Word: ngos
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...already ruffling feathers, particularly in Latin America. One Honduran lawmaker went so far as to call it “a threat to the national legislation of my country.” The new policy, then, runs the risk of a backlash that would limit the ability of NGOs funded by the United States to provide non-abortion-related services...
...Policy helped to shift the global family planning debate away from abortion and toward education and prevention. Various forms of prophylactic birth control—from the rhythm method to chemical contraceptives—are cheaper and safer, and they pose fewer ethical problems than abortion. Increased support for NGOs that use or advocate abortion as birth control will only lead to more abortions...
...Libyan government continues to imprison people for criticizing Gaddafi. Hundreds more have been 'disappeared.' Libya has no independent NGOs and the government tightly controls all forms of public expression." - Reed Brody, Brussels-based lawyer with Human Rights Watch, on his lack of enthusiasm regarding Gaddafi's new responsibilities in the African Union...
...Like his father before him, Kim Jong Il rules on the strength of "symbolic capability," says Song Dae-sung, president of the Sejong Institute, a South Korean think tank. "North Korea idolizes a single leader. Kim Jong Il's bad health and leaflets being sent by anti-North Korea NGOs in the South to the North Korean people are undermining the solidity of the ruling system." Song says heightened tension between the two Koreas helps to strengthen "the internal solidarity of [Kim Jong Il's] regime." (See the doctored pictures of Kim Jong Il after his reported illness...
...network of access roads, the discriminatory legal regime, the pass laws, arbitrary arrests, house demolitions, targeted assassinations, torture, and everyday military control as necessary for the security of the settlements (viewed as illegal everywhere but in Israel), and to protect against terrorism inside Israel. The international human rights NGOs such as Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, the United Nations that have denounced Palestinian terror tactics have unanimously condemned Israel on many occasions for violating the human rights of the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza...