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Faced with the Trump administration’s dismantling of foreign aid programs and retreat from the World Health Organization, international health-and-development nonprofits are making urgent appeals to big philanthropies, including the Gates Foundation and Open Philanthropy, to fill in the gap. Last year the U.S. devoted more than $12 billion to global health. The next biggest funder, the Gates Foundation, provided a fraction of that — less than $2 billion — in 2023. “There is no foundation — or group of foundations — that can provide the funding, work force capacity, expertise, or leadership that the United States has historically provided to combat and control deadly diseases and address hunger and poverty around the world,” the foundation’s North America director, Rob Nabors, said by email. (New York Times)
A court case that will test the limits of free speech, and could potentially send Greenpeace into bankruptcy, goes to trial today. At issue is the organization’s involvement in organizing protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline nearly a decade ago. Energy Transfer, a Dallas company, sued Greenpeace, accusing it of masterminding protests against the pipeline, which some Native American groups say encroaches on sacred land and threatens their water supply. Greenpeace says the company is jeopardizing its right to peaceful protest and estimates that if found guilty it could have to pay up to $300 million. Energy Transfer declined to comment, but in August the company said the case is about Greenpeace not following the law. (New York Times)
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