July 31st, 2008 | Category:
Durban Conference,
Durban Review Conference,
Ford Foundation,
Government Funding
Provisional Agenda of the African Regional Preparatory Meeting Released
July 15, 2008, United Nations Secretary-General
According to this document, the African Regional Preparatory Meeting for the Durban Review Conference, to be held in Abuja, Nigeria on August 24-26, 2008, will address the “implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action by all stakeholders at the national, [...]
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February 2nd, 2008 | Category:
Ethics,
Ford Foundation,
Government Funding,
Human Rights
Over the past few decades the world of charitable giving and philanthropy has changed beyond recognition. Long gone are the days when generous benefactors, heirs to the family fortune, simply signed a large check to a faceless, but undoubtedly good cause. Previously the benefactor typically remained somewhat aloof to the cause itself, trusting that [...]
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November 21st, 2007 | Category:
Badil,
Boycott / Divestment,
Durban Conference,
EU,
Ford Foundation,
Government Funding,
NGOs,
Palestinian NGO Network
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The Palestinian Non-Governmental Organizations Network (PNGO), a radical Palestinian NGO which played a prominent role at Durban 2001, has organized a conference – “First Palestinian Conference for the Boycott of Israel (BDS)” — along with other radical anti-Israel groups, including OPGAI-Coalition, Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), and the [...]
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October 31st, 2007 | Category:
Ford Foundation
(A response to Scott Sherman’s “Fixing the Ford Foundation,” October 21, 2007, LA Times)
NGO Monitor and others exposed the Ford Foundation’s funding of NGOs that hijacked the 2001 Durban Conference to promote anti-Israel demonization under the guise of human rights. This started a much-needed public debate, and led the President of Ford, Susan Berresford, [...]
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October 14th, 2007 | Category:
Ford Foundation
As the New York Sun reported in September, The Ford Foundation, which came under US congressional scrutiny in 2003 “for supporting groups committed to destroying Israel,” again has drawn censure from American elected officials, this time for funding a panel at Columbia University “highlighting a professor who blames Israel and its American supporters for the [...]
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