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Burma publishes first of five new election lawsOpen DemocracyBurma Campaign UK, an NGO pushing for human rights and democracy, has already stated that “this demonstrates the generals will dominate the entire process”. ...and more »

The News in BriefMessenger.geGeorgian NGO Human Rights Priority has sent yet another lawsuit to the Strasbourg Human Rights Court, this one against the Georgian and Russian Governments. ...and more »

EU's visit to Gaza is 'poke in the eye' for IsraelEUobserver.com... assassination]," Alastair Crooke, a former EU advisor on the Middle East who currently runs the Conflicts Forum NGO in Beirut, told this website. ...and more »

India TalkiesThe dead end of Obama's no-nukes dream? - Ron Rosenbaum - Slate MagazineSlateAnd then I remember the sudden chilling dispatch from the Global Security Newswire (a subsidiary of the Nuclear Threat Initiative, an NGO formed by Sen. ...Japan Pledges Abstinence As US Reviews Nuke PostureJournal of Turkish Weeklyall 192 news articles »

PRIZES FOR CALLE AND HATOUMArtforumThe Russian NGO Memorial, which specializes in Soviet historical research, has promised to counter by installing panels detailing the crimes of Stalin. ...and more »

Cluster bomb ban moves forwardThe Japan TimesAccording to NGO Handicap International, civilians make up 98 percent of cluster-bomb victims, and almost one-third of them are children. ...Banning Cluster Bombs: Light in the Darkness of ConflictsMedia For Freedomall 3 news articles »

RadioFreeEurope/RadioLibertyDo Central Asia's Gender Quotas Help Or Hurt Women?RadioFreeEurope/RadioLibertyAlina Hamatdinova, the executive director of an NGO called the Civic Alliance of Kazakhstan, says there is an "unofficial agreement" in her country that ...

Banning Cluster Bombs: Light in the Darkness of ConflictsMedia For FreedomMy NGO text of August 1979 for the citizens of the world on “Anti-Personnel Fragmentation Weapons” called for a ban based on the 1868 St Petersburg ...

New York: no place for women in actionOpen DemocracyWhy on earth were we, the NGO women, not told this months ago? It feels like betrayal - and even deceit. We do come here, of course, not only to influence ...and more »

VanguardExtra-judicial killings in Nigeria on the rise – OttehVanguardThere were awardees from Centre for Independent Social Research – St. Petersburg Russia, Mahila SEWA Trust – Gujarat India, Caribbean Natural Resource ...

India to submit IPR report to US trade representativeBusiness StandardCommenting on the development, Prabir Purkayastha, chairperson of New Delhi-based NGO Society for Knowledge Commons said the government's decision to make ...

Clandestine, not confidentialForthOne NGO in particular, the US-based National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is an obvious cat's paw for US government interests. How sinister one finds the ...

Responses to International Women's DayFinancial Express BangladeshBeginning as an experiment in 1982 by a local NGO in a single upazila with the USAID financial assistance under the supervision of the Asia Foundation, ...and more »

Hijacking the UN's Human Rights MissionFrumForumThe Geneva-based NGO UN Watch has released a new report highlighting the UN Human Rights Council's (UNHRC) most significant shortcomings. ...