October 29th, 2009 | Category:
Ethics,
Human Rights,
Human Rights Watch,
NGO Monitor
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While Human Rights Watch (HRW), headed by Kenneth Roth, attempts to defend itself from the powerful critique levelled by founder Robert Bernstein in the New York Times, Helena Cobban — on the board of HRW’s Middle East and North Africa division — added further evidence of total moral collapse.
In her October 22 posting, Cobban attacked Bernstein [...]
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October 29th, 2009 | Category:
Adalah,
Al Haq,
Amnesty International,
Badil,
Defence for Children International-Palestine,
EU,
Government Funding,
Human Rights Watch,
International Commission of Jurists,
International Humanitarian Law,
Ittijah,
Palestinian Center for Human Rights,
UN
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Taken from UNHRC webcast:
MRAP (France):
“Despite the dozens of resolutions adopted by various UN bodies condemning the actions of the state of Israel, colonial occupation follows the destruction, massacres follow the abuses, and the international law is constantly trampled.”
FIDH, PCHR (Raji Sourani) (Norway, Ireland, Sweden, Denmark, Austria, Switzerland, Netherlands, European Union):
“The smell of death and destruction [...]
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October 26th, 2009 | Category:
Human Rights Watch
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In response to Robert Bernstein’s shattering October 20 New York Times Oped that HRW places disproportionate focus on Israel, members of HRW’s board responded that
“Human Rights Watch does not devote more time and energy to Israel than to other countries in the region, or in the world. We’ve produced more than 1,700 reports, letters, news [...]
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October 23rd, 2009 | Category:
Amnesty International,
International Humanitarian Law
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The denial of Palestinian agency or culpability has been a long standing theme in NGO publications on the Arab-Israeli conflict. Examples include failing to hold Palestinian society responsible for electing a genocidal terror organization and the consequences that have resulted; ignoring Palestinian corruption, and minimizing the Palestinian choice to engage in violence to achieve political [...]
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October 14th, 2009 | Category:
Human Rights Watch
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On October 13, Garlasco enlisted his good buddy at Esquire, John Richardson, to write a self-serving puff piece about how Garlasco is one of the “bravest” and “effective” investigators at Human Rights Watch, and that NGO Monitor is out to “personally destroy” a “good man.”
Garlasco is doing a pretty good job destroying himself all on [...]
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October 11th, 2009 | Category:
Human Rights Watch
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“Israel is Responsible for Supplying Hamas students with Textbooks” – Including Holocaust denial; promotion of attacks on civilians; denying the legitimacy of Israel’s existence?
HRW and Sarah Leah Whitson (head of the Middle East division) have again issued a ridiculous condemnation against Israel (October 9). This time, the organization, whose Middle East division is run by [...]
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