NGO, NPO

2016-05-03 08:39:16

NGO tells UN: Israeli torture of Palestinian, Ethiopian, migrant detainees ...

An NGO told the UN Committee on Torture in Geneva on Monday that while Israel has made certain improvements in recent years, that its apparatus still tortures and abuses Palestinian detainees, as well as shining a new focus on what it says is the same ...Read more

2016-05-03 05:15:00

Kurdish NGO joins UN assemblies

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region (Kurdistan24) – A Kurdish organization will be representing the Kurdistan Region in the United Nations (UN) assemblies. Dindar Zebari, Head of the Kurdistan Regional Government's (KRG) Committee for Monitoring International ...Read more

2016-05-03 23:26:15

Highlights of the Foreign NGO Management Law

On April 28, 2016, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress adopted the Law of the People's Republic of China on the Management of Foreign Non-Governmental Organizations' Activities within Mainland China (hereinafter “Foreign NGO ...Read more

2016-05-03 09:19:35

41 rag pickers rehabilitated by NGO

Fourteen-year-old Anand (name changed) looked pale and anaemic, while sitting in the corner of a boys' shelter. He had been coughing continuously. “He has been diagnosed with tuberculosis, and is getting weaker,” said R. Vasantha, project coordinator ...Read more

2016-05-03 15:33:45

Chennai NGO's Reflective Collars Save Dogs & Cattle From Being Run Over

It's late at night. You're making your way back home after a long day at work and are driving through a particularly dark stretch when you see a flash of white appear in the middle of road in front of you. You realise that a stray dog has dashed onto ...Read more

2016-05-04 00:44:10

Davide's reelection bid gets backing from NGO

MEMBERS of the National Auxiliary Chaplaincy Philippines (NACPhil) announced their support for the reelection bid of Gov. Hilario Davide III. NACPhil, a non-government organization composed of religious leaders from different denominations all over the ...Read more

2016-05-02 21:56:15

Israel: NGO report to UN experts says still no prosecution of torturers in ...

2 May 2016 – Israel continues to use torture and not to prosecute offenders in the name of “necessity defence”, the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI) and World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) denounced in a report published ahead ...Read more

2016-05-02 14:48:45

Nigeria: Anambra Central Senatorial Poll - NGO Petitions NJC Against Justice ...

The fight for the Anambra Central senatorial election between the immediate past National Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Chief Victor Umeh, and a former Anambra State governor, Mr. Peter Obi, has taken a new turn with a ...Read more

2016-05-02 22:52:30

Miss Nigeria, Leesi Peter-Vigboro teams up with Sebeccly Cancer Care NGO for ...

On Wednesday, April 27th 2016, current Miss Nigeria Leesi Peter-Vigboro teamed up with the Non-Governmental Organisation Sebeccly Cancer Care on the “Am I at Risk?” Breast Cancer awareness campaign and education seminar tagged “5C's and Sex” ...Read more

2016-05-02 09:11:15

Maharashtra among top four child labour states, finds NGO survey

Maharashtra figures among four states with the highest concentration of child workers, according to NGO Pratham, which released its survey of street children in Mumbai on April 30, observed as Anti-Child Labour Day. The other states are Punjab, Andhra ...Read more