Swedish Committee For Vietnam
The Swedish Committee for Vietnam KfV – ''Svenska Kommittén för Vietnam''was a pacifist non-governmental organization founded in Sweden in 1967 that supported North-Vietnam in the Vietnam War. The SKfV was a restructuring of the former Swedish Vietnam Committee VK – ''Svenska Vietnamkommittén'' The committee was aimed at supporting North Vietnam and strongly opposed American involvement in Vietnam with the slogan "Peace in Vietnam" through monetary aid, the torchlight procession, providing asylum for draft evaders, and letters to the Swedish government. Politically left leaning, the SKfV was tied to the Social Democratic Party. The SKfV aimed to increase public focus and involvement in Vietnam. The SKfV pushed the Swedish government to critique the United States over its involvement in what was formerly French Indochina and organized campaigns to raise support for North Vietnam. This campaign exacerbated the worsening Swedish-United States tensions over the American War ...
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Non-governmental Organizations In Peru
The politics of the Republic of Peru takes place in a framework of a Unitary state, unitary Semi-presidential system, semi-presidential Representative democracy, representative democratic republic, whereby the President of Peru is both head of state and head of government, and of a Diversity (politics), pluriform multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the President and the Government. Legislative power is vested in both the Government and the Congress of the Republic of Peru, Congress. The Judiciary of Peru, Judiciary is independent of the executive and the legislature. Traditionally weak political party, political parties saw their support collapse further in Peru since 2000, paving the way for the rise of personalist leaderships. The political parties in the Congress of the Republic of Peru, congress of Peru are, according to political scientist Lucía Dammert, "agglomerations of individual and group interests more than solid and representative parties". The histor ...
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