OneWorld.net note: Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have called on Ethiopia to abandon its proposed Charities and Societies Proclamation, a law the groups say would dramatically increase government control of non-governmental organizations.

Local family benefits from charity’s new direction By Matthew Liebenberg Journal Staff A Nipawin family is benefiting from a grant program that was started last year by the Orange Benevolent Society (OBS), one of Saskatchewan’s oldest charity organiza

Lincoln County Commissioner Joe Hewgley said all the Lincoln County Board of Commissioners were doing is to send the special designated liquor permit request on to the state of Nebraska with a favorable recommendation, following a request from the Lincoln

Forest Watch Ghana (FWG), the umbrella body of civil society organizations operating in the forestry industry has pointed out that state complicity is to blame for massive corruption in the country's timber sector.

The International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society officially launched a physicians training program with the goal of decreasing incidence of chronic Lyme disease. The training program intends to train more than one hundred physicians over the next fi