Submission to UN Human Rights Council on UNICEF and its NGO Working Group Fail Children in Israel and the Palestinian Authority

UNICEF plays a central role in a campaign to have Israel included on a UN blacklist of “grave” violators of children’s rights. The list appears as an annex to the UN Secretary-General’s annual report on Children and Armed Conflict (CAAC). This political agenda is a primary facet of UNICEF’s activities relating to Israel, completely inconsistent with its mandate of “child protection” and from its guidelines for neutrality and impartiality.

Topics

• UN Human Rights Council (HRC)
• United Nations

Submission to Human Rights Council on Abuse of Human Rights Defenders Status

The Amuta for NGO Responsibility submitted a written statement to the Human Rights Council, demonstrating how the OHCHR and rapporteurs operating under special procedures mandates have failed to ensure adherence to the definition of a human rights defender, abusing the term and giving the impression of a UN imprimatur on individuals that promote incitement, violence, discrimination, and virulent antisemitism.

Topics

• BDS
• Manal Tamimi
• UN Human Rights Council (HRC)
• United Nations

Submission of the Institute for NGO Research Position Paper Regarding the Preparation of a Discriminatory Blacklist Pursuant to UNHRC Resolution 31/36

The Institute for NGO Research, an NGO in Special Consultative with ECOSOC, submitted the following information to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in advance of its preparation of a discriminatory blacklist aimed at entities doing business over the 1949 Armistice Lines, pursuant to UN Human Rights Council Resolution 31/36.

Topics

• Distortions of International Law
• International Law
• UN BDS Blacklist
• UN Human Rights Council (HRC)
• United Nations

NGO Monitor Submission to the UN Human Rights Council Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza Conflict

Topics

• 2014 Gaza War
• Collective Punishment
• Commission of Inquiry
• Distortions of International Law
• Double Standards
• Fact Finding Best Practices

• Hamas
• Human Shields
• International Law
• Ken Roth
• Lawfare
• Lund-London Guidelines

• Sarah Leah Whitson
• Transparency
• UN Human Rights Council (HRC)
• War crimes
• Weapons Smuggling
• William Schabas

Submission of the Amuta for NGO Responsibility to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights for the Study of Domestic Law Remedies for Corporate Involvement in Gross Human Rights Abuses

Topics

• Human Rights Law
• Lawfare
• UN Human Rights Council (HRC)
• Universal Jurisdiction

Submission to the Human Rights Council Review Open-Ended Working Group

NGO Monitor has prepared this submission as part of the Review of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) for the Open-Ended Working Group (Working Group), in order to support the HRC review process.

Topics

• Antisemitism
• Fact-finding Standards
• Goldstone Report
• Lack of Transparency

• Lund-London Guidelines
• UN Human Rights Council (HRC)
• Universal Periodic Review (UPR)

NGO Monitors Submission to the Human Rights Council Inquiry on the Gaza War, Led by Judge Richard Goldstone

Mandated by the UN Human Rights Council, Judge Richard Goldstone is conducting an investigation, including a fact-finding mission to Gaza and public hearings, on alleged war crimes violations by Israel during the Gaza War. NGO Monitors submission details NGO abuses of international law including distortions and demonization by PCHR, HRW, Amnesty, and Al Mezan, and lawfare campaigns and urges his commission to carefully examine the credibility and biases in NGO claims. Tendentious NGO reports influenced the inquiries of the Arab League and the UN Secretary General.

Topics

• 2009 Gaza War
• Goldstone Report
• International Law
• Lawfare
• UN Human Rights Council (HRC)

NGO Monitors Submission to the United Nations Human Rights Council Universal Periodic Review Israel December 2008

In anticipation of the United Nations Human Rights Councils Universal Periodic Review of Israel, scheduled for December 2008, NGO Monitor prepared a submission highlighting problematic NGO activity vis--vis human rights in Israel.

Topics

• International Humanitarian Law
• Right to Life
• Right to Self Defense
• Right to Self Determination
• UN Human Rights Council (HRC)

• Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)
• Universal Human Rights
• Universal Periodic Review (UPR)
• UPR