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Human Rights without bias

December 27th, 2007 | Category: Durban Conference, Human Rights First
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“The international community must take a firm stand against any hate crime against anyone, anywhere. No one community under threat should be left to stand alone in the face of violent hatred and bigotry.”

Michael Posner, president of the NGO Human Rights First, made some refreshingly blunt statements on human rights in his op-ed on […]

Response to the Seth Freedman´s “Selective Criticism” article in the Guardian

December 19th, 2007 | Category: Durban Conference, Human Rights, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Boycott / Divestment, NGOs, Government Funding, Oxfam, War on Want
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In his Guardian article on NGO Monitor’s conference, Seth Freedman demonstrated that we are doing our job – “promoting critical debate and accountability on human rights NGOs in the Arab-Israeli conflict”. He is right that “nobody gets a free ride” – the halo effect which has protected political superpowers like Amnesty International and Human […]

Radical NGOs pull out of ´Anti-Annapolis conference´ in Madrid hosted by Spanish government, after Spanish Foreign Ministry invites Israeli groups that oppose a ´one-state solution´

December 18th, 2007 | Category: Boycott / Divestment, NGOs, Government Funding, ICAHD, Ittijah, Palestinian NGO Network, EU
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According to a December 16, 2007 Ha’aretz report, “an investment of hundreds of thousands of dollars, loads of time and countless attempts at intensive Spanish-brokered talks between Israelis and Palestinians went down the drain,” when a “peace gathering” scheduled to take place December 14-16 in […]