It was, apparently, no one's job to regularly monitor Freedom Industries' tanks along the Elk, even though state officials knew that hazardous chemicals were sitting near the West Virginia American Water intake.
What are the implications: From 2008-2012, the NGO has recorded nearly 600 attacks on journalists, but if the NGO is dissolved there will be no other NGOs in the country to monitor freedom of expression.
He has just been elected chairman of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, a post that rotates more or less amicably between the nine members of a panel that is mandated by Congress to monitor freedom of conscience across the world.
If you are a young, registered Basij, you can say so on your application to university and they automatically let you in to help monitor freedom-of-speech movements, women's movements, and so on.
A prominent conservative evangelical Protestant, the Rev. Richard D. Land, was appointed by President Bush to a two-year term on a federal panel that monitors religious freedom abroad.
According to the Keston Institute, a group based in Oxford, England, that monitors religious freedom in the former Communist world, many churches have been repeatedly rejected on technicalities.
"It is far-fetched to suggest that they have actively contributed to the AIDS death toll," said Zoe Titus, who monitors press freedom issues all over the continent for the Media Institute of Southern Africa.
"He lives like a prisoner he can't go out to restaurants, he can't have a normal social life," said Carlos Lauria, senior program coordinator for the Americas at the CPJ, which monitors press freedom conditions around the world.
It's part of a pattern that seems to be consuming Eastern and Central Europe: In 2017, the democracy-monitoring NGO Freedom House gave Hungary the lowest ranking of the nations it monitors in Central Europe, and lowered its overall democracy scores for 18 of the 29 countries in Eastern Europe and central Asia.
Between January and June of 2014, Maristain wrote, the group Article 19, which monitors press-freedom issues, has counted sixty-six physicattackscks and twenty-eight threats against journalists in Mexico.
