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Foreign funding of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) is a controversial issue in some countries. In the late Cold War and afterward, foreign aid tended to be increasingly directed through NGOs, leading to an explosion of NGOs in the Global South reliant on international funding. Some critics of foreign funding of NGOs contend that foreign ...
A sign for the World Food Programme outside a United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) food aid warehouse in Deir Al-balah, Gaza, on Jan. 23, 2025. Credit - Ahmad Salem—Bloomberg/Getty ...
The order to pause foreign aid is part of a broader Trump administration effort to pull back on America’s engagement abroad ― by, for example, withdrawing from the World Health Organization.
The entire scope of Trump’s freeze on foreign aid and “stop work” orders to nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), issued in an executive order on Jan. 20, is hard to fully comprehend, and it ...
(Reuters) -The United States is pausing more than $95 million in assistance to the Georgian government over a law on "foreign agents" that Washington considers anti-democratic, Secretary of State ...
The paper also reports that Pakistan received the most aid out of all the countries in Southern Asia, with India just behind receiving $589 million in 2015. The biggest part of the aid to Pakistan was given for basic education. Out of the total $649 million, $371 million or 57.16 per cent was given for basic education. [1]
World Food Program gave the largest UN aid to Afghanistan which amounted to $280,000,000 in fiscal year 2024. [4] Other UN agencies gave lesser amounts. According to a March 2024 publication by ProPublica based on a SIGAR report, the U.N. handed over $2.9 billion in cash to Afghanistan since the Taliban arrived at the helm in August 2021. [5]
The Biden administration on Wednesday suspended $95 million in U.S. assistance to Georgia after its parliament adopted legislation related to foreign agents that critics say was inspired by a ...