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...past two years, with little response from the authorities. "The most important aspect of these murders is not why the victims were killed or by whom, but the failure of the police to protect the powerless," says Swati Mehta, a consultant for the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, an NGO in New Delhi. "This case is indicative of how the police function in India, and how the system needs to be changed...
...Optimistic at first, Chayes joins forces with the family of future President Hamid Karzai to run an NGO dedicated not just to physical reconstruction, but to mending relations between Muslims and the West. "The window of opportunity seemed unparalleled," she writes. "Here was a Muslim country that had twice in two decades rid itself of tyranny thanks to U.S. assistance ... Afghanistan might be the place where some of the damage could be repaired." But with mounting frustration she chronicles the mistakes of U.S. officials who had no clear vision for the country once the Taliban were defeated. Promised reconstruction projects...
...Yunus' house and Grameen's headquarters in the capital Dhaka. "No one came to us, no one asked us how we do things, no one was interested for years," says Mohamed Ansaruzzaman, head of Grameen's International Program Department. "Now they all want to see what we do-journalists, NGO workers, diplomats." Weeks on, posters of Yunus still dot Dhaka. Reads one big banner, outside a suburban pizzeria: PROFESSOR MUHAMMAD YUNUS: WE ARE PROUD...
...Mali. He has been playing the djembe drum since his freshman year and, last year, helped start the Harvard College Pan-African Dance Ensemble. Riley said she intends to travel to Seychelles, an island chain in the Indian Ocean off the coast of east Africa, to work with an NGO on conservation and biodiversity through a local school. The school is one of the first in Seychelles for students with disabilities and will offer Riley the opportunity to work on issues relevant to her senior thesis on community-based learning. Tao, a biology concentrator who is also a Crimson editor...
...state and submit detailed plans about their activities; a second revises an earlier law that attempts to control political extremism. (Both were used against Dmitrievsky.) Putin has said that the extremism law will improve Russian security in an era of terrorism, while Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov asserts that the ngo legislation is actually less restrictive than similar laws in France, Finland and Israel. Foreign groups such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch that have reregistered say the process is cumbersome and bureaucratic, though so far only three foreign ngos have had their credentials rejected, and all can reapply...