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...good NGOs,” Chissano said, “are those who come and put their activity in harmony with the policies of the countries where they work.” He said the bad NGOs “create conflict instead of resolving...
...Hendropriyono told reporters last Thursday that up to 20 other nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) are being closely monitored by security authorities. "Should we find that these people are continuing to sell out their country, we may return to the old measures," he said, referring to the days of strongman Suharto, during which NGOs were tightly controlled and their workers routinely jailed. As for Jones, whose visa expires on June 10, she continues to press for a renewal but isn't hopeful. Still, she says, even if she's obliged to move to another country in the region, "That's certainly...
Thanks to the Global Gag Rule, a pernicious Reagan policy reinstated by the Bush Administration, foreign NGOs that use their own funds to perform abortions, offer abortion counseling or lobby for legalizing abortion in their countries are denied U.S. aid. The White House has blocked funding to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) —a key international family planning care provider—for two years running on charges that they finance abortion services in China. (UNFPA denies the charges and their story was recently corroborated by an independent delegation of experts...
...Bangladesh's drift toward mayhem threatens to undo several decades of solid progress made by one of the world's poorest countries. Thanks to a slew of innovative ngos and a committed cadre of government social-welfare workers, the nation has achieved impressive gains in fighting poverty and slowing the growth of its population. A thriving textile-export industry fills American supermarkets with made-in-Bangladesh T shirts and sweaters, and many Bangladeshi millionaire textile exporters drive about the streets of Dhaka in new Mercedes-Benz. But for all its achievements, the country has also seemed like a political experiment...
...outside? Surely not, but the plan can hardly be accused of imposing anything. Rather, the G8 programs would provide funds and technical assistance to Arab men and women working to create change internally: everything from journalism scholarships to micro-enterprise loans; from election monitors, to grants to pro-democracy NGOs and academic centers for women...