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WORLD
Jun 20, 2018
Hungary passes "STOP Soros" laws, defying EU and rights groups
Hungary's parliament on Wednesday approved a package of bills that criminalizes some help given to illegal immigrants, defying the European Union and human rights groups and narrowing the scope for action by non-governmental organizations (NGOs).
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 8, 2018
Peace Boat leaves for anti-nuke tour of Asia and Oceania
A ship chartered by Japan-based Peace Boat, a nongovernmental organization that works closely with the Nobel Peace Prize-winning International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), left Yokohama on Monday for an extended tour of Asia and Oceania.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Aug 16, 2017
Libyan coast guard threatens Spanish NGO's migrant rescue ship, chases it off
The Libyan coast guard intercepted a humanitarian rescue ship in the Mediterranean on Tuesday, ordering it to sail to Tripoli or risk being targeted, a Reuters photographer aboard said.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Aug 3, 2017
Italy seizes NGO rescue boat for allegedly aiding illegal immigration from Libya
Italian coast guard authorities seized a migrant rescue boat operated by a German aid group in the Mediterranean suspected of aiding illegal immigration from Libya, a prosecutor said on Wednesday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Aug 3, 2017
Italy begins naval mission in Libyan waters to curb migrant flows
Italy began a limited naval mission on Wednesday to help Libya's coast guard curb migrant flows, which have become a source of political friction before national elections expected early next year.
JAPAN
May 1, 2017
Japan NGOs want government to ease curbs on travel to conflict areas
Japan-based nongovernmental organizations engaged in humanitarian assistance have asked the government to ease restrictions on travel to conflict zones, NGO members said Sunday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Jan 25, 2017
'Whims' of U.S. politics: Deadly Third World backstreet abortions to rise as Trump reinstates NGO gag rule
Thousands of women will die from unsafe abortions and millions will have unwanted pregnancies following U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to ban U.S.-funded groups from discussing abortion, activists said Tuesday.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Dec 17, 2016
Charity in Japan begins at home
Domestic nonprofit organizations face a number of obstacles in their attempts to make a difference in people's lives.
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 28, 2016
China prompts criticism with tough curbs on foreign NGOs
China's parliament passed a controversial law governing foreign nongovernment organizations, the Xinhua News Agency said on Thursday, giving wide powers to the domestic security authority and prompting criticism from Amnesty International.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 16, 2016
Many nations waging a silent war on NGOs
Using NGOs as a whipping boy to limit the operating space of civil society is a concern in as many as 50 countries around the world.
EDITORIALS
Jun 4, 2015
Russia cracks down again on NGOs
Russian President Vladimir Putin's latest crackdown on NGOs is just one more attempt to silence any opposition to his rule.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
May 31, 2015
Foreign volunteers in Tokyo and Tottori bring cheer to Fukushima children's homes
Lifelines introduces two groups working to make life better for kids in children's homes in Tokyo and Fukushima Prefecture.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Mar 8, 2015
NGOs looking out for little lives in the wake of 3/11
Introducing two groups that are helping children in the areas affected by the March 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accident.
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 4, 2015
China says NGOs need regulating for 'national security reasons'
China needs to better regulate foreign non-governmental organizations (NGO) operating in the country for national security reasons, an official said on Wednesday, as the government drafts a law that has unnerved many aid groups.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues
Mar 2, 2015
Putting a foreign face on the 3/11 recovery effort
Four years on, survivors of the Great East Japan Earthquake have a searing yearning to be remembered, says Amya Miller, who arrived in Rikuzentakata from the United States weeks after the March 11, 2011, disaster. She has been there ever since, and today works as a volunteer for City Hall, which still operates out of a temporary facility in the Iwate coastal town.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 26, 2015
Hostage crisis puts work of aid groups on nation's public agenda
Groups with a stake in the Islamic State hostage crisis include aid teams who at times have struggled to keep the Syrian refugee crisis on the agenda back home.
JAPAN
Jul 26, 2014
NGOs pressure Japan to heed U.N. call against anti-Korean hate speech
Several nongovernmental organizations have urged the Japanese government to comply with the U.N. Human Rights Committee's call on Thursday to ban activities that support hate speech directed against Korean residents of the country.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Feb 10, 2014
Tokyo model community melds fashion and compassion
Male model Dean Newcombe runs what surely must be the most photogenic all-volunteer organization around. And although some of the volunteers are indeed fashion models, the 'model' in Intrepid Model Adventures refers to role models as well as the catwalk variety.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Dec 9, 2013
Korean volunteers put the K into kizuna
One volunteer group, based at Tokyo's Meiji University, is called Kizuna International; the other, at Kyoto University, is Kizuna From Kyoto. The coincidences do not end there: Both groups' leaders share the same surname and both are ethnic Koreans.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / FOREIGN AGENDA
Oct 30, 2013
Volunteers staying the course in Tohoku
Upstart NGOs It's Not Just Mud and OGA for Aid continue to punch above their weight in public conversations about the future of Tohoku.

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