Jean Folger has 15+ years of experience as a financial writer covering real estate, investing, active trading, the economy, and retirement planning. She is the co-founder of PowerZone Trading, a ...

The Department of Public Information/Non-Governmental Organizations Association Committee today associated 21 non‑governmental organizations with the United Nations ...

A non-governmental organization (NGO) is a non-profit, citizen-based group that functions independently of government. NGOs are organized on local, national, and international levels to serve economic ...

The Biden administration has returned human rights to the forefront of U.S. foreign policy. Secretary of State Antony Blinken recently announced that the United States would be rejoining the United ...

NPR's Eric Westervelt in Kabul reports on the slow pace of efforts to reconstruct Afghanistan. In the wake of the fall of the Taliban, the international community pledged billions of dollars to help ...

And one of our society’s biggest falsehoods-in-a-name: “Non-governmental organizations.” Until recently, these groups have been widely seen as international, idealized versions of domestic nonprofits.

Q: I have long worked for a global organization that is now impacted by President Donald Trump’s executive orders. Most employees here in the U.S. are being let go. I am being deprived of benefits to ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Jan Egeland, secretary general of the Norwegian Refugee Council, about the Taliban's decision to ban women from working at NGOs. On a visit to Afghanistan last summer, we ...