Category: Amnesty International

The draft report cited in the article “American Internships in Israel Promote Extremism, Report Says” (Chronicle of Higher Education, April 16, 2008) is part of NGO Monitor’s ongoing research focusing on the boundaries between human rights norms and partisan ideological campaigning. As quoted, the analysis of the activities of the NGOs chosen for these internships […]

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Prof. Michael Pinto-Duschinsky published an article in the 21 March edition of the Jewish Chronicle (UK) agreeing with NGO Monitor’s analysis on the political biases and false claims of leading “charities”, and “human rights groups”, including Amnesty International, Christian Aid and Oxfam.  As he notes, these groups systematically abuse the rhetoric of human rights, and […]

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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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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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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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Joshua Rubenstein, the Northeast Regional Director of Amnesty International USA has responded with criticism to Charles Jacobs (co-founder of the American Anti-Slavery Group) in the Boston Jewish Advocate. In his oped, Jacobs had noted the potential dangers of NGO participation in the plans for the 2009 UN “Durban” Review Conference.
Rubenstein rejected the emphasis Jacobs […]

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In his Guardian article on NGO Monitor’s conference, Seth Freedman demonstrated that we are doing our job – “promoting critical debate and accountability on human rights NGOs in the Arab-Israeli conflict”. He is right that “nobody gets a free ride” – the halo effect which has protected political superpowers like Amnesty International and Human […]

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              The conflict and human rights crisis in Burma (also known as Myanmar) has suddenly exploded, and, very belatedly, the discredited UN human rights mechanisms and the army of associated NGOs are calling for international action. But a large part of this tragedy results from the fact that, as in the case of the mass […]

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In a July 2007 article, The Human Rights Council: A New Era in UN Human Rights Work?, Yvonne Terlingen, the director of Amnesty International’s offices at the UN, directed pointed criticism at the activity of the allegedly ‘reformed’ UN Human Rights Council. Discussing the Councils actions […]

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Wired Magazine (online) features a page where readers can post details about the editing of Wikipedia pages by interested parties. One reader posted an item detailing how Amnesty International edits out criticism of its organization on the Wikipedia page – including NGO Monitor’s detailed examples of false reports and […]

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