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Adalah Attorney appointed as prosecutor on International Tribunal for Former Yugoslovia

NGO Monitor
July 08, 2007

Haaretz reports that "An Israeli Arab attorney was appointed as a prosecutor to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), which is based in The Hague. Marwan Dalal, an attorney with Adalah, the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, will begin his work at the international court later this month. Dalal will be the first Arab Israeli to serve in such an important international legal forum, in which only a few Israelis have ever served."

Head of UNRWA: Hamas must secure crossings, UNRWA Head Cites Gisha Report

NGO Monitor
July 08, 2007

Hamass failure to secure the passages into the Gaza Strip drew criticism from an unlikely source on Thursday, John Ging, who heads the United Nations Relief and Works Agencys operations in the Strip. It is very clear the responsibility lies with the Palestinians, Ging told The Jerusalem Post by telephone from Gaza, on a day when Palestinians fired mortar shells at two of the three open passages into Gaza. Such activity, he said, "directly impacts on the humanitarian plight of the Palestinians living in Gaza." ....Ging cited a report issued a day earlier by Gisha, the Legal Center for Freedom of Movement, which said that since the closure, 75% of Gazas factories had shut down. The deepening poverty as a result of the closures meant that more humanitarian assistance would be needed, he said. "It is pushing more and more people into the poverty trap," Ging said.

Amnesty International honors Alan Johnston Day after his release

NGO Monitor
July 05, 2007

The BBC's Alan Johnston was honored with a prestigious journalism award just hours after being freed following 114 days in captivity. Johnston won the radio journalism category at Amnesty International's annual media awards, which recognize excellence in human rights reporting. He had been selected before news of his release emerged. "Receiving this year's Radio award on Alan Johnston's behalf, his father Graham drew attention to all the campaigners around the world, especially Palestinian journalists and Alan's colleagues at the BBC Palestine Bureau, who tirelessly campaigned for his freedom....As the world celebrates, however, we should not forget the insecurity, poverty and unemployment faced by the 1.5 million people who remain in Gaza, many of whom joined in the call for his release."

Israel must re-open the Rafah Crossing, allow stranded Gazans in and out of Gaza

NGO Monitor
July 05, 2007

In a recent press release, Al Mezan Center for Human Rights calls on Isreal to re-open the Gaza crossings to allow stranded Gazans in and out. According to Al Mezan, about five thousand Palestinians have been stranded in Egypt and hundreds inside Gaza as Israel closed the Rafah Crossing; Gaza's sole connection with the outside world, since 9 June 2007. Since that date, the crossing opened for few hours allowing some 160 Palestinians who were denied access into Egypt to enter the Strip. Many of those are children, sick and elderly.

HRW calls on Hizbullah, Hamas, and Israel to release hostages

NGO Monitor
July 05, 2007

Human Rights Watch has issued a press release calling for the release of Israeli prisoners in Gaza and Lebanon, as well as for Israel to release Hamas legislators and ministers taken in reprisal. The call to release Israeli prisoners comes a few days after Hamas aired a tape on the one-year anniversary of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit's capture, and a few days after HRW issued a report blaming Palestinians for missile fire from Gaza as well as Israel's response; HRW accused both sides of committing war crimes.

"Powerful and politically incorrect animation Amnesty International - France"

NGO Monitor
July 04, 2007

Amnesty International - France has posted a powerful anti-torture animation that is far from politically correct, and does not display the biases and double standards that have become common. If this is the new trend in Amnesty-France, it marks a very important return to basic support for universal human rights.

"UN Springs Into Action, Plans Another Israel-Bashing Conference"

NGO Monitor
July 03, 2007

A UN conference of non-government organizations (NGOs) called to discuss civil society in support of Israeli-Palestinian peace at the end of August has been described by an Israeli NGO watchdog as an anti-Israel propaganda conference. The meeting, set to take place at the European Parliament (EP) on August 30 - 31, has been organized by the UNs Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, which describes itself as the main UN forum where all NGOs interested in the Palestine issue can meet.

"One year after its creation, Human Rights Council achieves disturbingly little"

NGO Monitor
June 21, 2007

A year after the creation of the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council to replace the discredited UN Human Rights Commission, Reporters Without Borders today voiced deep concern about the new bodys functioning and, in particular, the obstructionist manoeuvres by member countries that are the worst human rights violators...

"ADL Calls Amnesty Report 'Fundamentally Biased' Against Israel"

NGO Monitor
June 05, 2007

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today strongly criticized the latest Amnesty International report on living conditions in the West Bank, saying that the reports dismissal of the West Bank security fence as providing greater safety for the citizens of Israel highlights the fundamental bias of the organization....

Amnesty Irrational

NGO Monitor
May 31, 2007

Following Amnesty Internationals release of its Annual Report, Jamie Weinstein, a Collegiate Network Fellow, claims that "instead of maintaining a worldwide scope and focusing on the gravest human rights abuses, Amnesty disproportionately targets one country: the United States."

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