Dr. Willy Fautré, Director of Human Rights Without Frontiers (HRWF), a non-governmental organisation in special status with ...

A youth organisation, YOULEAD International, has pledged to empower 10,000 African youths. The pledge was made during a virtual event themed, ‘Future-Ready Youth: Developing Leadership and ...

3. In 2011, AfriForum applied for special consultative status with the United Nations (UN). The application was registered with the NGO branch of the UN's Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). The ...

In 1998, the ARS further elevated its status by becoming a consultative ... Permanent Missions, and other ECOSOC-accredited NGOs, followed by thought-provoking discussions and Q&A sessions.

Among his notable efforts are calls for the establishment of an Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) to promote inclusive and equitable development, the creation of a Water and Energy Community to ...

In 2022 Amnesty's India chief, Aakar Patel was fined Rs 10 crore (and the NGO itself Rs 51.72 crore) for contravening the foreign exchange law, or the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act.

A BBC Bangla report highlighted how the funding cuts are impacting NGO workers in Bangladesh. The report referenced the NGO Affairs Bureau, which stated that 274 NGOs in the country receive ...

Elon Musk spoke about DOGE's hunt for waste, fraud, and abuse on Sen. Ted Cruz's podcast this week. Musk estimates that there is an 80/20 ratio of waste to fraud in the federal budget and says $1 ...

Nairobi, 17 March 2025 – A growing number of countries are working to decarbonize buildings, but sluggish progress and financing puts global climate goals at risk. These are the key findings of an ...

Speaking at a rally on Hungary's national day, Orban said it was time to eliminate what he called a "shadow army" of NGOs, journalists, judges and politicians paid from the United States and ...

Hungary's Opposition Rallies as Orban Pledges Crackdown on Media, NGOs By Krisztina Than BUDAPEST (Reuters) -Tens of thousands rallied in Budapest against Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Saturday ...