At NGO Monitor this week… Week ending Feb 1st 2008

January 31st, 2008 | Category: Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, NGO Monitor

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 […]

Ford Funding for NGOs – Moving Away from Durban?

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, […]

NIF UK promotes Danny Rubenstein, despite his “apartheid” comment at EU/UN conference

September 6th, 2007 | Category: Durban Conference, Adalah, New Israel Fund, Mossawa

The New Israel Fund in the UK went ahead with a September 3 appearance by Danny Rubenstein (Ha’aretz columnist), despite his labeling Israel as an “ apartheid state” at the EU/UN “International Conference of Civil Society in Support of Israeli-Palestinian Peace.” (The British Zionist Federation […]

UN Watch issues detailed updates on two upcoming UN “fiascos” of Israel-bashing

August 20th, 2007 | Category: Durban Conference, UN

UN Watch has issued detailed updated of two upcoming UN conferences. According to UN Watch, the upcoming meeting of the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, which will take place in Belgium at the European Parliament August […]

Durban 2009: Another Travesty Nears? Libya Set to Head UN Anti-Racism Conference.

June 20th, 2007 | Category: Durban Conference, UN
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As NGO Monitor has reported, in November, 2006, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution to convene a 2009 follow-up to the World Conference Against Racism. The follow-up event will yet again take place in Durban. This item represents NGO Monitor’s ongoing monitoring of events and preparation leading up to Durban 2009.In a […]