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Senators Urged To Protect NGOs Via Systems, Staffing, Sanctions

The NonProfit Times

In the past five years, 72 countries have introduced 270 measures restricting civil society,” Douglas Rutzen, president and CEO of the International Center for Nonprofit Law testified. “In Phase two involved passing anti-NGO laws despite public opposition. Repression of these organizations is becoming increasingly common. “In

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Kevin Danaher of Global Exchange Talks about the Global Citizen Center

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They build a building, and then they just fill it up, and there's an architecture firm, and a law firm, and whatever. What I am trying to create is a real estate model that captures that value, because if you look at the way most of these downtown buildings are, it's really stupid the way it is organized.

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Report: Conflict Has 114 Million People Displaced

The NonProfit Times

Two more countries – Bangladesh and Venezuela – were downgraded to the worst civic space category this past December. Long-established tenets of international human rights and humanitarian laws are being flouted. Some 118 countries now have serious civic space restrictions and only 2.1%