41. NGOS ASSAIL US EFFORT TO DERAIL TOBACCO TREATY Infact joined other usbased ngos including the Last week us Attorney General JohnAshcroft announced Department lawyers for the federal government’s lawsuit http://www.infact.org/5201ngo.html

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 2, 2001 CONTACTS: Lucinda Wykle-Rosenberg/Infact in Geneva 41-79-221-7818 Patti Lynn/Infact 01-617-695-2525 David Lerner/Riptide Communications 01-212-260-5000 NGOS ASSAIL US EFFORT TO DERAIL TOBACCO TREATY GENEVA The corporate accountability organization Infact joined other US-based NGOs including the American Lung Association today in condemning the US role in this week’s second round of negotiations toward a Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). This landmark treaty could set global limits on the tobacco industry’s advertising and promotion, and curtail its political influence by prohibiting lobbying on public health measures. Last week US Attorney General John Ashcroft announced he would not pursue the funding requested by Justice Department lawyers for the federal government’s lawsuit against the tobacco industry. This week US negotiators have moved to weaken the FCTC-a move that could imperil the treaty, according to activists observing the talks. “The US delegation is taking a position that’s out of step with American public opinion, and arguing to water down the treaty so much that it would be meaningless,” said Infact Associate Director Lucinda Wykle-Rosenberg. Infact and other members of the Network for Accountability of Tobacco Transnationals, which includes 65 consumer, human rights, environmental, faith-based, public health and corporate accountability NGOs from 40 countries, are pushing for the treaty to limit the political influence of tobacco corporations, their subsidiaries and agents. “The Bush administration is playing right into the hands of Philip Morris and the other tobacco giants. The US role shows exactly why the FCTC must limit the influence of Big Tobacco over public health policy,” Wykle-Rosenberg continued.

42. Final Text Of Global Tobacco Treaty Important Victory For Global Public Health A Executive Board s debate on a new WHO policy for relations with ngos. has come underattack by food corporations, industry associations and the us government. http://www.infact.org/012204food.html

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 22, 2004 CONTACTS: Kathy Mulvey/Infact Mobile Phone in Geneva: 41.79.221.7848 David Lerner/Riptide Communications in New York: 01.212.260.5000 NGOs Decry Industry-Driven Policymaking Food Industry Attempts to Derail WHO Initiative on Healthy Diets Rebuffed Geneva - Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) today hailed the adoption of a World Health Organization (WHO) Executive Board resolution recommending that the 57th World Health Assembly in May 2004 endorse a Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and Health. However, public interest NGOs also raised concerns about ongoing attempts by the food industry to undermine the Global Strategy, and about broader questions of conflicts of interest within the world's foremost health body. Such concerns are also emerging in the Executive Board's debate on a new WHO policy for relations with NGOs. Industrialized and developing countries are grappling with a growing burden of noncommunicable diseases, including an epidemic of obesity. The WHO's proposed Global Strategy creates a framework for member states to inform consumers about the dangers of foods high in sugar, salt and fat; curtail promotion of unhealthy food; and institute price policies to encourage healthy eating. The strategy has come under attack by food corporations, industry associations and the US government. US officials have even denied any connection between unhealthy foods and obesity, as the US faces the highest rates of obesity in the world.

43. 2-Plants: U.S. NGOs Seek Halt To Bio-pharming Field Trials news@xs4all.nl ; Subject 2Plants us ngos seek halt to government regulators haven tlooked at what the impacts Species Act to prevent the us Department of http://www.gene.ch/genet/2003/Aug/msg00012.html

GENET archive [Index] [Thread] 2-Plants: U.S. NGOs seek halt to bio-pharming field trials To Subject 2-Plants: U.S. NGOs seek halt to bio-pharming field trials From Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2003 11:37:26 +0200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: list@xs4all.nl Sender: owner-genet-news@xs4all.nl - genet-news mailing list - GENET-news - TITLE: Groups Seek Halt to Bio-Pharming Field Trials SOURCE: Inter Press Service, by Stephen Leahy http://www.ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=19254 DATE: Jul 15, 2003 - archive: http://www.genet-info.org/ http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/inthenews/GEPPVRespUSDAPressRel.pdf * Friends of the Earth - Biopharming http://www.foe.org/camps/comm/safefood/biopharm/index.html * Franken Foods - IPS special coverage http://www.ipsnews.net/focus/gen_modif/index.asp GENET European NGO Network on Genetic Engineering Hartmut MEYER (Mr) Kleine Wiese 6 D - 38116 Braunschweig Germany phone: +49-531-5168746 fax: +49-531-5168747 mobile: +49-162-1054755 email: coordination(at)genet-info.org web: http://www.genet-info.org

44. 4-Animals: U.S. NGOs On GE Animal Report genetnews@xs4all.nl; Subject 4-Animals us ngos on GE underlines the critical needfor the us Food and Union has consistently urged the government to require http://www.gene.ch/genet/2002/Aug/msg00050.html

GENET archive [Index] [Thread] 4-Animals: U.S. NGOs on GE animal report To genet-news@xs4all.nl Subject 4-Animals: U.S. NGOs on GE animal report From hartmut_meyer@gmx.de Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 12:53:31 +0200 (MEST) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Reply-To: list@xs4all.nl Sender: owner-genet-news@xs4all.nl - genet-news mailing list - PART I - GENET-news - TITLE: Consumers Union Says National Academy of Sciences Report Underlines the Need for Labeling and Safety Tests of Genetically Engineered Animals SOURCE: Consumers Union, USA, Press Lesease DATE: Aug 20, 2002 - archive: http://www.gene.ch/genet.html http://www.gene.ch/genet.html http://www.gmx.net Prev by Date: 4-Animals: U.S. National Academy of Sciences on risks of GE animals Next by Date: 2-Plants: Kenya plans to plant GE crops for food production Index(es): Main Thread Genetech pages

45. AUSFTA: Open Letter To Canberra From US Environment NGOs : Melbourne Indymedia We represent some of the usA’s largest environmental ngos with a EnvironmentalReview In March of this year, the us government commenced an environmental http://www.melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2004/01/60181.php

home newswire features publish ... add an event features anti-war migration ecology students ... editorial policy resources activist groups IMC Phone System old site archive syndication ... indymedia.org announcements list themes search medium text image audio video other translate deutsch italiano norsk portug powered by sf-active printable version AUSFTA: Open letter to Canberra from US environment NGOs Saturday January 10, 2004 at 12:21 PM We represent some of the USA’s largest environmental NGOs with a combined membership base of several million Americans. We support the goal of building a global economy that protects the environment, while raising the living standards of all people through out the world. Regrettably, as set out below, the Australia-U.S Free Trade Agreement (AUSFTA) may undermine environmental protection initiatives within Australian and U.S jurisdictions. [ better late than never: ] Defenders of Wildlife, Friends of the Earth (U.S), National Environment Trust, November 26, 2003 Australian Federal Parliament C/o The Hon. Mark Vaile

46. Rabble Columns gave a speech blasting us ngos for failing to play a role many of them didn’trealize they had been assigned doing public relations for the us government. http://www.rabble.ca/columnists_full.shtml?x=22893

47. Advocate No government has done anything to outlaw, sensor or restrict ngos in Barbados. Solong as the poor are always with us, ngos will never be in jeopardy, we will http://www.barbadosadvocate.com/NewViewNewsleft.cfm?Record=17360

48. Crusader War College: Palestinian NGOs And US Government Aid October 01, 2003. Palestinian ngos and us government Aid. Memo fromthe Dean Little Green footballs has a post about Palestinian ngos http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org/archives/000075.html

Crusader War College I am a Jacksonian Christian. Main October 01, 2003 Palestinian NGOs and US Government Aid Memo from the Dean Little Green footballs has a post about Palestinian NGOs and "charities" refusing to sign an agreement not to transfer funds to terrorists or terrorist organizations. In one sense, the refusal to sign such an agreement should not be construed as an admission of guilt: It's sort of like pleading the 5th Amendment in a court case, where using it is not a tacit admission of guilt. It merely requires that the prosecutor WORK to prove his case. At the same time, the Palestinian NGOs are not on trial. Rather, they are requesting aid money from the US Government, and as a condition of receiving it, the US Government is asking that they sign an agreement not to give the money to terrorists. The money IS NOT THEIRS. Let me repeat that. THE MONEY IS NOT THEIRS. It is money from the US Government, and behind that, it's the American people's money. As an American citizen, I demand that my aid money (charity) not fund terrorists, and (somewhat) approve of my Government's reasonable demand. There MAY BE other reasons, some good, as to why they think they cannot sign, and many Palestinian apologists can come up with a lot of plausibly sounding excuses. However, if these NGO's are not willing to sign, and signing is a condition for aid, then FAIRNESS dictates that those who do not sign should not get aid, out of respect for those who DID sign, and ARE COMPLYING with the requirement not to fund terrorism.

49. Crusader War College: Comment On Palestinian NGOs And US Government Aid Crusader War College. Comments Palestinian ngos and us government Aid.Dean Ptah,. I always enjoy your writing, both here and elsewhere http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org/cgi-bin/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=75

50. Government & NGOs If you are looking for us government material, be sure to check out theexcellent Web site operated by the government Printing Office (GPO). http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/cm/africana/governme.htm

Library Catalog Government and International Organizations If you are looking for U.S. government material, be sure to check out the excellent Web site operated by the Government Printing Office (GPO) . Many documents are available immediately in electronic format via a fast, efficient search engine, called GPO Access In addition to medical resources, the Centers for Disease Control site has travel recommendations for African countries The United Nations Development Programme web home page Transcripts of VOA broadcasts (in various Internet audio formats including a Real Audio server) are available for the last seven days. The ANC includes press releases, policy documents, and other information The International Institute for Environment and Development has a number of full-text resources available via its publications list. USAID has information available by WWW, with a breakdown of material for given regions, including many African countries The Commonwealth of Learning is a site created by the Commonwealth governments to support distance education, and includes an African Region section Canada's IDRC , among other things, lists a number of development aid projects in Africa on its gopher server and on the WWW The U.S.

51. CNN.com - Colombian Rebels, Government, NGOs To Hold Peace Conference Monday - O Many ngos expect the antidrug offensive, which is two Colombian army battalionsand us helicopters are Representing the government will be the ministers of http://www.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/americas/10/15/colombia.peace.ap/

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52. United Nations NGOs Trade Personnel With Us Federal Agencies. Nations ngos trade personnel with us federal agencies fit in with the federal government sregulatory agencies federal payroll, even while working for the ngos. http://www.comeandtakeit.com/un-fedem.html

United Nations NGOs trade personnel with US federal agencies to bypass treaties, or the lack of them, to foist their leftwing agenda on Americans. Many federal employees traded to NGO are taxpayer paid. Heads Up: A Weekly edition of News from around our country September 5, 1997 #51 by: Doug Fiedor fiedor19@eos.net THE REGULATORY MORASS The next major federal government scandal is just starting to get legs in the press, thanks to the Dallas Morning News. That is, under a law known as the Intergovernmental Personnel Act, the federal government "lends out" 1,200 to 1,500 well paid federal bureaucrats to left-wing non-profit organizations each year. If anyone wonders how the United Nations Non- Governmental Organizations (NGO) fit in with the federal government's regulatory agencies, here is part of the story: They regularly trade employees back and forth. A while back, we reported that the relationship between United Nations NGO's and federal agencies, like the EPA, was so tight it appeared there was a revolving door between them. Now we learn that many of these people are kept on the federal payroll, even while working for the NGOs. Many federal agencies give grants to nonprofit groups. Often, federal regulatory agencies even offer grants to nonprofit organizations that use the money to sue the agency. It's all a big game, with a well orchestrated game plan. Their plan is to grab power, and the game plan is working well.

53. POLITICS-U.S.: Iraq-Attack Think Tank Turns Wrath On NGOs charged that ngos that received usAID funding for projects in Afghanistan and elsewherewere not giving sufficient credit to the us government as the source of http://ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=18733

54. NGOs Attack US Administration For Trying To Block EU Chemicals Bill ngos attack us administration for trying to block EU chemicals bill. The groupshave written to the us government, accusing it of “intervening in the http://www.edie.net/news/Archive/7525.cfm

Edie weekly summaries Keeping you up to speed with news and events from around the world. Front Page UK Europe International ... News Releases NGOs attack US administration for trying to block EU chemicals bill Over 70 health and environmental organisations have joined forces to try and prevent the Bush administration undermining the EU’s chemical policy reforms. The groups have written to the US government, accusing it of “intervening in the regulatory process of sovereign nations at the behest of the industry”. They have published internal documents by four government agencies, claiming that the “US government essentially operated as a branch office of the chemical industry”, and have urged the government to cease all efforts to undermine EU chemicals policy reforms. The EU reform of its chemical policy is aimed at improving the testing of chemical substances before putting them on the market. At present, over 30,000 chemicals reach the market without adequate testing. Key elements of the proposed changes to the legislation include: introduction of the REACH system (see related story ) to register, evaluate and authorise new chemicals; the obligation for the chemical industry to provide safety data and risk assessments of new chemicals; and provisions to reduce animal testing.

55. A Joint Effort By Japanese And US NGOs And The Japanese Government TOPICS. A Joint Effort by Japanese and us ngos and the Japanese GovernmentProviding used Bicycles to Teachers in Ghana. Desert terrain http://www.mofa.go.jp/policy/oda/summary/1998/t7.html

56. World Hunger Notes -- USAID Administrator: NGOs Must  Promote Ties To U.S. Or W usAID Administrator ngos Must Promote Ties to us government or WeWill Find New Partners . Monday Developments. (Washington, June http://www.worldhunger.org/articles/03/us/natsiosinteraction.htm

DEPARTMENTS YOU CAN!... MORE ABOUT HUNGER NOTES THANKS TO OUR INSTITUTIONAL ASSOCIATES Academy for Educational Development American Baptist Church, World Relief Office ... Agricultural Development USAID Administrator: NGOs Must Promote Ties to U.S. Government or We Will 'Find New Partners' Monday Developments InterAction CEO Mary McClymont said one of the central pillars of a multi-year campaign, The Global Partnership for Effective Assistance, is to examine the effectiveness and accountability of overseas relief programs so they will receive greater support from the U.S. government. "Andrew has raised some serious issues about the work of our members," she said. "We will not overreact to this, but we will join the battle armed with facts and determined to straighten out the record where it needs to be straightened out." Hunger Notes Home Page

57. WWF DETOX associations, parents associations and environmental ngos issued a calling on theBritish government to support for European governments to protect us and our http://www.panda.org/campaign/detox/the_solution/ngo.cfm

What's the Problem? What's the Solution? What is REACH Benefits of REACH ... News and Publications Take action now Spread the word Send your friends and family an e-card and get them involved. Reduce Your Risk Follow our simple actions to reduce your exposure to harmful chemicals. Non-government organizations...and you WWF and other environmental NGOs want to 'beef up' EU chemical law. Trade unions Industry Scientists NGOs and you We want a policy that will deliver enough safety information to identify the worst chemicals, and to ensure that the most dangerous are phased out. Recent European NGO activity in support of stronger chemical law include: EU Internet petition into internet consultation (July 2003) A British alliance of health, consumers associations, parents associations and environmental NGOs issued a joint statement calling on the British government to support the REACH proposals which represent 'an unprecedented opportunity for European Governments to protect us and our children from further contamination.' In September 2003, in a Financial Times letter

58. Equity Watch - Global Environmental Government Unit - Centre For Science And Env Hypocrisy number 1 Rather than critiquing this retrograde, undemocratic and inequitousposition taken by their government and industry, us ngos in particular http://www.cseindia.org/html/cmp/climate/ew/art20001025_3.htm

October 25, 2000 NGOs in glass houses Should Northern groups be pushing international financial institutions to stop funding fossil fuel projects in the South? their (viz. industrialised countries') commitments to reduce the threat of global climate change by continuing to finance new projects that increase greenhouse gas emissions in developing countries To Southern groups familiar with the delicate and often duplicitous politics of international climate change negotiations and the resulting Kyoto Protocol, this position is an anomaly. Industrialised countries do have commitments under the Kyoto Protocol to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), but these are industrialised country commitments presumably to be met by them domestically . The protocol certainly does have any provision for the G8 to force developing countries to take on GHG reduction activities by making this conditional for energy loans. If G8 countries do as WRI and other Northern NGOs want them to, and refuse to fund fossil fuel projects in developing countries, they will not be doing so with any powers vested to them by the Kyoto Protocol, as the WRI seems to suggest. In fact, they will only be using financial muscle against weaker countries. Any section of the global civil society interested in global democracy should find the use of financial clout within an environmental treaty reprehensible for more than one reason. To begin with, of course, developing countries

59. Poverty Relief ngos offer us$3.6b in povertyrelief ( 2001-06-11 ) Non-government organizations(ngos) have poured at least 30 billion yuan (us$3.6 billion) in a seven-year http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/chinagate/role of NGOs.html

home feedback about us CHINAGATE POVERTY RELIEF role of NGOs Key Issues Social security Education Unemployment Women in poverty ... China has too few NGOs helping vulnerable groups Most non-government organizations ( NGOs) in China are academic ones, while the proportion of NGOs in the field of charity work and the number of NGOs specializing in aiding vulnerable people is too small, according to a survey done by the NGO Research Center of Qinghua University. China's public welfare to be expanded, says minister China will cultivate more non- governmental organizations (NGOs), offer preferential support for enterprises entering China's social welfare system and learn from the world in a bid to expand public welfare, a government minister said Sunday. Agents help rural workers to adapt Urban employment agencies are helping people in China's less-developed countryside adapt to the fast-developing market economy. Fund helps Tibetans regain eyesight About 14,000 cataract sufferers in Southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region have regained their eyesight in the past 17 years, thanks to a medical programme sponsored by a non-government charity organization. China Red Cross collects over US$24m in 2002 The China Red Cross Society (CRCS) has collected more than 200 million yuan (US$24 million) for flood relief this year, among which domestic donations for the first time have exceeded overseas donations.

60. Grassroots Who We Are based ngos that expressed strong opposition to the war, have said that they wouldattempt to respond to the crisis, but would not apply for us government funds http://www.grassrootsonline.org/dilemma.html

Grassroots International Sow Justice Reap Security Iraq: The Challenge of Humanitarian Response May 2003 The new world order on display in Iraq places new demands on the U.S. humanitarian community. The Wolfowitz-Perle doctrine of pre-emptive action against perceived external threats preserves a role for humanitarian intervention. In fact, it may make humanitarian response a growth industry. The role of relief organizations in Iraq raises many questions, however, and these questions deserve the continuing attention of the movement that sought to avoid this war in the first place. Humanitarian relief often describes itself as a politically neutral enterprise designed to save lives and limit human suffering in emergency situations. What could be political about high-tech bubbles full of clean water? The enterprise unites governments, the private sector, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and the UN system in a professional and technically advanced network. U.S.-based corporations and not-for-profit organizations with a heavy reliance on U.S. government funding are major actors in this network. The neutrality principle has always been difficult to sustain. Political forces in a society always influence choices about how and to whom aid is provided. The provision of aid, in turn, has an impact on the balance of political power, at least at the local level. This is not a new debate. Grassroots International came into existence pointing out the close relationship between war and famine (and, hence, aid) in the Horn of Africa in 1984. Others have made the same argument quite effectively in Afghanistan in 2003.

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