Event
Behind the Mask of Altruism
Wednesday, October 30, 2013 12:00to13:30
Education Building
Room 233, 3700 rue McTavish, Montreal, QC, H3A 1Y2, CA
A guest seminar on globalization, education and change with Nikolas Barry-Shaw and Dru Oja Jay
鈥淣GOs are as Canadian as hockey,鈥� declared a 1988 Parliamentary report. Few institutions embody the image of Canada's international benevolence like non-governmental organizations (NGOs) devoted to development abroad. But do the actions of Canadian NGOs match this perception? 聽Recently, the altruistic image of NGOs has been disturbed by controversy about Canadian government-funded Corporate Social Responsibility partnerships between mining companies and Canadian NGOs.
