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...interview on Nov. 8 with Dr. Ali Alyami, Executive Director of the Center for Democracy and Human Rights in Saudi Arabia, a Washington-based NGO, Alyami told me the Saudi people’s false hopes for genuine reform in their country were shattered. “The people will have no voice, only the princes will determine who’s going to be the king. So this puts an end to all of the speculations about King Abdullah being a reformer,” Alyami said...
...Numbers 60% Estimated proportion of Afghan women forced to marry against their will, according to a recent survey conducted by the NGO Womenkind Worldwide 57% Percentage of women in Afghanistan who married under...
...simply warning shots," says an American who watched the scene through binoculars. "The reality is that they were taking direct aim at people trying to cross the pass." As the mountaineers looked on, the guards allegedly shot dead one Tibetan?later identified by the Washington D.C.-based NGO International Campaign for Tibet as Kelsang Namtso, a 17-year-old Buddhist nun?while the others scattered. Shortly after, Chinese border guards marched through the base camp with about half a dozen Tibetan children they had apparently captured...
...more room for Iranians who advocated democracy, and more room for stories about their efforts. When I was asked to co-write the memoirs of Shirin Ebadi, the Iranian Nobel laureate and human rights defender, I didn't think twice. That was before the government banned her NGO, a clear sign they were not interested in putting up with her anymore. Now when she calls, I babble about my dogs, anxious to hang up. She's taught me a lot about what to do if I ever end up in prison, but I'd like to avoid putting that knowledge...
...better or worse, allows people to start over. In the aftermath of the disaster, Tisna Nando, a 35-year-old environmentalist from Indonesia's North Sulawesi province, saw that kind of clean-slate opportunity. As an education-and-awareness manager at Fauna & Flora International (FFI), a U.K.-based environmental NGO, Nando has worked for the past two years to help the people of devastated Aceh province create a better future for themselves by learning to live in greater harmony with their surroundings...