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Government put their national interest ahead of NGO organisations should not come as a surprise to anyone. This reads like a failing part on the organisers to
by PradeetPatel 5mo ago
Government put their national interest ahead of NGO organisations should not come as a surprise to anyone.
This reads like a failing part on the organisers to manage such risk, and decided to kick up a stink about it instead of implementing a fallback strategy.
- eduction 5mo agoThey were not told of any issues until 8 days before the event, this week, after talking to government officials since 2024. What would your “fallback” be, eight days out? Very curious.
- junofan 5mo agoFallback would be doing > What the government wanted from us in order to lift the postponement
- eduction 5mo agoTake away someone's rights for your rights conference, what could possibly go wrong.
- PradeetPatel 5mo agoChange the physical conference into a virtual one, this way it respects the speakers, allow people to mingle and ideas to flourish. It's no replacement for an in-person conference, but this approach is better than straight up cancelling everything.
- cubefox 5mo agoIt was actually less than eight days out before they knew they were cancelled. It's hard to do something in so little time.
- eduction 5mo agoIt's Friday and the conference is Tuesday. Half their people, it sounds like, at least, are on the ground in Zambia already. You'd take a conference a year in the making and shift it online over a weekend from your hotel room in a developing country? No you would not. I don't blame them for not doing that.
- semiquaver 5mo agoThey weren’t told of any issues because there weren’t any issues until the Chinese government started applying pressure to Zambia.
- aaron695 5mo ago[dead]