July 5th, 2009 | Category:
Media,
Oxfam
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A report for the UK Department for Internatioanal Development (DFID) found that “more than half of all international coverage on the main UK bulletins focused on the USA, Australia and Israel.” Reportedly, charities are therefore finding it more difficult to “generate coverage for international stories”. Oxfam’s head of media, Sam Barratt, lamented this phenomenon saying [...]
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March 27th, 2008 | Category:
Amnesty International,
CARE,
Christian Aid,
Durban Conference,
Ethics,
Human Rights,
NGO Monitor,
New Israel Fund,
Oxfam
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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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December 19th, 2007 | Category:
Amnesty International,
Boycott / Divestment,
Durban Conference,
Government Funding,
Human Rights,
Human Rights Watch,
NGOs,
Oxfam,
War on Want
Tags: none
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 16th, 2007 | Category:
EU,
Government Funding,
Human Rights,
Oxfam
On October 11, Oxfam GB’s Jerusalem office distributed a copy of a press release detailing a resolution passed by the European Parliament, which “calls for the lift [sic] of the blockade in Gaza and free movement for people and goods on all [sic] the Occupied Palestinian Territories.” (The document NGO Monitor obtained appears to be [...]
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