Doina Bumbea
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Doina Bumbea was a Romanian painter who was abducted to North Korea in 1978. Born in Bucharest, Bumbea left Romania in 1970 and went to Italy, where she studied fine arts and became a painter. There,
Image of Doina Bumbea taken from her Facebook page, administered by her living brother
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Doina Bumbea
…married to James Joseph Dresnok, with whom she had two sons. Bumbea died in 1997 of lung cancer in Pyongyang. Later, her brother Gabriel founded an NGO in her honor and tried to contact his nephews in North Korea. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania and several Romanian officials have been made…
Europe-Georgia Institute head George Melashvili addresses the audience at the launch of the "Europe in a suitcase" project by two NGOs (the EGI and the Friedrich Naumann Foundation), which aims to increase cooperation between European politicians, journalists and representatives of the civic sector and academia with their counterparts in Georgia.
World NGO Day 2014 in Afghanistan
Workers from an NGO participating in local community work - some critics allege that NGOs prioritize their special interests over community wellbeing.