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...have seen in previous years how some government grants have been given to NGOs with political ties to parties in government," says Hashem Assaf, spokesman for the NGO Coordination Committee in Iraq, an umbrella group that represents 52 international and national bodies, including Oxfam and Mercy Corps, as well as more than 200 local affiliates. "We, as NGOs, are trying to remain independent." (See TIME's 2005 Persons of the Year: The Good Samaritans...
...Assaf, the NGO representative, acknowledges that there are "corrupt elements" and for-profit associations masquerading as civic groups but says that clamping down on the majority because of a minority is unfair. The security situation is a convenient excuse for ulterior motives. "We speak of a new democratic Iraq that has put the ways of the old regime behind it, but at the same time there are things that make you think that the government wants to try and control NGOs," he says...
Still, that's exactly what Assaf says the NGO Coordination Committee in Iraq hopes to do. It plans to continue advocating against articles in the law that he says will hamper its work. "We are supposed to be building a new Iraq," he says. "We don't want it to just be a slogan...
...speakers, Nisreen Abdallah, a youth director at OneVoice Palestine, and Roi Assaf, a youth director at OneVoice Israel, spoke about their personal experiences living in Palestine and Israel during the conflict...
...Assaf also spoke about his experiences while he was serving mandatory military duty. At one point, he described his feelings after an incident during which one of his soldiers almost killed a Palestinian over a misunderstanding...