{"id":41593,"date":"2019-02-05T10:52:37","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T05:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=41593"},"modified":"2019-02-05T10:52:37","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T05:22:37","slug":"centres-crackdown-hits-greenpeace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/centres-crackdown-hits-greenpeace\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre\u2019s crackdown hits Greenpeace"},"content":{"rendered":"

Centre\u2019s crackdown hits Greenpeace<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

News<\/b><\/p>\n

Environmental group Greenpeace has been forced to shut two of its regional offices in India due to a block on its bank account after accusations of illegal donations.<\/span><\/p>\n

Important Facts<\/b><\/p>\n

The Issue:<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

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  1. Greenpeace has been barred from receiving foreign donations since 2015 as part of a nationwide crackdown on charities.<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. The Indian government has cancelled the registrations of nearly 15,000 non-governmental groups under the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act.<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Critics argue that the government has been using the foreign funding law as a tool to silence non-profit groups which have raised concerns about the social costs of India’s rapid economic development.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    About Greenpeace<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

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    1. Greenpeace is a global environmental group, a non-profit NGO with a presence in 55 countries<\/span><\/li>\n
    2. Greenpeace India has been critical of government policies over their environmental impact, including coal mining and nuclear power. It has also campaigned over worsening air pollution across the India.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Centre\u2019s crackdown hits Greenpeace News Environmental group Greenpeace has been forced to shut two of its regional offices in India due to a block on its bank account after accusations of illegal donations. Important Facts The Issue: Greenpeace has been barred from receiving foreign donations since 2015 as part of a nationwide crackdown on charities.… Continue reading Centre\u2019s crackdown hits Greenpeace<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1699933757},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}