countries into "words preferred by Northern supporters" (Benessaieh 74). In other words, southern actors must 'fit' the issues of their nations into the "frameworks of their Northern-based interlocutors," thereby erasing and suppressing southern values and priorities in the process of conforming to the norms and values of hegemonic western-liberal societies (Benessaieh 74).This power asymmetry and hegemonic status of northern actors and ideas within NGOs, as part of an international, non-state community, lead Benessaieh to conclude that a 'global civil society' is an "imagined" and "highly asymmetric terrain of social action" where southern actors have restricted access and lack an equal voice (70; 84). Thus, coloniality not only furthers the impossibility of democracy in the institutional domestic and international sphere but also within the non-governmental, global community.
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