15 December 2005:
EMHRN Promotes Extremist NGOs
while Euro-Med Project Termed “Failure”
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EMHRN was established to “contribute to the protection and
promotion of the human rights principles embodied in the Barcelona
Declaration,” part of the 1995 Euro-Med framework “with
the overall objective of turning the Euro-Mediterranean basin into
an area of dialogue, exchange and co-operation guaranteeing peace,
stability and prosperity”.
As previous
NGO Monitor reports have documented, EMHRN is a major vehicle
for biased attacks against Israel by its extremist NGO partners
that exploit the rhetoric of universal human rights. This process
continued on December 7 with the European Parliament presentation
of the EMHRN report “Human Rights Review on the EU and Israel
– Mainstreaming or Selective Extinguishing of Human Rights?”
EMHRN invited representatives from Al-Haq,
Adalah
and the Public Committee Against Torture to Brussels to publicize
the review, originally published in May 2005 and analyzed in a previous
NGO Monitor report.
These activities not only damage European efforts to play a constructive
role in Israeli-Palestinian relations, but also highlight the crisis
in the Euro-Med project. EMHRN’s Brussels coordinator, Sandrine
Grenier referred to the EMP as a "failure", while her
organization is an important component of this program.
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