Category: Human Rights Watch

In contrast to many NGOs that have signed the joint statement declaring their moral opposition to a repetition of the antisemitic hatred that dominated the NGO Forum of the 2001 Durban conference, Human Rights Watch has waffled. HRW’s “Position Paper on the Durban Preparatory Committee”  (April 21, 2008) admits that “the NGO forum at the […]

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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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Kenneth Roth, who runs HRW, asks: Is Israel’s Blockade of Gaza the Right Way to Respond to Palestinian Rocket Attacks?
Roth and HRW ask whether Israel’s response to the hundreds of Hamas rocket attacks is “the right way”. Roth runs a human rights organization, and has no experience or specialized knowledge in security and anti-terror […]

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In our post on Reports Without Borders condemnation of the Hamas sniper who fired at the media, we touched on a recent case of Hamas propaganda in relation to the power situation in Gaza. As Jerusalem Post reported “On at least two occasions this week, Hamas staged scenes of darkness”.
This reminds us of another […]

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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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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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October 28, 2007            Today’s Ha’aretz English edition (October 28 2007) included Ken Roth’s latest salvo regarding the 2006 Lebanon War. During and after the war, Roth and Human Rights Watch, which he heads, were central in the political assault on Israel, publishing 30 statements, opeds, and reports — almost all condemning the Israeli response to […]

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On September 24th, San Francisco Chronicle published an article, ‘Human Rights Watch – Scrutinizing War from Both Sides’, in which HRW’s Executive Director Ken Roth boldly claims that ‘in a war, we will always report both sides’.  He even uses HRW’s investigations of the 2006 Second Lebanon War as a prime […]

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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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