Swiss Parliament Calls for End to Government Funding for BDS NGOs
NGO Monitor welcomes today's vote in the Swiss Parliament calling on the government to cease funding groups that support BDS and antisemitism.
Funders: | Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law Secretariat: Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland, and the Netherlands |
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Start date: | 1 Jan 1988 |
End date: | 21 Jul 2017 |
NGO Monitor welcomes today's vote in the Swiss Parliament calling on the government to cease funding groups that support BDS and antisemitism.
Gerald Steinberg describes the important milestone reached in the passing of a Swiss motion that would cease governmental funding of NGOs that support BDS and antisemitism.
After NGO Monitor published a report on Swiss funding to the IHL Secretariat, Switerland seems to have updated its funding page to reflect the previous amount and date, seemingly rescinding the latest increase.
The Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) has denied requests from a Swiss resident and from NGO Monitor to provide public information about Swiss government funding to the Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law Secretariat (the IHL Secretariat), a Ramallah-based framework that distributes 56% of its budget to NGOs that advocate for BDS (boycott, divestment, and sanctions) campaigns against Israel.
Funding updates to the Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law Secretariat since November 2016.
Professor Steinberg describes the dismal state of human rights, highlighting the failures of the organizations that supposedly protect and defend these values.
An update of the recent activities of NGOs that receive core-funding from the IHL Secretariat.
An overview of Danish funding, directly and indirectly, to politicized NGOs active in the Arab-Israeli conflict.
An in-depth analysis of the Dutch Policy and Operations Evaluation Department Report.
An analysis of NGO ties to the PFLP, a designated terrorist organization, and the European funding to these NGOs.