Tag: ngo
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Guest lecturer on IR 389
Exciting news! This week Ayse Yircali, the executive director of TESEV, will visit Human Rights in World Affairs. TESEV is one of the most prominent NGO’s in Turkey and has published several important studies on topics ranging from democratization and ethnic politics in Turkey to Turkey’s changing foreign policy and visibility in the Middle East.…
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Burma tries to expel Doctors w/o Borders for bias toward an ethnic group
This week in class we will look at the leading organizations that report on human rights abuses in the world. Authoritarian states routinely accuse human rights organizations (HROs) with bias and misreporting. Just a few days ago Burmese government announced that it was going to expel MSF (Doctors Without Borders) for partial treatment against one ethnic group…