they can't move the legislative agenda forward so civil society ngos tended to become dependent on us but in places where there is not space you are just wasting your money. >> you need a policy for every country separately in the situations are going to very. what may be true in 2017 may not have been true five years ago or five years from now and we should be pushing in a case like ukraine to open political space. when there is no alternative to working with civil society and ngos i would still choose among them the ones that look like they are going to be able to move into politics if and when the sun political space opens but i want to make another point and that is one of the points in the book. there are people struggling for human rights and for democracy and we don't i think do enough to support them as individuals. it is something that the public institutes and the national endowment for the democracy and freedom house, that now in the last few years it's become to do but i think it is important including in these situations if you have people putting their lives on the line

this foota of se 2 was shot by an ngo. refugees here received support from the united nations and international ngos. but they were not allowed to leave the camp. was very crowded and like a prison because we were not allowed to leave. if you tried to leave, you would be arrested by the thai authorities. and if you resisted, you could be killed. >> many refugees suffered from depression and other mental illnesses. he says what saved him was learning to paint. a thai ngo ran art classes for the children. the art classes became a form of therapy. these are some of the pictures drawn by children at the camp. ♪ >> translator: the teacher told us we could draw anything we liked. but the only thing in myind was bombs and gun fights so that's what i drew. >> he kept sketching and painting. then something started to change. >> translator: i had these images stuck in my head but as i drew them i gradually began to feel better. >> a peace accord was finally signed in october 1991. that led to the gradual closing of the thai refugee

both political parties and if you as an ngo have an aim to. public opinion and you get funding externally but you put it on your web page i don't think it's too much it's much it's much. softer than the current regulation here in the united states we will leave it there. foreign minister of hungary thanks so much for talking to al-jazeera thank you so much already imitation. i just want to make sure all of our audience is on the same page whether online what pollutes the u.s. citizens here and what puts people of iraq going one in the same or if you join a sunset i was never put a file been looked at differently because i'm dr good all the people but i'm a lot this is a dialogue tweet us with hash tag a.j. stream and one of your pitches might make a connection join the global conversation at this time on al-jazeera. i'm citizen and on the with the top stories on al-jazeera spain's prime minister has called catalonia an authorised secession referendum an attack on.

ousmane gning works for an environmental ngo. he advises the women and helped them get funds from the un-backed green climate fund. he also helps farmers here. >> the vegetable growers also want to benefit from the fund. what can it do for them? they need to acquire new skills. you have helped us so far, but you mustn't leave us alone now. there is more to do. the money for this project did not come from senegal, but from an international fund. >> the soil the women are working on is still salty, but they want to find out whether they can already resume farming here. they have planted a small patch of rice as an experiment. they will know in about two months if the soil is recovering and will yield a crop. a tanker truck suddenly appears. the driver h evidently just dumped a load of human waste. yama ndiaye is really angry. >> it is destructive. it disrupts the ecological balance. it is toxic. >> the truck does not have a number plate, and the driver wants to hide his face. the forester, mamadou sagna, is also a lieutenant in the

so we will contract with, among others, ngo's for those types of services. >> and are ngo's -- obviously we have our believes and we want -- we have certain standards but when ngo's go into another country, are they required to respect the culture of that country? >> that would certainly be expected, congressman, yes. >> so ngo's -- we get complaints. yrv gotten complaints as i've travelled around from people that they're actually out trying to change the country and of course we want a certain amount of change but at some point it become as disrespect for the culture of those countries. good luck in trying to find that line and good luck in your new position. thank you very much. >> thank you, sir. >> we go now to ranking member of the subcommittee on asia and the pacific. >> i want to thank you for your comments about wanting to get information to congress and answer our questions. rex tillerson, secretary was here june 14th and of course we only get five minutes and a lot of us have a lot more questions than that. that's why we have questions for the record. but the questions for the

most of the ngo's have not had access since this crisis began at the end of august. we, at least nsf and a number of other agencies have remained there, including with international presence but they're not allowed to do the proper work. that work has been given by the government of myanmar to the red cross movement as you know. but the request of the secretary general is that the u.n. org organization have their access restored. it's a less critical area. we have access for example thool idp examples, which host quite a large population of rohingya refugees. but the crucial area is northern rakhine and this is where the access has to be restored. it's a very important question because clearly the conditions are not in place yet for the return. neither in terms of material conditions with all the destruksz that we think or we have seen through satellite or we have seen images of, we need to make an assessment as soon as possible. so that's one important thing that needs to be addressed. but even more importantly i should say when i introduced the question of citizens

there the un organizations and most of the ngos have not had access since this crisis began at the end of august. a number of other agencies have remained there, including with international presence, but they are not allowed to do the proper work. that work has been given by the government of myanmar to the red cross movement, as you know. but the request of the secretary general is that the un organization can have it restored. the less critical area, there we do have access to the idp camps which host also quite a large population of rohingya refugees. but the crucial area is northern. on your second e kquestion, it a very important question because the situation is not ready for the return. again, we need to make an assessment as soon as possible of that situation. so that's one important element that needs to be addressed, recob constructir reconstruction. but when i introduced the question of citizenship, verification of citizenship and reattribution of citizenship. because this is a statelessness question, therefore it is squarely in the organization, we have repeatedly, in fact

sometimes by ngos in the country in question. sometimes by individuals were involved in a fight he will say he is fantastic, , make sure you get to know her. it's an art, not a science i would say. .. . [inaudible conversations] [laughter] >> thank you all for coming on this lovely saturday. a day after friday the 13th, i hope it was spooky and nice or

is that if an ngo receives foreign funding above a certain amount has to publish it on its website idon't thing that really the really takes away any kind of freedom of action or freedom of speech from the n.g.o.s they just have to put it on their web page that they are funded from a foreign resource because you know it's a matter of principle again that people. from the side of the people i think it's a very a legit amount. legitimate will or expectation to have those organizations fully transparent from the perspective of financing who have the aim to influence public opinion both political parties and n.g.o.s as well if you as an ngo have an aim to to influence public opinion and you get funding externally but you put it on your web page i don't think it's too much it's much it's much. softer than the current regulation here in the united states. we will leave it there yeah foreign minister of hungary thanks so much for talking to al-jazeera thank you thank you. determined to live life to the full. to go to some i have very limited sight five percent but i can distinguish objects

none of the things i say in the book and we always had to remember a government is not an ngo. if you work for amnesty and human rights. you are for human rights and democracy. but no government can do that. and that's one of the pap problems and human rights policy. reagan did it successfully as you think about the number of countries that were democratized in that year. here are a few things to say about it. first, i have this wonderful quotation from justice holmes in his book the common-law even a dog, can distinguish between being kicked and being stumbled over. so can a king so can a dictator in other words, were not saying to people you're no damn good get out. that's a very persuasive argument. what we are saying to people ideally is we are concerned about long-term stability here. if it is a king or sultanate. what he want most of all. you want your son to follow you and then you want his son to follow him. that requires stability. long-term stability. and we are worried about that. is a nice opener for a conversation of course sometimes it doesn't work. there are ways

i understand the benefit to that ngos, but the inefficiency is stunning. what are the negative impacts on the ground in terms of instability local markets and instability of shipping us commodities to remote parts of the world to be resold their? >> at 75 cents on the dollar. >> i went to take this opportunity to correct that number. is a 25-cent loss, dollar. i want to enter that into the record, 25 cents loss on the dollar. thank you for that question. monetization has been around for a long time and there are rules the monitor how we do monetization. it ensures when we go into a country that we do look at the global market or universal market in the country to ensure that the tonnage we bring in has a very small impact on the market and we take that seriously with our colleagues at the department of agriculture. we have done that for quite some time, so to answer your question , very minimal detrimental impact on the market of the giving country is what we strive to do because that's what we have been doing. for you for usaid in my office with food for

gaddafi heads up a local ngo he says adanis mega power plant operation has devastated local crops by failing to properly seal lissie water intake canel and storage pond. you can see how green and lush this area is. because of increasing salinity levels in the ground water our farming is being invaded. the farmers have really gone down. what's happening. on the exit over all. these are photos of fly ash from a danis power plant you can see the have dumped all the fly ash on the roadside and . fly ash is a dangerous toxic dust created when burning coal they're not supposed to just dump it anyway as it could have an impact on people's health. in order for more than ten years get busy ngo has gathered evidence of violations for legal cases against the company. to show us what he claims to be the impact of adanis developments on the coastal environment we're heading out along the river with some local fisherman according to environmental clearance conditions sand dunes and mangoes must be preserved and creeks mustn't be blocked or reclaimed but it's not long before god he's pointing out b

agencies and ngos from reaching affected areas. we're also pressing for unfettered media access so we can all learn in greater detail what is happening. president trump has discussed the situation with leaders from southeast asia. secretary of state tillerson called on soon chi. u.s. ambassador haley called the security council for an international role. this crises has implications far beyond ra keen state. burma's democracy is at a turning point and a heavy handing response invites challenges for other neighbors. we are thus engaging to address humanitarian needs and actions to stop the violence. i was in burma myself two weeks ago. our ambassador and i met with top government and military officials. authorities committed to protect civilians pursue accountability and cooperate with the international community. the situation on the ground nonetheless remains grim. we must pursue all efforts to see full implementation of these commitments. i also visited ra keen state and met with members of the displaced rohingya community. they

i'm unaware of our partners, maybe certain ngos or the u.s.have direct evidence of this. >> thank you. >> thank you. senator marquee. thank you, mr. chairman. thank you, director nims. right now, we have been horrific crisis with the ethnic cleansing in burma and half a million refugees passing across the border to bangladesh. an enormous number of people will continue. i think 20,000 in the last week or two another 20,000. so use an example of poly crisis is developing, how you respond currently and how you can respond more effectively. >> thank you for that question. what we have seen to put it in context, we have seen numbers now are six, almost 700,000 from burma, dmr, and has lead to bangladesh. to put this in perspective, when we went to bitty bitty camp, over a five to six months. we stopped upwards of 250,000 people across the border from south sudan into uganda. what we are seeing in bangladesh is in a three to four week. close to six to 700,000 people crossing over into an area, a very small area. just to put that in context, we are

she works as a program manager for health link worldwide, a uk -based ngo. she received her bachelors of arts from colgate university in hamilton, new york and master of science in international development from american university right here in washington dc. two very experienced and dedicated public servants and leaders. it will yield to the investor. >> i submit my form for the record. >> without objection, your full statements and any attachments will be made a part of the record. >> i want to thank you very much mr. chairman for the work you have done on this issue and madam congresswoman, thank you for your concerns on the budget and i hope we can address those concerns. i also want to highlight a couple points for start my short form and as secretary tillerson during his comments before the foreign relations committee juny tight budget and that is a lot of difficult challenging decisions have to be made and analyzed the administrative objective to make american security our top priority. mr. chairman, madam congresswoman, i would like to say that we a

sometimes by ngo's in the country in question.ometimes by individuals involved in the fight who will say, she is fantastic, make sure to get to know her. it's an art. >> here is a look at some authors recently featured on book tv's after words, our weekly author interview program discussing newt gingrich. former radio host sikes on america. and art levine on the mental health industry. in the coming weeks, after words, looking at the role of the media today. and a record setting year aboard the international space station. federal judge john newman reflects on his career first as a prosecutor and now as a federal appellate judge. this weekend on after words, former fox news anchor gretchen carlson talks about the challenges of women who have been sexually harassed in the work place. >> over 90% of sexual harassment cases end up in settlement. what does that mean? that means the women pretty much never works in her chosen career ever again, she can never talk about it, she's gagged. and what do we do, we put in clauses in contracts

the ngo that hunger hits from germany together with the u.n. world food program provides food for more than two hundred thousand people here every month under the most difficult circumstances. there are frequent attacks which require u.n. soldiers to protect the camp. but hannah doesn't live in the camp for the mother of four the most dangerous part of her journey is. just about to begin. with you. know none but none made you more new an uncle don don juan transporting the food to the village is very difficult but i have no choice my family has starving who are women well but if i take everything at once armed men will take it all away from me so i have to make several trips with my god. if i have only a little bit on me then they can only take part of the food and run under when i knew what the. government troops and rebels have been fighting here for years but what started as a political conflict between the president and his vice president quickly took on ethnic dimensions pitting the two largest ethnic groups the dinka and the new or agains

or other international ngo's that we have been able to track. we have heard the saudi arabian government say they are providing assistance, but we have not been -- it is not through the traditional ways we have been able to see. >> and do we have any evidence on the ground that there is assistance being provided by saudi arabia? >> usaid does not have evidence at this time. i am unaware if our partners, maybe certain ngo's or the u.n. have direct evidence of this. >> thank you. >> thank you. senator? >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you, director nims. ght now we have a horrific crisis with the ethnic cleansing in burma and half a million refugees passing across the border to bangladesh. an enormous number of people. the flow continues i think 20,000 the last week or two. another 20,000. so use this as an example of how a crisis is developing, how you respond currently, and how you can respond more effectively. >> thank you for that question. what we've seen to put it in context, we've seen actually numbers now are 6 to almost 700,000 from myan

we can't get ngos up there, right. >> mr. chairman, there actually has been some small signs of progress in recent days. the miramar authorities are working with the red cross agencies and they have gained access to the northern state. there is some humanitarian assistance being delivered. it's not adequate, we are encouraging this to be scaled up with the kind of partners, world food program in the un family of agencies that have the experience to meet all the needs. i saw it firsthand. while i was in the capital, there was a red cross shipment of supplies, locals heard about it and came out and began attacking the red cross shipment. local authorities, security authorities put down the attack, but this is the environment. there are local populations who feel, perceive, all of the assistances going to the rohingya and their own needs are not being met. that is inaccurate, that's the result of a lot of misinformation and a complicated long-standing history of discrimination for all ethnic populations in the state. therefore,

but the ngos, is just crisis management. it is not fixing anything. and could not in a scale of suffering that is far too large for that. one of the things that impressed me that she actually did practical things. to solve her own communities problems. and that for me was part of what drew me to her immediately. that she was doing things. and i was going to my own existential crisis.i was feeling as if, what does writing actually do? and his writing and journalism able to do anything more than comfort those like all of you, who know something is wrong by making you feel less alone? i wondered if i was really, other than documentation, which i think is very very important for history and showing the world but, would it give back to people what they had lost? of course not! and i remember, i was really struggling when i started this book it feeling like what is the point really when i can't turn back time? i can't i confess this to another writer and i said you know i feel like writing does not have the power to change the world. not when the conversati

but ngos working in conservation say what really stops effective policing is a lack of money.ound can't even buy fuel for their vehicles. these are in national parks, often, where it's happening. the authorities seem powerless. yes. u nfortu nately, most of the sapphires, gems, even gold rushes that we've had have been in protected areas, sometimes national parks. and it's all illegal, of course, but then, there is very little capacity to enforce legislation generally in madagascar — especially in very, also remote areas, because you have, i mean, they are usually remote areas so it's even more difficult to enforce the law in this case. do you think the government wants to enforce the law? i wouldn't dismiss also that there is maybe a lack of willingness to act. which means gems from illegal mines continue to flow to the capital and on into backstreet workshops. here, skilled hands and sharp eyes work to unlock the value of the gems. stones will go through several pairs of hands before they reach the capital antananarivo and a place like this, where they're cut and polished fo

andrej gajic's research and environmental ngo, s sharklab adria, also includes technicians and studentst studying sharks. >> i started with sharklab about a year and half ago. i've been on three expeditions so far and have really learned a lot. >> they're planning to take another dive this evening. >> it is highly importantoto kn thahat weive dudung the night, because wcacan nd moree ra. >> aft severalours thefind a mber othese marbled eltric rays.t's populaon s also dlined dramically. >lomete a alonghe adrdriatic.fnv itit's aopular holiday deststinion fofobosnia a herzogovina. all of the town sewage flows, directly into the sea - some of it as unfiltered waste. >> the waste water that we need to deal with, and there is also need for better law regulations, which will help us to maintain our waste. >> one cause for the decline of species is overfishing. the biologists see sustainable fish farms as a possible solution. this one is owned by ivan kremek. his family fished here for generations until open-water catches declined. >> our forefathers fished, but it was different then. they fish

ngo law which governs foreign ngos and we're seeing this with a bevy of restrictions on online communication right now. i think you could in general transfer that trend line across domestic policy. i think with regard to -- there's even less incentive to change or reverse course. at this point both of those areas are quasi-militarized. loads of people out there -- people's armed police out there. they managed to tamp down on self-immolations and attacks or at least news of self-immolations and attacks and i think they can wait it out until either people assimilate, people leave, go elsewhere in china, or there's just so few of them comparatively it just doesn't really matter anymore. so i don't real -- it's a question of incentives. don't see a lot of incentive for change there if they think they've got the situation, however unpleasant, more or less under control. so, because i've been given permission to go a little beyond my brief, i think what we should be thinking about now is this notion of domestic policy trajectory is more or less correct. we should start to be thinking about the acc

and we are really, really happy that the ngos and their churches and leaderships of the community arehe tasks of distributing. they come to a central location and take what they need and distribute it to everybody. so we have now the capability of providing people with enough food -- not enough water but enough food for two weeks and enough water for at least one week. so we are in the process of with operation blessing that comes from virginia, an ngo putting water purification plants in different areas of san juan, and next week we're going to start delivering just a small purification device for people to use in their homes. we're starting to see that we can get our two schools, three schools, municipal schools already working in the next week or so, about one third of our head starts and early head starts will begin working in about a week and our community college has already started working. all of our seven health clinics are working in terms of the emergency units that we have and we expect our hospital to be up and running, fully operational next week. so because of private d

she worked for a karzai ngo at the time.he opened a factory with cosmetics to make money and build their economy on their own terms. how does a random solo american white lady last in kandahar when many aren't allowed to leave their homes there. first of all, first rule, don't dress like an afghan woman, dress like an afghan guy, also, be sarah chase. the better part of a decade, living and working in afghanistan, working as a journalist, working ngos, ultimately becoming a high level adviser to the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. what sarah chase ended up becoming, through all of that, unexpectedly, what she ended up becoming is one of the world's leading experts on corruption. her central argument which she learned in afghanistan and all over the world, whats that you can't, you know, get security now and then thereafter take care of the govern fans issues and the corruption problems, corruption turns out to be a really bad, bad virus. easy to get and it's hard to kill. but if you are a country, once you got it, onc

he works with the ngo pastoral da terra that seeks to protect the poor and nature.ut it's very hard in this lawless region, like something out of the wild west. elizeu is always armed, and for a good reason. >> there were four murder attempts against me, each with a fierce shootout. t>> they killed my son.. >> how old was he? >> 21. >> the stabbed him from behind. they rammed the knife into his body. >> these people have been robbed of everything they have. >> we need help. as the original inhabitants of this region, we want respect. nothing more than that. we live off the forest and for the forest. and we're ready to die for it. >> 8000 square kilometers of brazilian rainforest were destroyed last year. that's nine times the size of berlin. the bare patches in the amazon rainforest are continuing to grow. >> earlier this month, some 40,000 people hit the streets of sydney, australia, demanding the right to same-sex marriage. now a postal referendum could up the pressure on parliament to change the law in their favor. meanwhile, in many other democratic nations, gay

lastly, i would ask consent that numerous statements from and ngos about the situation be made part of the record. >> without objection and thank you for your strong opening statement you weren't i were together and vice president biden's home and he was very adamant that the country is dismissive of this whole group of people. >> especially on the trafficking issue which i remember you brought up. no reality at all. >> first witness is mr. patrick murphy deputy assistant secretary for the bureau east asian and the department of state. cut thank you for your service. second witness is mr. mark estrella deputy assistant secretary for the bureau of population refugee, migration at the department of state. thank you for your service. third witness in this kate's theory-- kate theory. that was the prettiest smile. i did that correctly. acting deputy assistant administrator for the bureau of democracy, conflict and humanitarian assistance at the agency for international development. thank you for your service. if each of you could summarize in about five minutes. .. from a decades long stru

>> ican is a coles of ngos from all over the world.bout 460 organizations that have gathered together to focus on one goal. prohibiting and eliminating nuclear weapons. we're kind of modeled after another nobel peace prize laureate, the international campaign top ban landmines that had great success in the '90s trying to figure out how ngos that have different interests and different grounds and resources can work together on one issue and make a huge push. so we have really worked this kind of decade on trying to figure out what do we need to do to get rid of nuclear weapons because a lot of the efforts we've done in the past have not worked. >> clearly. >> you yes. so what we really did is try to reframe the issue. we see it as a security issue. we see it as a very technical elite thinking things. it's all about balance and how many do you have, how many do we have. we start talking about what do nuclear weapons do when we use them? what would happen in warfare if these threats to use nuclear weapons were actually carried out? >> we

with the european center for a modern ukraine, they called it a nongovernmental organization like an ngo on that filing. in fact, it's a political party and it's linked to this pro-russian ruling group of that was there at the time between 2012 and 2014, the same group, of course, that paul manafort worked for. what we gan as a fact finding mission to try to learn more what manafort did has been raising eyebrows among mueller prosecutors who want to see what podesta violated that act. >> does this go as far as to suggest that the podesta group and podesta might be involved in manafort or is this the idea that you've got to be honest with the government when you're working for a foreign government or an entity and these guys misrepresented what was on the form? >> well, they're involved in manafort, they're involved with manafort. so far as the fact that they worked with him as part of this group in between 2012 and 2014, at the direction of manafort's deputy tony podesta and his group introduced top ukrainian officials to members of congress. they're involved in that point. it's importan