July 27th, 2009 | Category:
Human Rights Watch,
Media
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On July 17, 2009, in the International Law Observer, David McGrogan suggests that HRW and other NGOs do not deliberately target Israel or use double standards, but rather blames “the untrustworthy nature of media reporting on the Israel/Palestine issue, which is all too frequently exaggerated, bombastic, and inaccurate.” Systematic examination of the record shows that [...]
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July 23rd, 2009 | Category:
Human Rights Watch,
NGO Monitor
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Human Rights Watch and Its Saudi Donors, The Forward, July 22, 2009
Comment: Gerald Steinberg — NGO Monitor:
HRW and its hard-core defenders claim that the NGO superpower does not target Israel, does not use double standards, and should be immune from independent investigation. For example, this article notes “a recent review by the news agency Inter [...]
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July 20th, 2009 | Category:
Adalah,
Al Haq,
Badil,
EU,
Government Funding,
Human Rights Watch,
Lawfare,
New Israel Fund,
Palestinian Center for Human Rights,
UN
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On July 22 and 23, 2009, The UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People will hold an NGO conference examining “Responsibility of the international community to uphold international humanitarian law to ensure the protection of civilians in the Occupied Palestinian Territory in the wake of the war in Gaza”. [...]
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July 18th, 2009 | Category:
Human Rights Watch
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Since 2004, NGO Monitor has analyzed Human Rights Watch’s Middle East output using a weighted scale methodology[1] to rank and count publications on each country per year. This gives a consistent and informative picture of the research priorities and distribution of resources across the division. To expand the analysis, NGO Monitor studies have also examined [...]
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July 16th, 2009 | Category:
Human Rights Watch
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Human rights groups gain their moral standing by adhering to standards based on universal human rights, meaning a single standard for all countries, and eschewing political and ideological biases. In contrast, HRW officials, their activities and the products they produce, fall far short of this standard, particularly when it comes to Israel, as NGO Monitor [...]
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July 16th, 2009 | Category:
Human Rights Watch
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HRW Goes to Cover-up mode
The widespread criticism of Human Rights Watch (HRW) for soliciting funds from the Saudis (see NGO Monitor’s May 27 analysis, based on the Arab News) by touting the need to counter Jewish and “pro-Israel pressure groups” has dulled the sheen on HRW’s moral armor. And as usual, the cover-up adds to [...]
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July 5th, 2009 | Category:
Media,
Oxfam
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A report for the UK Department for Internatioanal Development (DFID) found that “more than half of all international coverage on the main UK bulletins focused on the USA, Australia and Israel.” Reportedly, charities are therefore finding it more difficult to “generate coverage for international stories”. Oxfam’s head of media, Sam Barratt, lamented this phenomenon saying [...]
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