Activists accuse Mozambican government of wanting to “control” NGOs
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- 03 Apr 2023
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A proposal for a law on non-profit organizations, submitted to the Assembly of the Republic, provides that the Government can dissolve non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in the case of alleged crimes, removing this power from the courts, which is contested by social activists .
“Civil society organizations are associating some articles of this proposal with the will of political power to control civil society”, said Edson Cortez, director of the NGO Center for Public Integrity.
For Cortez, it is an “aberration” that the proposal imposes on civil society organizations the obligation of periodically rendering accounts to the Government, under the argument of combating money laundering and terrorism.
“The little money that society organizations have comes from the same partners that they give to the Mozambican Government”, he emphasized, to illustrate the transparent way in which NGOs are funded.
With the law, he continued, the authorities intend to condition the supervision of government activity carried out by NGOs, given that “the opposition is a nullity” in Mozambique.
Dércio Alfazema, director of programs at the Institute for Multiparty Democracy (IMD, in its English acronym), noted that the referred bill raises “distrust” because civil society was not consulted. Read More…
