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<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><B><FONT face=Arial size=5><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 16pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Secretary General of <I><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">CIVICUS: World Alliance </SPAN></I></SPAN></FONT></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><B><I><FONT face=Arial size=5><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 16pt; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">for Citizen Participation</SPAN></FONT></I></B><B><FONT face=Arial size=5><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 16pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">, a global network </SPAN></FONT></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><B><FONT face=Arial size=5><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 16pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">of civil society organisations, </SPAN></FONT></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><B><FONT face=Arial size=5><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 16pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">with more than 1000 members in 110 countries,</SPAN></FONT></B></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT face=Arial color=#3366ff size=4><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: #3366ff; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">‘Civil society - where is it heading? Community organising? Trans-national advocacy? Issues in the debate’, hosted by Australian Volunteers International and Victoria University School of Social Sciences </SPAN></FONT></B><B><FONT face=Arial color=#3366ff size=4><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: #3366ff; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT></B></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT face=Arial color=#3366ff size=4><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: #3366ff; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Thursday 6 December, 7 - 8pm. <SPAN> </SPAN>Light refreshments to follow </SPAN></FONT></B><B><FONT face=Arial color=#3366ff size=4><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: #3366ff; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT face=Arial color=#3366ff size=4><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: #3366ff; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Venue: Australian Volunteers International, </SPAN></FONT></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT face=Arial color=#3366ff size=4><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: #3366ff; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Frank Engel Room, 88 Kerr St, Fitzroy </SPAN></FONT></B></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT face=Arial color=#3366ff size=4><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: #3366ff; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Please RSVP by 5 December to Marguerite Simpson, ph 03 9279 1788 or <A href="mailto:msimpson@australianvolunteers.com"><FONT color=#3366ff><SPAN style="COLOR: #3366ff">msimpson@australianvolunteers.com</SPAN></FONT></A> </SPAN></FONT></B></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT face=Arial size=3><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Kumi Naidoo is a well-known public intellectual and activist in South Africa, a veteran of the Anti-apartheid movement since the age of 15 (which included a term in prison) and a Rhodes scholar at Magdalen College, Oxford University in 1989. During the democratic elections in 1994, Kumi was the official spokesperson of the Independent Electoral Commission and directed the training of all electoral staff in the country. </SPAN></FONT></B></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT face=Arial size=3><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Kumi was founding Executive Director of the South African NGO Coalition (SANGOCO) and in 1999 was appointed Secretary General of the Washington DC based <I><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation</SPAN></I>. He massively broadened the base of this organization and supervised its transfer to Johannesburg, South Africa. Kofi Anan appointed him to his Eminent Persons Group on UN-Civil Society Relations,</SPAN></FONT></B></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT face=Arial size=3><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Since 2005 Kumi has also chaired GCAP, the Global Call to Action Against Poverty of which the Australian member coalition is ‘Make Poverty History’. </SPAN></FONT></B><B><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT></B></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">For further information contact</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Arial size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Dr Helen Hill,</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">School of Social Sciences,</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">St Albans Campus<SPAN> </SPAN>9919 2298</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><A href="mailto:Helen.hill@vu.edu.au">Helen.hill@vu.edu.au</A></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">For further information about CIVICUS see<SPAN> </SPAN><A href="http://www.civicus.org/">www.civicus.org</A></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV></FONT>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2><STRONG>Dr Helen M. Hill,</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><STRONG>Senior Lecturer Sociology - School of Social Sciences,</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
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