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UN review should call on India to stop targeting NGOs: HRWThe UN Human Rights Council will conduct its third review of India's human rights record under the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) procedur...
Home Ministry "inadvertently" renews, cancels licence of another NGOThe licence of Florence Home Foundation, a member of France's Emmaus International, was cancelled for alleged misutilisation of foreign gra...
Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch condemn government's refusal to renew FCRA licensesThe ability to access foreign funding is integral to the rights to free association and expression which can only be restricted under narro...
US-based NGO, Compassion International, put on government watch listTen of these NGOs were put on the list by the NDA government and the rest have been under watch since the time of the previous UPA regime.
Three American NGOs, including one patronised by George Soros, put on government watch listThis means donors can no longer send money directly to these outfits in India. Prior clearance from the home ministry will be required.
Relief for Ford Foundation unlikely anytime soon"We have no plans to review the decision on Ford Foundation as of now," a senior Home Ministry official said.
Foreign funding: Modi government cancels licences of over 10,000 NGOsThe home ministry recently took a series of actions against various NGOs, including Greenpeace India, two NGOs run by social activist Teest...
US conveyed to India concern over crackdown on NGOsHome Ministry officials made it clear that all NGOs and donors have to work within the framework of Indian laws and no 'genuine' NGOs will ...
In a fresh crackdown, government cancels licences of 2,406 NGOsIn the wake of the cancellation of their registrations, the NGOs would not be able to receive foreign funds.
NGOs ask PM Narendra Modi to end clampdown, initiate talksIn a crackdown on NGOs allegedly receiving illegal foreign funds, the govt had cancelled licences of nearly 9,000 such entities for violati...
US envoy to India says worried by activist, charity clampdownModi's govt has frozen the accounts of Greenpeace; limited the travel of some activists; and has put the US-based Ford Foundation on a secu...
Ford Foundation funding to non-FCRA NGOs, Teesta Setalvad's Sabrang TrustRijiju said Teesta Setalvad is associated with two NGOs namely Citizen for Justice and Peace and Sabrang Trust which are registered under F...
Home Ministry lists 7 violations for action against NGOsMinister of State for Home, Kiren Rijiju said that the FCRA wing of the Home Ministry had carried out 129 inspections on NGOs in 2014 and 3...
Ford Foundation put under MHA watch list in "national interest and security" of IndiaMHA has ordered that all the funds coming from Ford Foundation, US, for any agency or NGOs will first need to be cleared by the ministry.
US-based NGOs put on watch list were flouting FCRA Act, MHA saysThe Union home ministry defended its decision to put four US-based NGOs on the watch list and subject all foreign contributions received by...
Lens on foreign funds to NGOs featuring on IB reportThe government has already put Greenpeace International and Climate Works Foundation under scanner and made it mandatory for them to take p...
- Government intensifies drive against NGOs, to scrutinize workings of 77 more organizations
The government intensified its drive against NGOs, with the home ministry zeroing in on 77 organizations whose activities will be scrutiniz...