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, […]

Ford draws US congressional scrutiny for funding Columbia Panel, Mearsheimer speech

October 14th, 2007 | Category: Ford Foundation

As the New York Sun reported in September, The Ford Foundation, which came under US congressional scrutiny in 2003 “for supporting groups committed to destroying Israel,” again has drawn censure from American elected officials, this time for funding a panel at Columbia University “highlighting a professor who blames Israel and its American supporters for the […]