Old Articles of Interest
FARCs Human Rights Friends
Excerpt: But what seems to have been a walk in the park was getting the FARC to believe that an NGO was providing resources to help it in the dirty work of ferrying captives to a new location. Since the late 1990s, the NGO practice of dragging the military into court on allegations of human rights violations has destroyed the careers of some of the countrys finest officers, even though most of these men were found innocent after years of proceedings.
Why We Need to Look Hard at the NGOs Flaws
An article by the Secretary General of CARE International on the difficulties of operating and evaluating the work of NGOs on the global stage.
Bracing for Dugard
Later this month the United Nations's Council on Human Rights will consider a report issued by the Special Rapporteur for Palestine, John Dugard. The report condones acts of terrorism against Israel, in clear contravention of resolutions by the Security Council, the General Assembly, and a report by then U.N. Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, that acts of terrorism are criminal wherever and by whoever commits them, regardless of motivation.
