Exchange of Correspondence with the World Bank PNGO Project

The following correspondence between NGO Monitor and Mr. Ghassan Kasabreh, World Bank PNGO Grants Director, accompanies the NGO Monitor report "World Bank PNGO Project: Support for Social Services diluted by Politicized Portal". The text is that of the letter from NGO Monitor, with the World Banks specific response to each section indented and in italics.

CJPP Launches Quebec Campaign of Boycott to Israeli Products

The Coalition for Justice and Peace in Palestine"(CJPP) launched Thursday a Quebec campaign of boycott to force Israel to respect international law, to end occupation and to make the Wall fall...

"Radical European NGOs promote Anti-Israel EU Report on Jerusalem"

European organisations today defied the refusal of EU Ministers to publish a report compiled by their own diplomats regarding Israeli violations of international law with regard to East Jerusalem...

Exchange of Correspondence with US State Department regarding their "Country Reports on Human Rights Practices"

Below is a letter sent by NGO Monitor to the U.S. State Department regarding the publication of the State Departments "Country Reports on Human Rights Practices," and in particular the section on "Israel and the Occupied Territories" in the 2004 report.

Briefing on NGOs and UN Reform President of the UN General Assembly

The UN-NGO Connection: Anti-Semitism Gets a Global Handshake

"UN Conference Features a Call for the End of the Jewish State"

Only two weeks after the UN hosted a conference at its New York Headquarters prominently displaying a map without the state of Israel, a UN conference in Caracas, Venezuela has featured a direct call for the end of the Jewish state...

Speakers at Caracas Meeting Explore Situation in Occupied Palestinian Territory

Coordinator, Israeli Committee against House Demolitions, Jerusalem, Jeff Halper, told participants this afternoon at the United Nations Latin American and Caribbean Meeting on the Question of Palestine, that given the facts on the ground, a two-State solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was no longer viable...

"An Open Letter From Friends of Sabeel to Our Supporters and to Internet Media"

As the chair of Friends of SabeelNorth America I am aware that Sabeel and its director, The Rev. Canon Naim Ateek, have received heightened press coverage in recent months, mainly on the internet but also in major newspapers. While allowing us to get our message out, regrettably some of the coverage has willfully distorted and twisted the message of Sabeel...

OPT: Palestinian Refugees Right of Return Remains at Core of Palestinian Public Agenda - Global Palestine Right-of-Return Coalition Holds 6th Annual Meeting

"Palestinian refugees' right of return will remain at the core of the Palestinian public agenda", says the global Palestine Right-of-Return Coalition. The 6th annual...