Foreign funding of NGOs
Illiberal governments are blocking activists from receiving foreign cash. Liberal ones should not join in
THE International Committee of the Red Cross, Médecins Sans Frontières, Human Rights Watch, Transparency International: to most people these and thousands of other non-governmental organisations (NGOs) sound like outfits whose work should be welcomed and encouraged. But that is not how it looks to plenty of governments. In the last few years, around 20 countries have planned or passed laws restricting the freedom of NGOs to raise funds abroad. Some echo the language of Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, and now require foreign-funded NGOs to register as "foreign agents"—a phrase that since the cold war has carried the connotation of espionage and treachery.
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