April 16th, 2008 | Category:
Human Rights,
Amnesty International,
Boycott / Divestment,
ICAHD,
Mossawa,
NGO Monitor,
Ethics
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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January 27th, 2008 | Category:
Human Rights,
B'tselem
Reporters Without Borders has condemned a Palestinian sniper who took shots at the media as they tried to report on the murder of Carlos Andres Muscara Chavez, a 21 year old volunteer from Ecuador. We reported on B’tselems condemnation of Carlos’ murder previously and we are still waiting to see more of a response from […]
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January 26th, 2008 | Category:
Human Rights,
Human Rights Watch,
Amnesty International,
Medecins Sans Frontieres,
NGO Monitor
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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October 21st, 2007 | Category:
Boycott / Divestment,
Separation Barrier,
UN,
Government Funding,
Badil,
ICAHD,
Palestinian NGO Network,
International Solidarity Movement,
EU
Birthright Unplugged–partnered with a number of radical NGOs, some of which receive EU funding—advances an extreme anti-Israel narrative via its “alternative” tours. It is not affiliated with the Taglit-Birthright Israel group; in fact, Birthright Unplugged has hijacked Taglit-Birthright’s name in order to advance a radically different, anti-Israel agenda.
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May 31st, 2007 | Category:
Government Funding
“What Is a Gongo? How government-sponsored groups masquerade as civil society.”, Moisés Naím, Foreign Policy, May/June 2007
“Gongos are government-sponsored nongovernmental organizations. Behind this contradictory and almost laughable tongue twister lies an important and growing global trend that deserves more scrutiny: governments funding and controlling nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), often stealthily. Some Gongos are benign, others […]
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