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...says the Bank has learned from earlier mistakes, when dams benefited big investors and not the rural poor they were supposed to help - a point many environmentalists dispute. "It's arrogant to say that we've learned from the past," says Liane Greeff, who works for a South African NGO called the Environmental Monitoring Group and is highly critical of World Bank?backed dams in Africa. "We may have learned a little bit, but not enough to make things better for average people." The IRN's Pottinger says the dam lobby often labels concerned environmentalists - incorrectly - as antidevelopment. "Calling...
Warren said he ran to support an Afghani NGO called the Afghan Mobile Mini Circus for Children, which works to reduce the trauma of war for children. Warren set up donation collections at the race and also accepts donations through his website, unicycle4kids.org...
...mass media of NGO’s alleged “hidden” motives or their espionage goals. From the Soviet-era point of view, NGO’s activities look suspicious.Even more so than individual Russian citizens, the military, police, and security services are suspicious of independent NGO activity. And these forces, which tend to be comfortable under totalitarian or authoritarian regimes, have powerful positions in contemporary Russian politics. Largely through these military and security forces, and under the aegis of the “war against terrorism,” the Kremlin has created its own loyal...
...Zone-style phenomena. Instead, they’re hoping to identify extraterrestrial communication, in the form of light flashes from distant civilizations. But don’t look for ET and his friends to phone home any time soon. Bruce Betts, director of projects at the Planetary Society, the NGO funding the telescope, says, “I think it is realistic, but this is a gigantic haystack and we’re looking for a needle.” Betts admits that the project is based on several assumptions, “including that an advanced alien civilization...
...Such scenes are not new. "Ultras" - fans whose ardent devotion to their teams has often spilled over into violence - have long been a feature of the Spanish game. "This kind of behavior began 20 years ago in isolated incidents," says Esteban Ibarra, president of the Movement Against Intolerance, an ngo that monitors the incidence of racial abuse in Spain. "But it has spread, propagated through the media, and it has contaminated not just soccer stadiums but Spanish society at large." Indeed, racist insults at Spanish soccer games are now almost routine. A year ago, members of the same Zaragoza crowd...