Thursday, October 8, 2015

GOOD NEWS Ecuador: Governament Abandons Process to Close NGO - URGENT ACTION

Amnesty International

"On 25 September the National Communication Secretariat (Secretaria Nacional de Comunicación, Secom) notified Fundamedios, a national NGO working on freedom of expression issues in Ecuador, that the process they initiated on 7 September to shut them down has been abandoned. 

Secom stated in their notification to Fundamedios that they reached this decision after accepting the Ombudsman’s request, which days earlier urged them to prevent the dissolution and closure of Fundamedios in order to strengthen opportunities for dialogue with civil society organizations. However, Secom also included a “final warning” to Fundamedios to “comply with its own statutes, especially the prohibition of exercising matters of a political nature, avoiding raising unfounded alerts for the sole purpose of damaging the prestige of Ecuador and its institutions, and make transparent its sources of financing and the use of these resources when this authority so requires.""
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