January 31st, 2008 | Category:
Human Rights Watch,
Amnesty International,
NGO Monitor
This Monday, January 28, NGO Monitor published a report outlining Ford Foundation funding. The report demonstrates that, despite post-Durban policies against the funding of radical NGOs, the Ford Foundation has continued funding groups who exploit human rights rhetoric.
Tuesday, January 29, NGO Monitor published an analysis of Human Rights Watch response to the crisis in […]
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January 30th, 2008 | Category:
Human Rights,
Human Rights Watch,
Ethics
Kenneth Roth, who runs HRW, asks: Is Israel’s Blockade of Gaza the Right Way to Respond to Palestinian Rocket Attacks?
Roth and HRW ask whether Israel’s response to the hundreds of Hamas rocket attacks is “the right way”. Roth runs a human rights organization, and has no experience or specialized knowledge in security and anti-terror […]
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January 29th, 2008 | Category:
Human Rights,
Ethics
Is too much aid ever a problem? According to Martin Kramer’s Sandbox, if a report in the Boston Globe is accurate Gaza may soon be “buried in flour”.
The Globe’s report is written by Eyad al-Sarraj, founder of the Gaza Community Mental Health Program, and Sara Roy, a political economist and researcher at the Center for […]
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January 28th, 2008 | Category:
Human Rights Watch
In our post on Reports Without Borders condemnation of the Hamas sniper who fired at the media, we touched on a recent case of Hamas propaganda in relation to the power situation in Gaza. As Jerusalem Post reported “On at least two occasions this week, Hamas staged scenes of darkness”.
This reminds us of another […]
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January 27th, 2008 | Category:
Human Rights,
B'tselem
Reporters Without Borders has condemned a Palestinian sniper who took shots at the media as they tried to report on the murder of Carlos Andres Muscara Chavez, a 21 year old volunteer from Ecuador. We reported on B’tselems condemnation of Carlos’ murder previously and we are still waiting to see more of a response from […]
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January 26th, 2008 | Category:
Human Rights,
Human Rights Watch,
Amnesty International,
Medecins Sans Frontieres,
NGO Monitor
In this post, we discuss the question of ethics for those who take jobs with human rights organizations. This will be the first of a series of posts on this topic that we will cover in the coming weeks. If you are an employee of an NGO and would like to contribute to the discussion […]
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January 25th, 2008 | Category:
NGO Monitor
Tags: none
This is the first of our weekly blog reports keeping people informed on the regular work of NGO Monitor. Comments on our work are welcome.
NGO Monitor published a report on Tuesday detailing the responses of NGOs towards the Gaza crisis.
This week NGO Monitor has also highlighted two article dealing directly with NGOs:
On Sunday Anna Morgan […]
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January 21st, 2008 | Category:
Human Rights,
Human Rights Watch,
Amnesty International,
Lebanon War 2006
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Justin Elliott at Mother Jones blog posted questions that five experts would ask the US Presidential candidates if given the chance.
One of the experts, Dr. Stephen Zunes posed the question:
For Senator Clinton. During the 2006 war in Lebanon, you co-sponsored a resolution condemning Hezbollah for its alleged use of “human shields.” Since then, detailed on-the-ground […]
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January 18th, 2008 | Category:
Human Rights,
UN,
B'tselem
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B’tselem (an Israeli human rights NGO) condemned the murder of Carlos Andrés Muscara Chávez, a 21 year old Kibbutz volunteer and visitor to Israel from Ecuador. He was killed by a Palestinian sniper as he worked in a potato field. Condemnation for this senseless and deliberate murder should be heard from many human rights organisations. […]
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January 12th, 2008 | Category:
Durban Conference,
Human Rights,
NGOs
Tags: none
Taken literally, the term ‘NGO’ or ‘non-governmental organization’ can be used to describe an almost never ending list of groups. However, to understand the role that NGOs seek to play and why they need to be monitored, we must first understand a little of their purpose and origins…During the nineteenth century, this is what […]
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