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Friday, 15 December 2017 Foreign Funds for NGOs under attack in India
India鈥檚 Central Bureau of Investigation has targeted the NGO Advantage India and its staff, charging they have violated the country鈥檚 Foreign Contribution Regulation Act. The complaint alleges the NGO misused social corporate responsibility funds that were collected for educational and social activities in India. The Foreign Contribution Regulation Act was set up to regulate foreign conributions to NGOs, political parties and educational institutions. It has been used to withdraw the operating licenses of Greenpeace India and other organizations the government has deemed to be involved in anti-development activism and other issues. Whatever the merits of the case against Advantage India, the regulation of foreign funding can easily turn into a witch hunt for credible NGO's. From the Hungary鈥檚 NGO Law Challenged by European Commission The European Commission is taking Budapest to the bloc's top court, the Luxembourg-based European Court of Justice, over its NGO laws as well as a higher education law that targets a university founded by U.S. financier George Soros, a public enemy of Prime Minister Viktor Orban. The move is welcome as it says to EU members like Hungary that legal action is always on the table to enable NGO's to perform their services for people. From Indian NGO raises $4 million for education of children "It's my firm belief that when you educate girls and women in society, the society changes. Women have this tremendous power of actually changing the sociocultural fabric of countries." That statement was made by N.V. Tyagarajan, President and CEO of Genpact, at an annual US-India NGO event at which Pratham, one of India鈥檚 largest non-governmental education organizations, raised more than US$4 million to provide education to underprivileged children. The education of women and girls in India has been a priority of NGOs, which have shown that Indian women accomplish a great many of things when they get fair and equal treatment. From the Photo courtesy of Greenpeace India via Flickr |
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