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    Carter Center is a not-for-profit, NGO founded in 1982. It works to advance human rights and alleviate human suffering. It’s governed by a Board of Trustees consisting of prominent educators business persons, philanthropists, government officials,etc. The NGO undertakes activities to support individuals and nations striving to realize the civil rights and responsibilities enumerated by the U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights and a growing body of public international law. "Courageous and

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    Ngo Dinh Diem In Vietnam

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    was then divided into North VIetnam and South VIetnam. North Vietnam was under a communist role backed by the Soviet Union and North VIetnam was under a democratic role backed by the United States. Ho Chi Minh rose to power in North Vietnam as did Ngo Dinh Diem in South Vietnam. IN 1961, many SOuth Vietnamese had come to distrust Diem. They feld that Diem favored the wealthy and ignored the peasants. Many of these peasants joined the Vietcong, who were guerillas who opposed Diem. Their influence

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    developmental goals (SDG) that aim to transform our world. These goals are to be met through numerous different means, government policies, public change, non-government organizations (NGO) and a variety of other ways. NGO’s are a large way to help meet these goals and impact the world for the better. LRBT, an NGO that focuses on eye care for those who live in Pakistan, focuses on meeting the goal ensuring healthy lives and wellbeing for all at all ages (United nations SDG, reference). Ensuring eye

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    Past three decades of NGOs in China Non-governmental organization (NGO) is not an organization of government or a conventional for-profit business. In China, NGOs are silently different from the definition of general NGOs in which some of them have closer link with the government. There are two types of NGOs in China-“officially organized NGOs” and “popular NGOs”. The former are initiated by the government and the other one are initiated by private citizens and receive no government subsidies. However

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    Asim Muneeb Khan, A.Hameed (MSC SOCIOLOGY 1st) International NGOs Working In Pakistan: Oxfam International Head office in Pakistan : House no.201, Street No.10, E-7, Islamabad. Phone No. : 051-2653341, 051-2653491 Working on: Community welfare, Social and Economic Development, , Education, Natural disasters, Democracy, Human rights, Climate change, Livelihoods, Health, HIV/AIDS, Gender equality, Poverty , Injustice. Etc. The Oxfam International Secretariat leads, facilitates, and supports

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    THE NGO THAT I HAVE CHOSEN IS THE WOZA MOYA ORGANISATION 1. DISCUSS THE REASONS FOR THE FORMATION OF THE ORGANISATION Woza Moya was initiated by Sue Hedden who in 1998/9 was called to assist when the running of the kitchen at the Buddhist retreat centre which was assisting the Buddhist and Zulu speaking and so the workers would go to her for advice in helping them with problems they faced in their work place. They mentioned their desire to learn to speak English. Sue had been trained in adult literacy

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    Introduction According to Ahasan, Abu, and Katy (13), NGOs or non-governmental organizations are settings staffed by volunteers and altruistic employees who work with missions of satisfying ideologies rather than ends of financial interests. Donors are the sources of the NGOs funding. NGOs are the best hope for the poorest people in the world since poverty is a global disaster and with their support, it is a stepping stone for the affected nations to eradicate poverty (Sandhya, 2). For the attainment

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    Pauling Ngo Short Story

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    Pauling Ngo was 13 years old when she and her family were on a cruise. On the cruise with her mom and dad, two older sisters and one younger brother. The cruise would take them Past the Amazon jungle- Which is known to be the world's largest jungle. The jungle is located in Brazil and is Crisscrossed by over a thousand rivers. Pauling was walking around on the cruise ship and having a great time. "I wish this cruise would never end' She thought. As Pauling went to sleep that night she was awaken

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    How environmental NGOs use the media to shape global environmental issues Even though there have been greatly public concerns about environmental issues since 1960s, practical action as the solution seems to be useless due to the limitation of state and pressure from the corporation. Moreover, the function of international organizations has also faced with difficulties in terms of enforcement and regulation; therefore, there has been wide gap between actors responding to the environmental issues

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    Role of NGOs/Civil Society Groups With the ever increasing population of India, it becomes all more important for NGO’s to come up and plug the gaps left by government. As of now, India has around 33 lakhs NGO’s in India. That amounts to 1 NGO per 400 people. A lot of times NGO’s are setup for tax evasion and misappropriation of government funds but still a large number of NGO’s do good work and there are NGO’s doing positive work in every sector. NGO’s play a huge role in nation building. 90% of

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