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The Framing of Political NGOs in Wikipedia through Criticism Elimination
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A Critique of the Goldstone Report and its Treatment of International Humanitarian Law
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Calculating Civilian Conflict Fatalities: A Demographic Analysis of Palestinian Conflict Fatalities during the al-Aqsa Intifada (29 September 2000 to 26 December 2008)



Comments on B’Tselem’s Civilian Casualty Estimates in Operation Cast Lead



Postcolonial Ideology, Political NGOs and the Arab-Israeli Conflict
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Guidelines on International Human Rights Fact-Finding Visits and Reports ("Lund-London Guidelines")



The Centrality of NGOs In Promoting Anti-Israel Boycotts And Sanctions
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"Human Rights and Politicized Human Rights: A Utilitarian Critique"
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The article provides a utilitarian analysis to argue that the leading organizations of the International Human Rights Movement have lost sight of their own professed values. Instead of functioning to check and balance the power of nation-states which formulate policies based on political and economic interests, the leadership of Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and the International Committee of the Red Cross follow the politicized United Nations. Their attention and resources have been diverted from where they are most needed and can do the most good. The problem is most evident in the disproportionate focus on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. There are serious problems of distributive justice, fairness, and equality of treatment, in that the obsessive, lopsided scrutiny placed on Israel is concomitant with the neglect of the far more horrific human rights violations in the Arab world and beyond.

Civil Society, Intercultural Dialogue and Political Activism: Rethinking EMP Policies
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The concept of "civil society" is central to the European political discourse, and this emphasis is reflected in the EMP-Barcelona Process. The EMP provides support for selected civil society organisations (CSOs) and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) among she Southern Mediterranean states. EMP activities involve NGOs in policy-making forums, economic development, intercultural dialogues, promotion of common values, human rights, and peace-making.

"Soft Powers Play Hardball"
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The campaign of terror that began in late 2000, following the collapse of
the Oslo peace process, was accompanied by a full-scale political
campaign, aimed at de-legitimizing and isolating Israel internationally. This strategy was articulated at the UN-sponsored World Conference against Racism and Xenophobia that took place in September 2001, in Durban, South Africa. The Durban conference crystallized the strategy of de-legitimizing Israel as ‘an apartheid regime’, through international isolation based on the South African model...



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