NGOs

1. An abbreviation for privately run, n on g overnment o rganizations that strive for world betterment. They have frequent contact with various governments and often attempt to influence policy. Amnesty International and Greenpeace are examples of NGOs.

Example Sentences

Her organisation recently carried out a mission to the Bulgaria-Turkey border, where NGOs have documented cases of animals trapped for days or weeks, bringing back footage of bloodied livestock and cows giving birth beside trucks.

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However, experts and NGOs said some also go willingly.

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“She stands in the way of our very urgent mission,” Matt Walsh of the Daily Wire said, “which is to dismantle left-wing terror cells, left-wing NGOs.”

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And 97% of them have sustained some level of damage from the war, according to the Global Education Cluster, a partnership of UN agencies and NGOs.

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They break walnut shells for a living in the Sheidaee settlement just outside the city of Herat in western Afghanistan and receive no help from the Taliban government or from NGOs.

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