October 16th, 2007 | Category: Human Rights, Government Funding, Oxfam, EU

On October 11, Oxfam GB’s Jerusalem office distributed a copy of a press release detailing a resolution passed by the European Parliament, which “calls for the lift [sic] of the blockade in Gaza and free movement for people and goods on all [sic] the Occupied Palestinian Territories.” (The document NGO Monitor obtained appears to be […]

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May 31st, 2007 | Category: Government Funding

“What Is a Gongo? How government-sponsored groups masquerade as civil society.”, Moisés Naím, Foreign Policy, May/June 2007
“Gongos are government-sponsored nongovernmental organizations. Behind this contradictory and almost laughable tongue twister lies an important and growing global trend that deserves more scrutiny: governments funding and controlling nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), often stealthily. Some Gongos are benign, others […]

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