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...environmental organizations are springing up, and Wen feeds them by allocating grants, typically $5,000-$15,000, provided by a Colorado charity called the Global Greengrants Fund. The sums may be small, but the impact is profound, says Nick Young, chief of the China Development Brief, which monitors mainland NGOs: "In his quiet way, Wen is one of the most important environmentalists in China. He's doing incredibly important long-term work to create a new generation of NGOs...
...agents of change: for the first time more than half the people in the world live under democracies; the spread of information technology has empowered individuals to pool their resources and make common cause at a speed and on a scale previously unprecedented; and, finally, nongovernmental organizations, or NGOs, have grown and become important agents of assistance. During the responses to Hurricane Katrina and the tsunami in Southeast Asia, citizen power was on full display, as the Internet provided a conduit through which enormous sums of money flowed from millions of people of modest means...
...French UNIFIL troops hand over to the queuing residents boxes of military rations, part of the peacekeeping force's own supplies but all they can offer given the inability of the Lebanese government and international NGOs to dispatch aid to the deep south. "We are okay in the village, but it's noisy outside," says Diah Bassar, 20. An understatement, perhaps. The sound of warfare is inescapable. The sharp crack of outgoing artillery rounds from Israeli positions just across the border is accompanied by the door-slamming sound of exploding shells nearby. Dirty clouds of smoke and dust blossom...
...advocacy for abused humans. Part of why the dog killing got so much attention is that unlike say, the number of people killed in a given mining accident, or the number of people executed for capital crimes, dead dog statistics aren't considered state secrets in China. Likewise, while NGOs in China that focus on issues like the rule of law or rights of workers have to tread carefully if they want to stay in business, people gathering to take in stray cats or protect pandas can operate freely. The coverage in the Chinese media served as a stark reminder...
...Jean is both of these things, she is now in serious danger.A few months ago, Jean’s fourteen-year-old daughter Dayaka was raped in Meheba Refugee Camp. She is now pregnant, out of school, and severely depressed. Her desperate mother has gone to the police, camp NGOs, and even UN representatives without any response. She has written countless letters to the leaders of these organizations, demanding justice, or even a chance for it. Instead, she has been scolded for speaking up at all. One UN employee, in response to the threats being made to Jean?...