On one side of the spectrum, NGO Monitor asserts that Al Mezan " promot claims of ' Israeli war crimes '; inflammatory pictures and accusatory statements and reports ", and that it is " particularly active in pursuing a virulently anti-Israel political agenda, while entirely ignoring Palestinian terrorism.

Renovation work on the stadium started in 2007, and has met with opposition from several groups, notably the " Hoja de Tilo " NGO, who claims that the works would damage the environmental balance of the park behind the stadium.

The NGO Monitor, an Israeli based organisation, claims Christian Aid is biased towards Palestinian interests

The National Gamekeeper's Organisation ( NGO ) claims that nine times as much of the British countryside is looked after by gamekeepers as is in nature reserves and National Parks.

In April 2012 Karimova announced that she had initiated the establishment of a new NGO, the “ Forum of Socially Responsible Citizens of Uzbekistan ”, which claims to support Uzbek citizens ’ social initiatives.

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

Ten Thousand Villages, an NGO within the Mennonite Central Committee ( MCC ) and SERRV International were the first, in 1946 and 1949 respectively, to develop fair trade supply chains in developing countries.

Among those represented were Ralph Nader's Public Citizen organization ( Medea Benjamin and Linda Chavez-Thompson ), the Brazilian NGO Ibase ( Cândido Grzybowski and Moema Miranda ), the Brazilian association of entrepreneurs for citizenship CIVES ( Oded Grajew, founder of the WSF ), the Brazilian Commission on Justice and Peace ( Francisco Whitaker ), ATTAC ( Christophe Aguiton ), CRID France ( Gustave Massiah ), Focus on the Global South Thailand ( Nicola Bullard ), and the Alliance for a Responsible, Plural and United World ( Gustavo Marín ).

In 1999, Leprosy Control stated that they were the only NGO providing anti-leprosy aid in the Hazarajat, and had been doing so since 1984.

Instead, protestors, environmental NGO ’ s and local First Nations were portrayed together as being deeply committed to the effort of preserving Clayoquot Sound, becoming a symbol for international environmental efforts and awareness.

In early 2000, urban gardens were started under the direction of the NGO, Thailand Environment Institute ( TEI ), to help achieve the Bangkok Metropolitan Administrations ( BMA ) priority to ' green ' Thailand.

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

The project is currently supported by an NGO called RITS with the help of the Coletivo Digital (" digital collective "), who were part of the original development team in São Paulo and volunteer developers.

His works were criticized by a writer for the Institute for Global Jewish Affairs, part of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs ( an Israeli NGO ), for allegedly containing antisemitism.

According to NGO Americas Watch in 1986 100 people a month were dying in the conflict at that time.

All proceeds from the auction were donated to a reputed NGO called Nanhi Kali which helps educate the girl child in rural and urban India.

Consciously modeled on the Serbian nongovernmental organization ( NGO ) Otpor !, which had been instrumental in defeating Slobodan Milošević's regime in 2000, the Kmara members were trained and advised by the influential Georgian NGO Liberty Institute and funded by the United States-based Open Society Institute ( OSI ).

Both " Save Vama Veche " campaign and Stufstock Festival were initiated by the " Association for the Conservation of Bio-Cultural Protected Areas " NGO.

Violence erupted in the capital during the strike, and according to the human rights NGO HURON 14 people were killed in police firing.

In February 2008, the UK NGO Reprieve published a report based on flight logs obtained by Ana Gomes, confirming that over 728 prisoners were flown to Guantánamo through Portuguese airspace, and hence through Portuguese jurisdiction, in at least 28 flights.

In El Salvador, an NGO study in 1998 indicated that at least 44 % of the estimated 1, 300 prostitutes in three major red light districts of San Salvador were between the ages of 13 and 18.

The true extent of the abuses is unknown because the AFDL and RPF carefully managed NGO and press access to areas where atrocities were thought to have occurred however Amnesty International claimed as many as 200, 000 Rwandese Hutu refugees were massacred by them and the Rwandan Defence Forces and aligned forces.

An NGO estimated that 2, 500 citizens of Myanmar based in Phang Nga Province, Thailand during the event may have been killed, and that 7, 000 Burmese were still unaccounted for.

In August 2006, one month before the referendum against reintegration in Moldova, 4 members of pro-Moldovan NGO " Dignitas " from Slobozia were brought in for questioning by Transnistrian law enforcement as part of an investigation into a bus explosion which had taken place three days earlier and which killed two people.

In addition to an estimated 1. 163 homicide victims, 120 forced disappearances, 43 attack survivors, and more than 250 victims of threats were represented by the NGO

Violence erupted in the capital during the strike, and according to the human rights NGO HURON 14 people were killed in police firing.

The NGO run industry based training for keepers and were the first organisation to react to EU legislation with regards to game meat hygiene producing a course for experienced keepers & stalkers which had approval from the Food Standard Agency.

This was at a time when such issues were not in vogue and the Singapore Environment Council, labeled as “ government NGO ” or GONGO, had yet to be formed.

However it has often been argued that in the dominated countries ( most of the world ) the WSF is little more than an ' NGO fair ' driven by Northern NGOs and donors most of which are hostile to popular movements of the poor.

* The text of the agreement compiled by the NGO Committee on Education

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These non-exchange payments are often referred to either as ' transfer payments ' or ' remittances ' and may include money sent from one country to another by an individual, business, government or NGO ( non-governmental organisations – often charities ).

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.

In 1987, a report was published by the UK based NGO Catholic Institute for International Relations ( CIIR, now known as " Progressio "), a human rights organization which identifies itself with Liberation theology.

" The CIIR report refers to estimates made by the NGO Americas Watch which count the number of non-battle related deaths and disappearances for which the government was responsible up to the year 1986 as " close to 300 ".

In Croatia, Innovation Institute is a NGO with a mission to develop innovative potential by promoting creativity, innovativeness, unorthodox thinking and questioning existing dogmas.

It seeks to do this by building favorable interactions between the public, private and civil society and working with different networks both in local ( EITI NGO Coalition, National Budget Group, Public Coalition Against Poverty and etc.

The ratio of income to spending was 76. 1 % in 2010, decreased from 2006 by 15. 8 % when the NGO was spending 91. 9 % of its income.

A non-governmental organization ( NGO ) is a legally constituted organization created by natural or legal persons that operates independently from any form of government.

In the cases in which NGOs are funded totally or partially by governments, the NGO maintains its non-governmental status by excluding government representatives from membership in the organization.

NGO type by orientation

NGO type by level of co-operation

( The ISO is actually not purely an NGO, since its membership is by nation, and each nation is represented by what the ISO Council determines to be the ' most broadly representative ' standardization body of a nation.

The definition of " international NGO " ( INGO ) is first given in resolution 288 ( X ) of ECOSOC on February 27, 1950: it is defined as " any international organization that is not founded by an international treaty ".

This is one of the most important assets possessed by an NGO, it is gained through a perception that they are an “ independent voice ”.

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The Yangon Heritage Trust, an NGO started by Thant Myint-U, aims to create heritage areas in Downtown, and attract investors to renovate buildings for commercial use.

The NGO Fund in Cyprus is co-financed by the European Economic Area ( EEA ) Financial Mechanism and the Norwegian Financial Mechanism.

The Rio de Janeiro Gay Pride Parade and its associated events are organized by the NGO Arco-Íris ( Portuguese for rainbow ) and it is 16 years old ( in comparison to the 14 years old of São Paulo's Pride Parade ).