{"id":8919,"date":"2019-09-12T13:00:39","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T04:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/12\/bill-and-melinda-gates-foundation-under-fire-over-award-for-narendra-modi"},"modified":"2019-09-12T13:00:39","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T04:00:39","slug":"bill-and-melinda-gates-foundation-under-fire-over-award-for-narendra-modi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=8919","title":{"rendered":"Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation under fire over award for Narendra Modi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alleged human rights violations cast a pall over recognition of Indian prime minister\u2019s flagship sanitation and hygiene initiative<\/p>\n<p>The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is facing a barrage of criticism from prominent lawyers, human rights activists and philanthropists after it announced that it would honour India\u2019s controversial Hindu nationalist prime minister with an award later this month. <\/p>\n<p>The Global Goalkeeper award recognises Narendra Modi\u2019s flagship <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2014\/oct\/02\/modi-launches-indian-clean-up-campaign\">Clean India programme<\/a>, through which the government has built millions of toilets and publicised the benefits of sanitation and hygiene.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/12\/bill-and-melinda-gates-foundation-under-fire-over-award-for-narendra-modi\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alleged human rights violations cast a pall over recognition of Indian prime minister\u2019s flagship sanitation and hygiene initiativeThe Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is facing a barrage of criticism from prominent lawyers, human rights activists and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8920,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8919\/revisions\/8920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}