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Downsizing in Microcredit NGOs: A Necessary Shift toward Sustainability
The success of Bangladesh’s microfinance industry in financial inclusion and rural development is well known in the world. Microfinance institutions (MFIs) and NGOs have been crucial actors in poverty alleviation, women’s empowerment, creation of self-employment, and grassroots economic activities since…
The importance of recognizing the difference between true protests of groups in society and those orchestrated and manipulated by foreign agencies
In every country in the world there are protests and manifestations of people who do not agree with certain decisions their governments make. In Europe we saw them in France, UK, the Netherlands, Germany and others. In France there were…
Proposed Bill Threatens Peace and Human Rights NGOs in Israel
We publish a Press Release from Combatants for Peace that is reaching out with deep concern over a dangerous new legislative development that threatens this organization as well as other peace and human rights organizations in Israel. The Israeli government’s…
Rescue ship Humanity 1 detained based on lies by the Italian authorities
On Saturday evening, December 2, 2023, the rescue ship Humanity 1 was detained in Crotone, southern Italy, after disembarking 200 people rescued from distress at sea. The Italian authorities’ justifications for this blockade are based on a series of lies,…
12 NGOs file a criminal complaint to demand an investigation for the destruction of the rescue ship Iuventa
The civil fleet joins the Iuventa-crew in filing a criminal complaint to hold accountable those responsible for the destruction of the Iuventa rescue ship under Italian custody. The 4 Iuventa-crew members, on trial in Trapani for allegedly “facilitating unauthorised immigration”,…
Anna Polo: “Let’s reflect on disparities to talk about migration in a more humane way.”
From Cutro to Riace, from Mexico to Greece, from makeshift camps to detention centers: the current history of migration is riddled with contradictions, inefficiencies and hypocrisy. According to Anna Polo, activist and journalist, the first step is to recover a…
Refugee Day. The one thing you can never get back: time
When we tell stories about displacement, asylum processes and claiming refuge we often focus on the process itself, the violence of borders, the conditions in camps, the numbers of people who find themselves stuck waiting for a decision. The reason…
Changing vulnerabilities on Samos: Why young men are not always the least vulnerable refugees
Men between the ages of 18 and 39 are often assumed to be the most likely to survive troubling conditions in refugee reception centres. Drawing on recent research on the Greek island of Samos, Gemma Bird highlights that this is now always…
Maso Notarianni: “Everyone is welcome on board Mediterranea Saving Humans”
Migration policy, civil disobedience and tangible gestures of solidarity. We talk to Maso Notarianni, a journalist, director of Italian association ARCI and member of Mediterranea Saving Humans. How did the launch of the Mediterranea Saving Humans project come about? The…
Could NGOs flourish in a future without foreign aid?
By MICHAEL EDWARDS 24 June 2018 for openDemocracy Only when myths are revealed as myths can there be a clear-eyed conversation about the best ways forward The last few months have been a season of myth-busting around NGOs like Oxfam…
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