Aid workers made to leave Sri Lanka under strict new visa rules

Aid workers in Sri Lanka are faced with strict new visa rules making it difficult for them to extend their visas to stay in Sri Lanka. One foreign national working for Forut was deported on Saturday and another employee of Forut denied re-entry to Sri lanka last month. Some...

Hmong refugees at risk of humanitarian crisis - MSF withdraws

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), or Doctors without Borders as they are otherwise known, runs the risk of creating a humanitarian crisis if it goes ahead with plans to withdraw from a Hmong refugee camp in Northern Thailand in protest at the Thai governments treatment of...

Operation Pathway

Pakistan's stock was never so low in the international community as is now. The country is a favourite target of media, NGO's and the official circles in Europe and the US. The refrain is that Pakistan is a sanctuary of terrorists, an epicentre of terrorism and a direct...

Have NGOs failed in peacebuilding? An interview with Jehan Perera

"Based on his significant experience as a civil society activist, I asked Jehan whether NGOs in particular had fostered any appreciable difference in the quality of governance in Sri Lanka. Jehan stated that after a quarter century of working in civil society, he was acutely...

Ape Lankawe: The Great NGO Pantomime!

"The Government’s scant regard for the plight of Tamil civilians in Vanni is legendary and their stubbornness in pursuing the military objective at the expense of every thing else is a given. But the NGOs could have been more realistic in their estimations and scenario...

You Want To Become A Paralegal? Read This Article

It was In the early days of the Paralegal profession that only the law firms employed Paralegals, today firms and corporations including government agencies employ Paralegals to facilitate legal research, legal documents drafting, debriefing of clients and to generally...

Trend Alert: Israel War To Ignite World War III

" " Israel War to Ignite Terror, Threaten Global Economy and possibly Spark World War III, Trends Institute Warns " By Gerald Celente 1-15-9 CAIRO, 14 January 2009 ­ Israel’s invasion of Gaza sets up the United States and any other nation supporting Israel as terror...

Ten NGOs Helping People Around The World

The end of 2008 is near.  We are in the darkest months of the year.  It is easy to see only bad news on the horizon.  In spite of the gloomy predictions for the globe, there is hope and goodness in...

Jodhpur Charity For Blind School India

Netraheen Vikas Sansthan (Blind School Jodhpur-Rajasthan-India )is working for rehabilitation of blind students since last 31 years in Suncity Jodhpur by providing free education with boarding and lodging facility separately for boys and Girls. The School was started on 15th...

UN agency appeals for $140 million to feed Zimbabweans in crisis

" 9 October 2008 – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today appealed for $140 million to feed some 4 million Zimbabweans over the next six months, warning that without more funds, the agency will...

A Teacher Accused Of Child Abuse in the Maldives

"A Qu’ran teacher has been reported to police for allegedly sexually abusing a seven year old child on Baa atoll Thuladhoo, and remains at large pending the investigation into his case. The child’s family...

Canada seeks industry, not consumer input on secret treaty

Canadians who have a any notion that we are some sort of bastion of civil rights need to stop kidding themselves. Uncer the current Harper regime, Canadians have seen the erosion of civil risghts and core democratic principles. Well we really have no one to blame but...

Zimbabwe’s Relief Ban Harms People With HIV

"June 10, 2008 Zimbabwe’s Relief Ban Harms People With HIV  In the aftermath of  Zimbabwe’s government recent suspension of humanitarian relief efforts, many nongovernment organizations (NGOs) that had been offering AIDS services in the...

US quits Human Rights Council?

As human right is not my beat  - I'm more a casual observer - there isno context for me to use in interpreting what the hell this means. Butwhatever it means it doesn't sound good. Those of you who are smarter at this should feel free to comment yourbuns off on this one....

Tjahjo Kumolo: American NGO in Papua uses double standard

""Activists of the US NGOs in Papua are operating for humanitarian relief and serving the US economic interest in the Asia Pacific region. It is obvious in the statement made by Eni Faleomavaega and Donald Payne of the US Congress," he told ANTARA News on Thursday. Based on...

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