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  • Honduras regime seeks to disarm citizens ahead of polls

    Nov 20th, 2009 - The Raw Story

    The Honduran de facto regime on Friday ordered citizens to turn in their weapons in a bid to avert violence around disputed presidential elections to be held at the end of the month.

  • Swiss to hand over US names of wealthy UBS clients

    Nov 17th, 2009 - Reuters

    BERNE, Nov 17 (Reuters) - The Swiss Justice Department willhand over the names of wealthy U.S. clients of UBS (UBSN.VX)with accounts holding over 1 million Swiss francs ($986,200) incases of fraud and similar...

  • Obama warns of more crises if imbalances not tackled

    Nov 15th, 2009 - Reuters

    SINGAPORE, Nov 15 (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obamasaid on Sunday that the world economy is on the path torecovery but a failure to address policies that led toimbalanced growth will lead to further crises.

  • Mich. gov candidates call for new budget methods

    Nov 11th, 2009 - The Denver Post

    "People have lost that connection of seeing value for money from their government. This gets it back," Snyder said Tuesday in unveiling his budgeting plan. "Citizens are our customers in this...

  • Brazil's Lula: It's Too Early To Cast Blame For Blackout

    Nov 11th, 2009 - Wall Street Journal

    BRASILIA (Dow Jones)--Moving to deflect criticism over a massive blackout that affected 18 of Brazil's 26 states late Tuesday, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva urged...

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Citizenship is the state of being a citizen of a particular social, political, or national community.

Citizenship status, under social contract theory, carries with it both rights and responsibilities. "Active citizenship" is the philosophy that citizens should work towards the betterment of their community through economic participation, public service, volunteer work, and other such efforts to improve life for all citizens. In this vein, schools in some countries provide citizenship education.

In recent years, some intergovernmental organizations have extended the concept and terminology associated with citizenship to the international level, where it is applied to the totality of the citizens of their constituent countries combined. Citizenship at this level is a secondary concept, with rights deriving from national citizenship.

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