InterAction, an alliance of 190 US-based NGOs, has called on the spy agency to stop using humanitarian work as a cover for counter-terrorism.
The Security Council's action came after leading countries made new pledges of financial and diplomatic support, laying the foundation for new relations with a nation presumably more amenable to interaction and alliance with the West than it was under Colonel Qaddafi.
Katie Lee is a policy manager at InterAction, an alliance of more than 180 U.S.-based NGOs, and formerly served on the Republican staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Finally, In their letter to General David Petraeus, the present Director of the CIA, the InterAction's alliance of nearly 200 U.S.-based international non-government organizations, many with humanitarian operations in Pakistan, formally expressed deep concerns regarding the vaccination campaign carried out to collect intelligence information.
InterAction, a major alliance of United States-based humanitarian groups, complained yesterday that the Bush administration was too slow in issuing licenses to let them do preparatory work in countries neighboring Iraq in case of war.
Mary E. McClymont, the chief executive officer of InterAction, the largest alliance of American-based relief groups like CARE and Save the Children, said the administration, in its new budget proposal, had cut $400 million from traditional aid and development accounts -- including money for child survival and family planning -- to defray its new costs.
This blog is part of a series organized by The Huffington Post and the NGO alliance InterAction around the London 2012 Olympics.
This post is part of a series produced by The Huffington Post and the NGO alliance InterAction around World Humanitarian Day, August 19.
He currently sits on the board of directors of InterAction, the largest alliance of U.S.-based international nongovernmental organizations.
This post is part of a series produced by The Huffington Post and the NGO alliance InterAction around the G8 summit being held in Northern Ireland, June 17-18.
