Skepticism-related NGOs?

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I'm a college student and I'm working on a tiny project concerning non-governmental organisations. I have to pick any one org and I thought it would be nice to do something concerning skepticism. Now, where I live (India) there aren't any organisations like that that I know of.

So, are there any prominent international NGOs related to skepticism and critical thinking? Does the JREF qualify as an NGO? I'm not exactly sure. Even if it does, can anyone give me links to other such organisations (if any)?

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.



Sid
 
Currently up on news.yahoo.com:

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An activist of the Science and Rationalists' Association of India performs a fire-breathing act as she demonstrates against claims that Mother Teresa performed a miracle in Calcutta. (AFP/Deshakalyan Chowdhury)
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I assume this will change soon, but I don't know how to link the slideshow itself, I think it's a Javascript thing.

Maybe this will do it?
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http://www.rense.com/general30/terr.htm

CALCUTTA, India (Reuters) - A group of Indian rationalists challenged Tuesday a miracle attributed to Mother Teresa that has put her on the path to sainthood and called for a government inquiry into whether it took place.
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But Probir Ghosh, general-secretary of the Science and Rationalists Association of India, said the West Bengal communist government "should look seriously into whether this so-called miracle took place."

"We're sure there's a medical reason for her cure. There's no such thing as a miracle cure," he told Reuters.

The association, which claims 20,000 members across the country, was founded in 1985 to free Indians from superstition and to promote scientific thinking. "Promoting miracle cures is unscientific and encourages false beliefs," Ghosh said.
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http://humanists.net/avijit/prabir/
Prabir Ghosh is the 54-year-old chief of the Rationalists’ Association and the scourge of every guru, godman, fakir, faith-healer and fat swami for a hundred miles of his home in Calcutta. He is the author of 13 Bengali-language best sellers, among them such classics as 'Nothing Supernatural' and 'Why I Don’t Believe In God'. Despite nine assassination attempts, including a hit-and-run attack by a man on an Enfield motorbike that left Ghosh with four broken ribs, he has waged a lifelong campaign to expose Indian gurus for what he believes they are: charlatans. ‘There was a time when there were a lot of godmen in Calcutta,’ says Ghosh with a schoolboy grin. ‘Not any more.’
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