"Amnesty International called the Charities and Societies Proclamation law (CSO law), adopted on January 6, 2009 by the Ethiopian parliament, a repressive law designed to strictly control and monitor civil society in an atmosphere of increasing intolerance of the work of human rights defenders and civil society organisations. Previous drafts of the CSO law imposed strict government controls and harsh criminal penalties on non-governmental organisations. "
This is the long and short of it: "The CSO law will: -criminalise human rights activities undertaken by Ethiopian organisations that receive more than ten percent of their funding from abroad; -criminalise human rights activities by foreign NGOs, including campaigning for gender equality, children's rights, disabled persons' rights and conflict resolution; -impose disproportionate and criminal penalties for even minor administrative breaches of the law; -establish a Charities and Societies Agency with broad discretionary power over civil society organizations, and allow government surveillance of and interference in the operation and management of civil society organisations. "
WHAT ARE THEY THINKING??? Power and control!
For more information, please go to one of these sites:
Amnesty International
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aylmLqrcJpck
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=82223
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