According to a December report by the Corporación Nuevo Arco Iris NGO, 473 FARC-EP guerrillas and 357 members of the Colombian security forces died in combat between January and September 2010.

According to the Fundación País Libre anti-kidnapping NGO, an estimated total of 6, 778 people were kidnapped by FARC between 1997 and 2007.

According to the Grupo Gay da Bahia, Brazil's oldest gay rights NGO, the rate of murders of homosexuals in Brazil is particularly high, with a reported 3, 196 cases over the 30-year period of 1980 to 2009 ( or about 0. 7 cases per 100, 000 population per annum ).

According to the NGO Memoria y Justicia, the squad killed 26 in the South and 71 in the North, making a total of 97 victims.

According to the one of Iran analyst's of International Crisis Group ( a NGO founded in 1995 by World Bank Vice-President and former US diplomats ), " Kurds, who live in the some of the least developed parts of Iran, pose the most serious internal problem for Iran to resolve, and given what they see next door — the newfound confidence of Iraqi Kurds — there's concern Iranian Kurds will agitate for greater autonomy.

According to the One World Trust's Global Accountability Report 2008 which assessed a range of organisations in areas such as transparency, stakeholder participation and evaluation capacity, " IFOAM is the highest scoring international NGO, and at the top of the 30 organisations this year with a score of 71 percent ".

According to a 2003 estimate by the NGO Coordination Committee in Iraq, the population was 1, 230, 140.

According to some US NGO reports, there were also several hundred Iranian Revolutionary Guards assisting the Bosnian government during the war.

According to the NGO UN Watch, Syria's candidacy would be virtually assured of victory due to the prevailing system of elections.

According to American non-governmental organization ( NGO ), Freedom House, these reforms consolidated Russia as a politically non-free, authoritarian state since the mid-2000s.

According to The Guardian, these include the U. S. State Department and USAID along with the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, the International Republican Institute, the NGO Freedom House and George Soros's Open Society Institute.

According to NGO Monitor, a self-described monitor of Israeli civil society, foreign government funding constituted about 67 % of the total budget (~ 4 million NIS ) in 2007, and about 56 % in 2009.

According to the international NGO Free the Slaves, some of the reasons these activities persist despite anti-slavery and anti-trafficking laws is the lack of funding for law enforcement, the lack of a strong social stigma against the practice, and the lucrative nature of the business.

According to its statutes, JEF is a non-partisan and non-denominational European NGO.

According to an Amnesty International report from 2009: " In June, the Estonian Security Police Board published its annual report which made serious allegations against the Legal Information Centre for Human Rights ( LICHR ), an NGO promoting and defending the rights of those belonging to linguistic minorities.

According to the NGO Memoria y Justicia, the squad killed 26 in the South and 71 in the North, making a total of 97 victims.

According to the NGO Memoria y Justicia, " it is believed that Lagos ’ denunciation brought a halt to the spiral of murders.

According to the NGO, a Palestinian without a permit will be classified as an " infiltrator ".

According to NGO Monitor HaMoked budget in 2000-2001 equalled to $ 2, 837, 000.

According to a 2011 article in The Forward, HaMoked received, in 2009, $ 300, 000 from the " Ramallah-based NGO Development Center ( NDC )" which in turn, had received funding from the " Geneva-headquartered Welfare Association.

According to the community, their tragedy is comparable in scale and intensity only with the genocide faced by the indigenous people of the Americas.

According to an article by Nicholas Wade published in the New York Times, genetic evidence published in July 2012 in the journal Nature by David Reich of the Harvard Medical School " vindicates " Greenberg's hypothesis of three waves of migration into the Americas.

According to the CIIR report, Amnesty International and Americas Watch stated that there is no evidence that the use of torture was sanctioned by the Nicaraguan authorities, although prisoners reported the use of conditions of detention and interrogation techniques that could be described as psychological torture.

According to Shanghai Jiao Tong University, the university is ranked in the 151 – 200 category among world universities and 76 – 98 among universities in the Americas.

According to the Book of Mormon, Zedekiah's son Mulek escaped death and travelled across one of the oceans ( Atlantic or Pacific ) to the Americas, where he founded a nation that later merged with another Israelite splinter group, the Nephites.

According to the Book of Mormon, a religious text of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a Nephite () is a member of one of the four main groups of settlers of the ancient Americas.

According to the Book of Mormon, the family of Lehi ( a wealthy Hebrew prophet ), the family of Ishmael, and Zoram traveled from the Middle East circa 600 BC to the Americas by boat.

According to the Book of Mormon, " deseret " meant " honeybee " in the language of the Jaredites, a group believed by Mormons to have been led to the Americas during the time of the construction of the Tower of Babel ( see ).

According to debriefing statements made to the FBI by a Cuban Intelligence officer who defected in 1983, the Veceremos Brigade was controlled by Cuban Intelligence officer Alfredo Garcia Almeida, chief of the North American Section of the Americas Department and former political counselor at the Cuban Mission to the United Nations in NYC.

According to feminist historian Sarah McDougall, the origin of Christian European insistence on monogamy, and insistence on its enforcement, arose as a consequence of 16th century Islamic incursions into Central Europe and the advent of European colonialism within the Americas, Africa and Asia, which exposed European Christians to cultures that practised polygamy.

According to the field of genetic genealogy, people first resided in Siberia by 45, 000 BCE and spread out east and west to populate the Americas and Europe.

According to Pan American Sports Organization rules all 28 current Olympic sports, plus other optional sports ( such as bowling ) that is popular throughout the Americas can be played at a single games.

According to data from the National Population Council, Querétaro is the 11th largest metro area in Mexico, as well as the 128th largest in the Americas.

According to a report in NACLA's Report on the Americas ( May / June 1997 ),

According to the Book of Mormon, the people fled across the Ocean via unique barges and established an ancient civilization in the Americas.

According to Ilya Zakharov of Moscow's Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, genetic evidence suggests that the modern Tuvan people are the closest genetic relatives to the Indigenous peoples of the Americas.

According to the Book of Mormon, Alma (; c. 173 BC – c. 91 BC ) was a Nephite prophet who established the Church of Jesus Christ in the Americas during the reign of the wicked King Noah.

According to the Book of Mormon narrative, Jacob was born in the wilderness during his father Lehi's journey from Jerusalem to the promised land ( the Americas ) sometime between 600 B. C.

According to the Book of Mormon, when Jerusalem was destroyed by Babylon during the reign of Zedekiah, all of the sons of Zedekiah were killed except Mulek .< Ref > Helaman 8: 21 Along with " as many as would hearken unto the voice of the Lord ," Mulek escaped into the wilderness and traveled " across the great waters " to the Americas, founding a new nation.

According to Latter Day Saint belief, the Book of Mormon was originally translated by Smith from a record engraved on Golden Plates by the ancient inhabitants of the Americas.

According to Latter Day Saint beliefs, many ancient inhabitants of the Americas engraved records on metal plates.

According to tradition, they moved there from an area east of the Mississippi just before Columbus ' arrival in the Americas.

According to McNeill's Law, the microbiological aspect of conquest and invasion has been the deciding principle or one of the deciding principles in both the expansion of certain empires ( as during the emigration to the Americas ) and the containment in others ( as during the crusades ).

According to The 2007 Pew Global Attitudes Project, " Throughout Western Europe and much of the Americas, there is widespread tolerance towards homosexuality.