"They want to show people that they understand that the migrants are the problem," Aleksandr M. Verkhovsky, the director of SOVA, an organization tracking xenophobic groups, said in a telephone interview.
But at least $1.8 billion of that money quickly vanished into bad loans, according to the Anti-Corruption Actindependent an independent organization tracking fraud in Ukraine that is financed in part by United States government grants.
Open Doors, a nondenominational organization tracking Christian persecution, estimates that Iran has 370,000 "new Christians from a Muslim background". In the last decade, televised proselytizing, often by ministers from the Iranian Diaspora, has fueled the rise of Evangelical Christianity.
Consumers would likely protest if they knew about them, says Dru Oja Jay, a spokesperson for the ETC Group, an international watchdog organization tracking the impact of new technologies on human rights and ecological diversity.
There have been 27 such deaths so far in 2015, down from the 35 deaths seen at this point last year, according to the Officer Down Memorial Page, a nonprofit organization tracking line-of-duty deaths.
According to the Rutherford Institute, the student's legal civil liberties defense organization, tracking students is about raking in sweet, sweet government cash, since school funding is closely tied to attendance.
