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 [...]
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December 19th, 2007 | Category:
Amnesty International,
Boycott / Divestment,
Durban Conference,
Government Funding,
Human Rights,
Human Rights Watch,
NGOs,
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 [...]
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December 18th, 2007 | Category:
Boycott / Divestment,
EU,
Government Funding,
ICAHD,
Ittijah,
NGOs,
Palestinian NGO Network
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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 [...]
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