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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May 21st, 2009 | Category:
Amnesty International,
Human Rights Watch,
International Humanitarian Law,
Lawfare
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The long history of “Lawfare” use by NGOs is in jeopardy due to a change in Spanish universal jurisdiction laws. Pressure by foreign governments including Israel caused the move as NGOs respond with upset and claims that impunity will increase.
“Lawfare” has been a popular NGO tool for political campaigns against Israel since the first UN [...]
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May 6th, 2009 | Category:
Al Haq,
Human Rights Watch,
Lawfare
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NGO superpower, Human Rights Watch, has long promoted Palestinian NGO, Al Haq, in its publications. It regularly cites to Al Haq reports and has been the leader in the campaign to end the travel restrictions on suspected PFLP senior activist and Al Haq’s General Director, Shawan Jabarin. Based on information discovered by NGO Monitor, it [...]
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March 17th, 2009 | Category:
Amnesty International,
International Humanitarian Law,
Lawfare
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March 16, 2009
To:
Prof. Dr. M. Cherif Bassiouni
Prof. Dr. Alex Boraine
Prof. Dr. Antonio Cassese
Mr. Luc Côté
Justice Richard J. Goldstone
Ms. Hina Jilani
Prof. Dr. Salomón Lerner Febres
Mr. Dumisa Ntsebeza
Prof. Dr. Stelios Perrakis
Prof. Dr. Paulo Sergio Pinheiro
Ms. Mary Robinson
Prof. William A. Schabas
Ms. Yasmin Sooka
Mr. Desmond Travers
Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu
Mr. Ralph Zacklin
We are deeply disappointed that you are a signatory [...]
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March 16th, 2009 | Category:
Amnesty International,
Boycott / Divestment,
Lawfare
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The Durban Strategy of isolating Israel internationally consists, in part, of: “a policy of complete and total isolation of Israel as an apartheid state…the imposition of mandatory and comprehensive sanctions and embargoes” and “the establishment of a war crimes tribunal to investigate and bring to justice those who may be guilty of war crimes, acts [...]
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March 15th, 2009 | Category:
EU,
International Humanitarian Law,
Lawfare,
Palestinian Center for Human Rights
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PCHR issued a report supposedly documenting the status of the casualties in Gaza. The organization claims that 960 of the dead were civilians yet the group classifies arch-terrorist Nizar Rayan as a civilian as well as many members of the Qassam rocket brigades. Groups such as CAMERA have debunked many more of the statistics.
The Jerusalem [...]
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March 9th, 2009 | Category:
Amnesty International,
International Humanitarian Law,
Lawfare
Tags: none
ICC prosecutor mulls ‘Gaza war crimes’ probe, YNet News, March 9, 2009
The chief prosecutor of the Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC) announced he may launch an investigation into alleged Israeli war crimes committed during its recent military offensive in Gaza…Moreno-Ocampo said he was examining complaints filed by Palestinian Justice Minister Ali Kashan in January according [...]
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