NGO Forum

ABC News posted an article online titled, “The Latest: Egypt’s president ratifies law restricting NGOs.” The article reads as follows;

“The Latest on developments in Egypt (all times local):

7:15 p.m.

Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi has ratified a law which heavily restricts the registration and work of non-governmental organizations.

The law, which el-Sissi signed on Monday, gives security agencies extensive power over the financing and activities of NGOs.

The World Health Organization published a news release titled, “Major research funders and international NGOs to implement WHO standards on reporting clinical trial results.” The article reads in part as follows;

“Some of the world’s largest funders of medical research and international non-governmental organizations today agreed on new standards that will require all clinical trials they fund or support to be registered and the results disclosed publicly.

Euobserver published an article titled, “EU parliament shelves NGO funding proposal.” The article reads in part as follows;

“The European Parliament has postponed a report that aimed to step up scrutiny on the EU’s financing of NGOs, after Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban compared it to a controversial Hungarian bill.

The coordinators of the budgetary control committee decided on Thursday (4 May) to ask the European Court of Auditors for a special assessment regaring EU funding of NGOs before proceeding with the report.

TIME published an article online titled, “3 Key Lessons to Starting a Successful NGO, According to an Effective Poverty Fighter.” The article reads 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.