Case : Foreign Funding Of Civil Society

There were number of contraventions in this case. The first issue was regarding paying the 10% of proceeds as the carriage cost pertaining to the wheat contracts to Alia. This was later paid to the government. Alia was an intermediary company aiding in the completion of the overall dealings related to the case under analysis. Iraq was able to get the hard currency from this. Provisions were made to reimburse the payment portion received by AWB which further strengthened the ability to accumulate hard currency. In other words, the money from escrow account of UN was being used for purposes which were other than making payment for the commodities not permitted (Austin and Reynolds, 2012).

Amnesty international has done a lot of important things such as averting genocides and mass killing in many countries.

Almost a year ago, Egypt broke into civil unrest when protesters flooded Tahrir Square, demanding the end of Hosnia Mubarak’s regime. Although Mubarak stepped down within two weeks, Egypt is worse off today than it was last January. The Supreme Council of Armed Forces (SCAF), which played a vital role in the January revolution, has now become a violent and oppressive force. On the twenty-ninth of December 2011, the SCAF raided seventeen Egyptian, German, and US run NGOs in search of proof of illegal foreign funding.1 In a statement (A/HRC/18/NGO/77) submitted by the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS), the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR), and the Center for Egyptian Women’s

In the book "Night" it goes without saying that many of peoples' basic human rights have been compromised. "Night", if you don't know,

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is a not-for-profit organization whose specified mission is "to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States.” The ACLU operates under two separate associated nonprofit organizations: (one) as a social welfare group under the American Civil Liberties Union, and (two) as public philanthropy under the ACLU Foundation. Under the current leadership of Susan H. Herman, the ACLU continues to deliver on its mission to protect the American values and the Bill of Rights for all under the creation of new measures and a new era for all children, woman, and man. Susan and Anthony D. Romero, Romero is the executive

According to the courts documents, the fund was used for the sole motive of carrying out operational purposes. It was identified by the Federal investigators that Elshinawy shall benefit from a receipt of as much as 1,000 dollars from a particular source in Egypt. As and when agents questioned him, it was reported that Elshinawy had necessarily provided wrong information regarding the source of the cash and prior to the same it was acknowledged that the Egyptian contact was primarily ISIL operative.

Negative press, scandalous acts, and suppressive measures by the government all are risks in the modern, web-oriented world. While this is an unfortunate side-effect of technological progress in the West, the situation is trickier in authoritarian nations. While both democratic and non-democratic social movements rely on capitalizing people’s anger, high-risk does not begin to describe the pressure put on activists under governments with low civil rights. Activists in nations such as these need to pick their fights carefully; one wrong move and you plus any family members might be looking at arrest, imprisonment, torture, or execution. Such events have been seen recently in the Arab Spring, especially in regimes such as Egypt and Tunisia. While success has followed the movement in some of these countries, an unfortunately large number either fell into bitter fighting or clamped down on these individuals. And it is not limited to the Middle East, as Russia and China have proven very effective at controlling the populace’s efficacy to change society. And while pure momentum may help bring revolution to the Middle East the best course of action in stronger authoritarian governments is to practice rightful resistance, something that really only exists in non-democratic states. As exemplified in struggle of rural Chinese citizens to gain reforms, such actions are viewed as

The foundation’s announcement makes me wonder why the Clintons have never before cut off corporate and overseas money

In the United States, governments at the state and local levels are relying heavily on intergovernmental aid. Intergovernmental aid is fiscal aid that originates from another governmental unit in the form of revenue and grants. It can be reimbursements for general governmental functions or for specific services or projects. This means that aid in the US is flowing from the federal government to either state or local governments and from state governments to local governments. Aid from federal and state governments can come in several different forms such as direct aid that is awarded annually or through applied grants. Typically, states will apply for federal grants and then will distribute the funds to local governments. At the same time, local governments have the ability to apply for federal and state grants.

The Privacy Office of the DHS created rights to minimize the dangers to, and safeguards, the rights to privacy of U.S. citizens in the mission of homeland security. According to (Lansford, 2011) “the Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties provides policy and legal guidance on civil rights and civil liberties issues; These agencies were created to alleviate the fears and concerns of civil libertarians and ensure that the DHS does not violate citizens' civil liberties”. The National Infrastructure Advisory Council provides advice to security agencies on protecting critical information about the civil rights of citizens. The Interagency Coordinating Council on Emergency Preparedness and Individuals with Disabilities ensures the consideration

Recently, I have been exposed to a new organization called the Nonhuman Rights Project. Their goal is to transform the status of nonhuman animals from “things,” to “legal persons” by giving them essential rights. I am responding to the article “New York Judge Denies Request to Extend Legal Rights to 2 Chimps” by Jesse McKinley, in an effort for my voice to be heard.

A truth commission is a commission that is instated to reveal past misdoings of the public, government, non-state actors and the like; it is associated as typically the first step away from war or authoritarian rule. As seen throughout case studies, these commissions arise for different purposes; some truth commissions are what is chosen by the government to showcase breaches in human rights, rather than other constructive peaceful mechanisms. Although, these commissions do suggests recommendations (such as arrests, lustration, compensation and education), the country isn’t always required to do them. More so than that, these recommendations can fail the victims. A truth commission can fulfil all its duties in a hypothetical agenda, but justice

In this regard, Article 20, UDHR states that every person has the right to assemble peacefully and at the same time it is also been provided by this article that no one can be compelled to join an association. In the same way, Article 22, ICCPR also recognizes the freedom of association as a definitive statement in international law and provides that every person should have the right freedom of association with others and this right includes the right to form and join trade unions for protecting his interests. It also provides that no restriction may be placed on this right other than the restrictions that have been prescribed by the law and the restrictions that are necessary for protecting public health or morals or for protecting the rights and freedoms of other persons. In this regard, this article also provides that it shall not prevent the imposition of lawful restrictions on the members of armed forces and police in exercising this right.

Under that ‘state of emergency’, the government has the right to imprison individuals for any period of time, and for virtually no reason, thus keeping them in prisons without trials for any period. The political police may use intimidation, arbitrary arrest, torture and execution. It infiltrates other coercive agencies of the state, such as the regular police and the armed forces, to ensure their compliance. ” this state of emergency causing strong dissatisfaction of Egyptian, the citizens live under monitoring and political terror, human rights and political rights could not be gained.

A revolutionary wave of demonstrations and protests (both violent and non-violent), riots, and civil wars in the Arab World that began on 18 December 2010, later gained the heading “The Arab spring”. The Arab spring began by a twenty six year old boy named Mohammed Bouazizi was getting ready to sell fruits and vegetables in a rural town of Sidi Bouzid Tunisia. Bouazizi was the primary supporter for his widowed mother and six of his siblings. The entire incident originated when the police officer asked bouazizi to hand over his wooden cart, he refused the police women allegedly slapped him after being publicly humiliated bouazizi marched in front of a government building and set himself on fire. The Jasmine revolution in Tunisia, the shock wave swept across the country which threatened the stability of this oil-rich region with repercussion felt internationally. After the world witnessed what happened in Tunisia, it caused a spilled over into most of the Arab countries. Such as Egypt, Libya Syria and Yemen. Aim of this paper is to show that the current situation corollary of decades of failed policies, exacerbated by an unsolicited foreign intervention. The extensive consequences, I will argue, require cautious attention and careful management from international communities as well as the Arab human rights committee. This paper seeks to explore the profound causes that prompted the so called “Arab awakening” and the covert hidden agenda behind the sudden pro democratic