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"The recent crackdown on foreign-funded non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Egypt has sparked a new round of diplomatic hand wringing over Washington's long-standing military aid program."
"THE CRISIS in U.S.-Egyptian relations caused by the prosecution of American-backed nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and their employees has been partly defused — but in a way that may do as much harm as good. "
"Egyptian authorities became the target of national wrath on Friday, the day after American and other foreign pro-democracy workers were whisked out of the country in a chartered plane to ease a diplomatic crisis between Washington and Cairo."
"U.S. Senators John McCain (R-AZ), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), John Hoeven (R-ND) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) released the following statement regarding the decision today by the Egyptian judiciary to lift the travel restrictions on American and other foreign employees of international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Egypt. The senators visited Egypt last week as part of a Congressional delegation."
" Two United States-financed nonprofit groups paid about $4 million in bail on Thursday to fly 11 employees out of reach of Egyptian courts in a deal that capped weeks of bruising diplomatic wrangling and set off a new outpouring of anti-American denunciations here. "
A confusing controversy between the United States and Egypt is unfolding. It has already raised tensions in the relationship between the two countries to a level that has not existed for decades. It results from moves by the military government in Cairo to go forward with the criminal prosecution of 43 foreigners, including 19 US citizens, for unlawfully carrying on the work of unlicensed public interest organisations that improperly, according to Egyptian law, depend on foreign funding.
All three of the lobbying firms representing the Egyptian government in Washington, D.C., dropped Egypt as a client late Friday amid widespread criticism of the ruling military council's raid of U.S. NGOs in Cairo and its refusal to let American NGO workers leave the country.
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The trio came under fire last week for circulating talking points defending Egypt's Dec. 29 raid of several NGOs working to train political parties in Egypt, including three organizations partially funded by the U.S. government. The groups had been working in Egypt for years without being technically registered with the government, but now stand accused of fomenting unrest against the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), which has been ruling the country since Mubarak's ouster.
On December 2, the Geneva-based UN Watch welcomed that day’s “strong condemnation” of Syria by a UN Human Rights Council emergency session, and its establishment of a special rapporteur to monitor the situation there
طرح المستشار محمد الدمرداش المستشار القانونى لوزارة التأمينات والشئون الاجتماعية ووكيل مجلس الدولة مشروع القانون الجديد للجمعيات الأهلية اليوم الثلاثاء، وأعلن أن الوزارة ترحب بتلقى جميع المقترحات لتضمينها فى المشروع اعتبارا من اليوم 17 يناير ولمدة 15 يوما وذلك على عنوان الوزارة بالعجوزة أو الاتحاد العام للجمعيات الأهلية.
Even charitable work can be a sensitive matter in Arab regimes if it highlights the state's failure to provide basic services
Egyptian soldiers and police stormed pro-democracy offices on Thursday, targeting groups critical of the military rulers while reinforcing activists' charges that the military's harsh tactics are no different from those of the deposed regime of Hosni Mubarak.
Human rights organizations have called on the ruling Supreme Council of Armed Forces to allow a new constitution ahead of parliamentary and presidential elections scheduled for September and December, respectively.
"تعلن الجمعية المصرية للنهوض بالمشاركة المجتمعية عن:
اعتزامها مراقبة الاستفتاء على التعديلات الدستورية والمقرر له يوم 19 مارس 2011 وذلك بالجهود التطوعية, وإذ تأمل الجمعية في إجراء استفتاء يتسم بمعايير النزاهة والشفافية وفقا للقيم والأصول الديمقراطية واحترام إرادة المواطنين، كخطوة فاعلة في سبيل تقدم مصر ونهضتها, تهيب الجمعية بالشباب المصري صاحب انقي ثورة في التاريخ والذي قدم نموذجا أثار إعجاب العالم أن يساهموا معنا في مراقبة الاستفتاء على التعديلات الدستورية."
One year on from the earthquake that devastated Haiti, it may still take a decade just to clear the rubble if work continues at its present pace. Meanwhile the poor suffer, the rich profit, and the show is run by NGOs and other outsiders
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Unlike the once solid buildings of now devastated Port-au-Prince, the grip of politicians and notables who have strangled Haiti for two centuries managed to withstand the earthquake. They’ve even stolen the word “reform”, which framed the social movement’s projected rebuilding of the institutions and state structures, and emptied it of meaning. For the moment, “reform” equals “staying just the same”.
"Describing and theorizing “the new imperialism” in international relations, this volume presents anthropological and sociological viewpoints on the topics of militarism and militarization; humanitarian interventionism; the responsibility to protect; Canada’s role in the occupation of Afghanistan, and the establishment of what is effectively a protectorate in Haiti; the role of NGOs in the formation and management of a new global imperium; and, soft power."
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Specific case studies are also devoted to the U.S. Army’s Human Terrain System; the U.S. Army’s Africa Command (AFRICOM); torture and international law; Coca Cola in Colombia; the NATO war in Kosovo; cultural militarization and “militainment;” and, the rising militarism in Canadian public discourse.
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The geographic scope of the volume includes Algeria, Afghanistan, Canada, Colombia, Ethiopia, Somalia, Iran, Kosovo, Kuwait, and the United States.
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"A parliamentary investigation could lead to the dismantling of some rights groups accused of undermining the legitimacy of Israel's government by documenting alleged misconduct by Israeli forces during last year's Gaza war."
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