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...humanitarian organizations in international affairs? I put more faith in nongovernmental organizations than in state governments, rogue or otherwise. The Red Cross, Amnesty, Oxfam, Human Rights Watch - no national politician would ever get a mandate to create such an institution, because they're all external. There are hundreds of NGOs and there are some very good ones among them. They're our best hope for the future...
...Chiclets (the name comes from CHLCs, or "Coalition Humanitarian Liason Cells") are the hot item in America's anti-terrorism campaign in Afghanistan today. Self-described as the "Peace Corps with guns," they carry out high-impact aid missions the locals want and the U.N. and NGOs have somehow missed. Thirteen teams operate across the country right now, with more than 300 projects in the works ranging from building roads and bridges to supplying schools. Chiclet-5 is a typical team: five of its members are civilians, reservists out of the Knoxville-based 489th Civil Affairs Battalion, while the sixth...
...importantly, its governing board is dominated by the companies who have it in their best interest to continue to use sweatshop labor. Indeed, the 175 member colleges and universities share a single seat on the board, while each of the corporations on the board gets its own seat. Many NGOs and universities actually committed to fair labor practices dropped out of the FLA, and for good reason: can anyone really trust these companies to hold themselves to ethical standards given their track records? And as to the FLA’s track record, they have yet to produce a single...
Neela Marikkar, spokesperson for SriLankaFirst, and Martha Segura, director of the Colombian Confederation of NGOs, agreed that the greatest challenge the U.S. faces in combating terrorism is in understanding the other side’s claims...
...promulgate anti-Israeli propaganda. Because of these mixed motives, more U.N.-based humanitarian aid projects exist in places like the Occupied Territories and other geopolitical hotspots while those less controversial, like much of Africa and Asia, are left to Doctors Without Border, the International Red Cross and other humanitarian NGOs. Even within peacekeeping missions, political motivations dominate. The Balkans region received thousands of peacekeepers during its conflict due to Western nations’ domination of the Security Council. Conversely, the Security Council was unable to fully support a weak peace-keeping operation in Rwanda in April 1994, when the first...