NGO Forum

Reuters posted an article titled, “Foreign NGOs on back foot as new Chinese law looms.”  The article reads in part as follows;

“Foreign organisations including social and environmental advocacy groups fear they could inadvertently break broadly defined new rules that take effect in China next month, with some even shutting up shop to avoid such pitfalls.

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s administration has made sweeping changes to Chinese law in the name of boosting national security, including a controversial cybersecurity law passed last month and another targeting foreign non-governmental organisations (NGO), slated for Jan. 1.

TIME magazine posted an article online titled, “3 Key Lessons to Starting a Successful NGO, According to an Effective Poverty Fighter.” The article reads in part as follows;

“A cyclone in 1970 that killed hundreds of thousands of people in Bangladesh changed the course of Sir Fazle Hasan Abed’s life and the lives of the 140 million his anti-poverty organization has since reached.

At the time of the disaster, he saw bodies of men, women, and children floating in the shallow waters of a bay.