Word: ngo
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...years ago, Dr. Daniel Vasella, the Swiss CEO of pharmaceutical giant Novartis, told an American interviewer that his firm was going to have to spend a lot more time talking to NGOs. The journalist's response: "What's an NGO?" Let's hope he knows now. NGOs--nongovernmental organizations--have won significant influence over global companies. The demonstrations against global capitalism at the G-8 summit in Genoa were the latest manifestation of a trend that--mostly quietly and behind the scenes--is defining our age. From Home Depot (criticized for its use of tropical hardwoods) to Starbucks (attacked...
...Japanese companies report that young graduates ask tough questions about a potential employer's social practices. And European firms, with their more developed commitment to social responsibility, Edelman argues, are developing a "halo effect" among consumers worldwide. For American firms competing globally, that's a reason to know what NGO stands...
...presumptions of innocence in their case against six French humanitarian workers charged with trying to abduct 103 children - an operation Chadian investigators suspect may have been part of a clandestine adoption-for-pay scheme back in France. But each day brings additional allegations challenging the nature of the mission NGO Zoe's Ark claimed it was conducting in Chad...
...acknowledged the Oct. 25 operation to remove the children from Chad lacked required authorization, but say the urgency of getting the children care made rule-breaking expediency necessary. Zoe's Ark's French lawyer, meanwhile, has suggested there is a political motive driving Chadian leaders who initially denounced the NGO as a "pedophile" group using humanitarian cover for "child trafficking." Chad, the lawyer notes, has objected to a French-led deployment of European Union peacekeeping forces in eastern Chad to protect Darfur refugees, and could be exploiting the Zoe's Ark case to whip up anti-foreigner sentiment. Chadian leaders...
...suspicion that the placement of those 103 children with French families were permanent transactions? First off, all of the 103 families paid between $2,800 and $8,400 as part of the process of volunteering - that is, money to the NGO above whatever amount caring for the children will cost. Meanwhile, Chadian authorities say the Darfur children - taken from refugee centers administered by the NGO - showed no signs of hunger or illness that would make their departure urgent. Finally, with neither the nationality nor even exact identity of most children fully established, officials in Chad and France wonder...