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TN Ninan: Politics for winnersBusiness StandardThis may be just one more facet to the old divide between Dr Singh and his aides, on the one hand, and Sonia Gandhi and the NGO cabal that populates her ...

Bad smell precedes Yanukovych trip to BrusselsEUobserver.comEUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - A shake-down of leading NGOs and journalists by the Ukrainian security service in recent months has damaged President Viktor ...and more »

BellonaUS chides Kremlin over human rights and jailed activist in a new turn for the ...BellonaCharles Digges, 10/09-2010 On a wider scale, Washington has called on Russia to uphold human rights after jailing prominent rights activist Lev Ponomaryov. ...and more »

Once you let Big Oil in ...Opinion250 News (blog)... in the Southern US states - which have just witnessed the BP disaster in the Gulf of Mexico - or Africa, South America, Middle East or Central Asia. ...and more »

Women's Boxing World Championships Day 1 WrapTheSportsCampus.comHer compatriot Karin Dost also advanced on individual scores after her bout against Vietnam's Thi Ngo ended 6:6 after the regulation eight minutes. ...and more »

Central Asia OnlinePakistani women feel freer after Taliban's fallCentral Asia OnlineSuspected militants in Khar, Bajaur Agency, last year killed two teachers whose only crime was being female, he told Central Asia Online. ...

Dumped! The aid that didn't reach fire victimsThe Moscow NewsThese cases and others prompted questions about how exactly aid is distributed in Russia, and whether organisations in charge of it are sufficiently staffed ...

UN-backed radio station in DR Congo recognized for courageous reportingUN News CentrePrevious recipients of the Free Media Pioneer award include Novaya Gazeta of Russia (2009), the United States-based blog Talking Points Memo (2008), ...and more »

ACTmediaBanks start appraising €4bn loans for NabuccoACTmediaNGO group CEE Bankwatch Network pointed out that the pipeline would cross protected Natura 2000 sites at 12 points in Hungary alone. ...and more »

EU warns Israel over anti-NGO billEUobserver.comThe legislation requires that any spokesperson of an NGO declare in all public appearances that they receive funding from a "foreign political entity". ...and more »

Environmental groups target Canadian oil sands ahead of Pelosi meetingThe Hill (blog)NGO's unlike the industries and corporations they try to destroy have never made an investment that creates employment, have never paid taxes, ...and more »

Mother Nature NetworkRussian Winter Olympics host town faces waste problemMother Nature Network(Photo: Streeter Lecka/Getty Images) Russia's 2014 Winter Olympics host Sochi is facing an apparently insurmountable problem over how to dispose of millions ...and more »

Ukraine secret police question top opposition politicianEarthtimesShe likewise played down news reports SBU agents in recent weeks had targeted pro-democracy NGOs operating in Ukraine, saying there had been "some visits ...and more »

Review of construction sector in Azerbaijan (January-July 2010)Trend News Agency (subscription)In July, prices for construction materials in Baku declined by 0.48 percent compared to June, the NGO Property Market Participants said. ...and more »

Constitutional confusion after Moldova referendumEUobserver.comAfter Ukraine's return into Russia's sphere of influence, the result of Moldova's presidential referendum is seen as another victory for Moscow's steady ...and more »

Social activist in sandalsHa'aretzParents of toddlers, families at risk, people with disabilities, elderly people from the Caucasus and Ethiopian Israelis - all benefit from ...

CosmoworldsSelected Fashion Public Prosecutor of EuropeCosmoworldsA grouping of fashion NGO / Think-Tank starts new working season with an open procedure for extending through official invitations to all European countries ...

AFPWaste alarm in Russian Winter Olympics host townAFPMOSCOW — Russia's 2014 Winter Olympics host Sochi is facing an apparently insurmountable problem over how to dispose of millions of tonnes of garbage with ...and more »

Kashmiri Marginalities: The Construction, Nature and ResponseRising KashmirSince funding to NGO's is channeled through the Indian elite, based in Delhi, they exercise substantial influence on how 'civil society' in its NGO avatar ...and more »

PAKISTAN - IOM, Partners, Direct More Shelter Supplies to SouthReliefWeb (press release)That leaves over 6.92 million people living in extreme conditions without basic shelter," says IOM Regional Representative for West and Central Asia Hassan ...