Non governmental organizations, or NGOs, as they are called in international parlance, bring to the developing world a wide variety of valuable and necessary services especially when it comes to health care. I’ve talked before about NGO development in China, the democratic public sphere that local and foreign NGOs support, and the thin line they walk with government authorities in promoting social change. I quoted from Nick Young, a journalist who founded the China Development Brief (CDB) a newsletter reporting on NGO issues, and an advocate for their growth and development. In a subsequent post, I ran, in full, his statement on how authorities had shut down the Chinese edition of the the CDB. Now we read in the Christian Science Monitor, that Nick is barred from even entering the country.
See my complete post over at the World Health Care Blog
December 28, 2007 at 7:46 pm
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