Table of Contents
Articles
Creative Uses of Program Related Investments
Milt Cerney
Redes y Redes de Redes
Miguel Angel Itriago Machado and Antonio L. Itriago Machado
The Katz Report - Finally a Reality
Sangoco
Recent Experiences with Re-Registering Foundations in the Czech Republic
Lenka Deverová and Petr Pajas
Canadian Developments
Arthur Drache
Creating an Enabling Environment for Private Philanthropy: the Role of Charity Law in Northern Ireland
Kerry O'Halloran
Establishing New Interactive Forms of Collaboration Between Non-Profit Organizations and Enterprises.- Competitive vs. Collaborative Relationships
Maria Beatriz Parodi Luna
Reflexionando sobre Consolidación de Organizaciones Cúpula de la Sociedad Civil en Venezuela
Charo Méndez
Reviews
Studies of – and prospects for the revision of the tax laws governing non profit organizations
By Fondazione Italiano per il Voluntario
Protecting Human Rights Defenders - Analysis of the newly adopted Declaration on Human Rights Defenders
By the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights
Las Asociaciones Civiles en el Derecho Venezolano (Qué son y cómo funcionan)
By Miguel Angel Itriago and Antonio L. Itriago
Reviewed by Caroline L. Newman
Philanthropy and Law in Asia
Edited by Thomas Silk
Case Notes
India:
CIT v Sri Gujarathi Mandal | CIT v Nagi Reddi Charity
France:
Association Eglise de Scientologie | Albert & others v Association club du chien-guide d'aveugles d'Ile de France
United Kingdom:
Varsani v Jesan | Singh v Bhasin | The Zoological Society of London v Customs & Excise / Dean & Canons of Windsor v Customs & Excise | National Trust v Hoare
United States:
United Cancer Council v Commissioner | In Re Bishop Estate
Country Reports
Asia Pacific:
Regional | Australia | China | New Zealand | Papua New Guinea | the Philippines | Singapore | Vietnam
Central and Eastern Europe:
Albania | Bulgaria | Croatia | Czech Republic | Hungary | Latvia | Lithuania | Macedonia | Romania | Slovakia
Latin America and the Caribbean:
Brazil | Columbia | Falkland Islands/ Malvinas | Peru | Venezuela
Middle East and North Africa:
Regional | Egypt | Kuwait | Morocco
Newly Independent States:
Armenia | Azerbaijan | Belarus | Georgia | Kazakhstan | Kyrgyzstan | Moldova | Russia | Tajikistan | Turkmenistan | Ukraine | Uzbekistan
North America:
Canada | the United States
Sub-Saharan Africa:
Cameroon | Ethiopia | Ghana | South Africa
Western Europe:
Regional | Belgium | France | Germany | Republic of Ireland | Italy | Malta | Sweden | Switzerland | the United Kingdom
Self-Regulation Initiatives
Code of Conduct for NGOs In Ethiopia- A Review Article
Eddie Adiin Yaansah
International Grantmaking
What’s Behind the Foreign Public Charity Equivalence Affidavit?
Betsy Buchalter Adler and Ingrid Mittermaier
International Developments
International Fiscal Association Congress 1999
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Country Reports: Middle East and North Africa
Regional
A meeting will be held in Amman, Jordan to discuss legal developments affecting NGOs in the region. It is expected to take place in late June and to be sponsored by the Friedrich Neumann Stiftung and the World Bank. For further information about this meeting, please contact Shaha Riza at the World Bank, sriza@worldbank.org.
Egypt
The draft law that would revise the current Law No. 32 is being further refined and will be available shortly in English as well as Arabic. The new draft makes three important changes:
- NGOs may simply announce their existence (similar to the French law, which permits an "association déclarée"); if the government wishes to object to the registration of an NGO, it bears the burden of going to court to prevent it;
- NGOs may work in any field, including human rights; and
- The government has a right to dissolve NGOs only for reasons that are stated in the law; seven reasons are stated, including the acceptance of foreign funds without permission of the Ministry of Social Affairs.
NGOs remain concerned about this last issue, and the working group of MOSA officials and NGOs is considering their objections. For further information about the process that has been adopted for consideration of this draft, please see the report in Issue 1, Vol. 1, IJNL (September 1998).
For additional information, please contact Dr. Amani Kandil, Executive Director, Arab Network for NGOs (Shabaka), (2 02) 341 8011 (tel) or 341 8013 (fax), Negad Al-Borai, Executive Director, Group for Democratic Development, gdd@egyptonline.com.
Kuwait
The Kuwaiti Foundation for the Advancement of Science (KFAS) was formed in 1976 by Kuwaiti businesses to support scientific progress. All shareholding companies in Kuwait are required to make an annual contribution of 5% of net profits; many companies include this requirement in their articles of association. The compulsory contribution to the KFAS from Kuwaiti shareholding companies has now been reduced to 2%. (Middle East Economic Digest, 15 January 1999)
Morocco
A working group comprised of NGOs and government officials has begun to draft new legislation for NGOs in Morocco. The General Secretary of the Ministry of Justice. Ahmad Gazali, is participating in the group and other high government officials, including the king’s legal counsel, are interested in this effort. ICNL is making available recent legislation and draft legislation from France as well as other Francophone countries in Africa to assist this effort. For further information, please contact Ferid Belhaq of the World Bank, fbelhaq@worldbank.org.