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...with the Palestinian government (however indirectly) in order to convey the depth of America’s disapproval of Hamas. But the U.S. has made its disgust with Hamas abundantly clear in a variety of other ways, including refusing to engage it diplomatically. Maintaining aid to moderate, reformist Palestinian NGOs will hardly undercut that message; it will in fact reinforce...
Most fundamentally, after vocally supporting democratization in the Middle East (and Palestinian elections in particular), the U.S. has an obligation not to retaliate immediately against the Palestinian people for their democratic choice. Cutting aid to NGOs and entrepreneurs in the West Bank and Gaza before the Hamas government takes any meaningful action would be a thinly-veiled attempt to retaliate against Palestinians for choosing Hamas over Fatah. Maher Awartani, a Palestinian-American youth participation specialist at a USAID-funded project in Ramallah, rightly notes that cutting such funding in response to the recent elections would demonstrate to Palestinians that...
...never been publicly released. A copy obtained by Time documents dozens of examples of child sexual abuse - from underage prostitution to the manufacture of child pornography, child sex tourism and marriages of convenience. The report has been in the hands of the Solomon Islands government and ngos, as well as Australia's AusAID, for more than a year. It calls for an investigation of the allegations, tough countermeasures including a comprehensive child protection law, rapid tightening of existing laws against child abuse, regulation of the hotel industry, and a police crackdown on the exploitation of children. But most...
...yesterday that 75 percent of condoms dispensed in India are not used for sex. Sandip R. Sukhtankar, a PhD candidate in the economics department, told a group of about 30 undergraduates at a forum on “action research” that condoms, often distributed by nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) for free in India, provide highly-valued lubrication for use on spindles in the sari-making industry. Sukhtankar’s point served to underscore the importance of quantifying the sometimes-uncertain impact that NGOs have on the developing world. The forum, called “How To Turn Economic...
...problem. That's why the Prime Minister is open to talks with any opposition leader, anyone from the protest movement, so we can come up with a good solution. We admit some things need to be improved. Public participation in the political process could be better. This includes academics, NGOs, local governments. We need to control corruption and improve transparency in the bureaucracy. But if 100,000 protesters can come onto the streets and ask for any government member to resign, next time they'll do it again. Then how can we develop a mature democracy...