The NIPCC, which holds regular shindigs for sceptical scientists in New York and Washington, claims to be an international panel of nongovernment scientists and scholars who have come together to understand the causes and consequences of climate change.
Independent (nongovernment) schools, which enroll about one-fourth of the school population, are mostly operated by religious denominations, the majority being Roman Catholic; since 1967 independent schools have received state aid.
With only 15 nongovernment (university) sites included in ARPANET, the U.S. National Science Foundation decided to fund the construction and initial maintenance cost of a supplementary network, the Computer Science Network CSNETT).
Fearful that Western values will undermine its rule, the Party is considering a new law that would constrain nongovernment organizations — including even ones as apolitical as study-abroad programs.
And yet, almost half a century after the introduction of Article 190 and almost a quarter century after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Vladimir Putin's regime is reviving the law in spirit, rapidly moving Russia toward isolationism and intolerance of any form of free expression — from civic activism to nongovernment media.
This fall, U.S. officials came to Gaziantep to brief Americans working for nongovernment agencies.
Alternative venues may still be found in Moscow, but, as Putin's government clamps down on freedom of expression, the public realm — in art and culture, civic organizations, and nongovernment media — is shrinking by the day.
But, since 2012, the nongovernment media, as well as civil-society organizations, have come under more sustained pressure.
Directors of the Nonconformist art museum pride themselves on their nongovernment, noncommercial status, and wear both descriptions like a badge of honor.
Mr. Truax's began this "Volkrocket" project in the mid-1970s and pursued it until 2004, when he lost a $10 million competition to be the first nongovernment entity to send civilians to space.
The foundation has collected 2,500 signatures of support, won backing from local lawmakers who "invited" the government to keep the museum on the site, and found a nongovernment partner, the Media21 Global Journalism Network Geneva, willing to develop the site in tandem.
