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NGO Linked to Funding LA's Anti-ICE Riots Also Has Interesting Connections With CA Redistricting
Red State
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August 18, 2025
This is the third installment in a series examining the role of taxpayer-funded NGO Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights-Los Angeles (CHIRLA) in politics and anti-government riots in California. In early June, President Trump was forced to send...
NGO trains youths in skill development
Peoples Gazette
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August 18, 2025
A non-governmental organisation, Juvenile Career Education (JuCE) Africa, has expressed commitment to ensuring that a typical Nigerian student has access to 21st century skills with ease. The Founder of JuCE Africa, Adaeze Okeke, made this known...
Israel to send humanitarian aid to South Sudan as it battles deadly cholera outbreak
The Times of Israel
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August 18, 2025
Israel will provide “urgent” humanitarian aid to South Sudan to address a cholera crisis there, the Foreign Ministry announced on Monday, days after a report suggested that Israel may be in talks with the country’s leadership about plans to...
Trump’s border closure escalates migrant mental health crisis in Mexico, says MSF
British Medical Journal
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The Trump administration’s moves to stop people claiming asylum in the US has pushed the Americas’ migration crisis south to Mexico, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has said. The medical non-governmental organisation (NGO) estimates that tens of...
United States: State Department Shuts Down the Human Rights Reporting Gateway
Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN)
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August 18, 2025
(Washington, D.C., August 18, 2025): The State Department has shut down the Human Rights Reporting Gateway (HRG), an online portal that allows members of the public and non-governmental organizations worldwide to submit reports of gross violations...
Massachusetts Health Data Consortium Selects Datycs to Streamline Clinical Data Exchange for Quality Measures
WFMZ - Pennsylvania
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New FHIR Standard-Based Solution to Enhance Clinical Data Sharing Between Health Plans and Providers Across Massachusetts WOBURN, Mass., Aug. 18, 2025 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Datycs announced that the Massachusetts Health Data Consortium (MHDC)...
AIDS prevention in CDO hampered by funding cuts
Minda News
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August 18, 2025
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews / 18 August) — Robbie Pamisa, a volunteer at a local support group for persons with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome), did not think that a political decision made a thousand miles...
Nigeria News47 minutes ago Instead Of Abusing The Judge, Prove You Are Not Terrorist Organisations – Falana Challenges APC, PDP Human rights lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Femi Falana, has challenged the All Progressives Congress (APC)…
Naija News
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August 18, 2025
Recall that a Canadian Federal Court had described both parties as entities that have engaged in conduct amounting to terrorism under Canadian law. The judge, Justice Phuong Ngo, made the declaration while dismissing the asylum appeal of a...
Community, local governments retain lawyers to fight landfill development near Big South Fork
WUOT - Tennessee
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August 18, 2025
Nashville-based environmental land use lawyer Elizabeth Murphy sent a letter to the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC) late last week questioning whether permitting a second landfill in Scott County on a 700-acre tract of...
Rawlins Officials Discuss Non-Profit Agency Funding
KTGA Bigfoot 99 Radio - Wyoming
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August 18, 2025
Monday, AUGUST 18, 2025 | Photo – Rawlins City Hall – Bigfoot99 file photo Rawlins officials debated changes to the way the city funds nonprofit agencies. During the August 5th Rawlins City Council meeting, City Attorney Pinita Maberry-Nave...
State Department’s new human rights reports are silent. We refuse to be
Washington Blade - Washington D.C.
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August 18, 2025
In Dhaka, Bangladesh, a young gay man who had traveled five hours to meet us at the U.S. ambassador’s residence spoke softly about the violence he endured. For years, activists like him would meet with U.S. officials to tell their stories,...
Bitcoin In Sovereign Wealth Funds, Ethereum On Record-Breaking Run – Is The Next Cryptocurrency Explosion Imminent?
Blockzeit
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August 18, 2025
US economic data sets the pace for global financial markets – and thus also for crypto. Consumer prices were recently at 2.7%, slightly below expectations of 2.8%. More decisive, however, was core inflation, which came in at 3.1%, above forecasts....
COUNTY’S HIGH DISASTER PREP SCORES MEAN ADVANCE FEMA FUNDING
Keys Weekly - Florida
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August 18, 2025
Monroe County and two other counties earned the highest scores out of 441 participants for disaster preparedness by the state’s Emergency Management program. The county’s high rating ensures that in the event of a declared disaster and FEMA Public...
Galaxy Health Insurance partners with Round Table India to widen reach in rural and semi-urban India
The Hindu Business Line
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August 18, 2025
G Srinivasan, MD & CEO, Galaxy Health Insurance | Photo Credit: cueapi Galaxy Health Insurance, has announced a partnership with Round Table India (RTI) to deepen health insurance reach in the country. The alliance will focus on building insurance...
County wants residents to sell land for mysterious development near Maysville
The Cincinnati Enquirer - Ohio
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Mason County residents are concerned about a secretive industrial development project involving a hyperscale data center. The project, requiring substantial power and water resources, has spurred rumors and anxieties among landowners facing...
The Role of the India Autism Centre in Making Health Coverage a Reality
Psychologs Magazine
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August 18, 2025
For decades, families of individuals with autism and related disorders have been fighting a silent battle, bearing not only the challenges of the condition itself but also the lack of support from any public health institutions. While many medical...
'No water, food or where to sleep' - IDPs for Borno camps cry for help afta Trump suspend NGO funding
GhanaWeb
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August 18, 2025
Pipo wey insurgency pursue go Internally Displaced Person (IDP) camps for Maiduguri, Borno State capital for northeast Nigeria dey raise fresh alarm sake of dia "challenges". Dem say hunger dey worsen, water no dey, shelter don finish and...
'Can't stop. Won't stop': Documentary filmmakers face federal funding shortfall
WCMU - Michigan
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August 18, 2025
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) has helped make PBS a home for independent documentaries for more than 50 years. In an email to NPR, CPB said it provided over $24 million to documentary filmmaking during the 2024 financial year. The...
Langley Meals on Wheels taking to the street for fundraiser
Langley Advance Times
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August 18, 2025
Aldergrove-based society's first Grand Parade invites residents to lace-up to raise funds Langley Meals on Wheels is calling on residents to walk in support of local seniors at the new Grand Parade, a five-kilometre walk on Saturday, Sept. 20. The...
Gulf Health Council launches HPV awareness-raising campaign to combat cancers linked to virus
The Arabian Stories
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August 18, 2025
RIYADH – The campaign aims to raise awareness about the importance of early vaccination against HPV, especially targeting adolescents and those approaching marriage of both genders. It also seeks to enhance knowledge among parents and the entire...