Earlier in the day, aid organizations briefed Mr. Powell and Mr. Annan in Khartoum on the bureaucratic obstacles they said the Sudanese government often put in their way and on the worsening health situation among the displaced.
He said that while his organization often briefs recording companies on legal issues related to what he calls "self help" measures, "the companies deal with this stuff on their own".
Staff from animal welfare organizations brief attendees on priority bills, train them how to be citizen lobbyists and then take them to meet their legislators.
The faction loyal to General Nkunda discussed the possibility of handing Mr. Ntaganda over to the International Criminal Court, contacting at least one international organization about how this might be achieved, according to a person at the organization who was briefed on the matter.
Besides our initial full-day roundtable, representatives from the BLR also met with the White House liaison to the LGBTQ community, Gautam Raghavan, and with representatives from LGBTQ funder organizations, to brief them on concerns of the bi community and to forge stronger relationships for future work.
The head of the division on tax-exempt organizations, Lois Lerner, was briefed on the effort in June 2011, seemingly contradicting her assertion on Friday that she learned of the effort from news reports.
How these disastrously performing securities were devised is now the subject of scrutiny by investigators in Congress, at the Securities and Exchange Commission and at the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Wall Street's self-regulatory organization, according to people briefed on the investigations.
At least one refugee resettlement organization has already been briefed on the expected decline of refugee admissions to 50,000.
SHANGHAI — China's biggest state-controlled news organizations plan to spend billions of dollars to expand overseas as part of a government effort to improve the nation's image abroad and to create respected international news organizations, according to people briefed on the proposal.
