everjoice J. Win has been active in the
women's and social justice movements in Zimbabwe and the African continent
for the greater part of her life. She has worked with the Women's Action
Group and the pan-African Women in Law and Development in Africa, and served
as consultant to many local and international NGOs. At ActionAid
International Everjoice is the head of one of the organization's six human
rights themes - women's rights. Based in AAI's international secretariat in
Johannesburg, she provides overall strategic leadership, guidance and
support on policy, campaigns, and campaigns. Ms. Win previously served as a
Commonwealth Technical Advisor to the Commission on Gender Equality of South
Africa. She has served on the boards of several civil society and women's
rights organizations, including; as co-founder of the pro-democracy National
Constitutional Assembly of Zimbabwe; the Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition, Women
and AIDS Support Network, the Association of Women's Rights in Development.
Miss Win is a writer and contributor to newspapers, magazines and journals.

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