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...Obviously our preference would be to get a document the Sunnis could sign," said the director of an international NGO involved in the constitutional process. But if the Sunnis decided not to support it but still participated in the referendum-if only to vote it down-"that would be great because then it becomes a democratic contest over the rule...
...Number of Iraqi civilians killed since the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003, according to London-based NGO Iraq Body Count...
...than 2,000 years, India is the birthplace of three major religions?Buddhism, Hinduism and Sikhism?while Christianity and Islam arrived with empires that ruled the country for centuries. All left their monumental marks, from temples to palaces. The Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage, a private NGO based in New Delhi, counts 70,000 historic monuments across the country, and R.P. Pereira in the New Delhi office of UNESCO?whose World Heritage Committee meets this week in Durban, South Africa, to review global conservation efforts?calls India "the world's biggest heritage site." But even conservationists like...
...woman going with me-she’s a volunteer here with a humanitarian NGO as well-has been here a few weeks longer, so she is the one squinting into the dark looking for the right set of headlights. Suddenly, something on one of the side roads emits a flash and a roar-I look up to see not the bus but someone in a reflector-taped crossing-guard vest waving wildly at us, shouting in our direction. “I think someone’s calling you, Elisa...
...consultant for Human Rights Watch (HRW). "These people are not just fleeing war, but also forced labor, executions, mass relocations and systematic rape," he says. HRW accuses Thailand of "violating international law" for denying basic humanitarian assistance to the Shan. A recent report by the New York-based NGO also documents the murder, rape, enslavement and brutal displacement of hundreds of thousands of civilians during the Burmese army's long-running assault on Karen insurgents; some 650,000 people, says HRW, have been made homeless in eastern Burma alone. The junta has dismissed allegations of army atrocities against ethnic minorities...