Recent Activities of NGOs Funded by the Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law Secretariat
A summary of the recent activities of NGOs that receive core funding from the Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law Secretariat.
Publications: | Reports, Books, Academic Publications, Submissions, Resource Pages |
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Other Content Types: | Press Releases, In The Media, Presentations, Posts, , Key Issues |
Funders: | Sweden |
Start date: | 1 Jan 1988 |
End date: | 17 Jul 2018 |
A summary of the recent activities of NGOs that receive core funding from the Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law Secretariat.
A number of known NGOs that advocate for BDS against Israel released a report calling on the French government to force French banks and insurance companies to “disengage without delay from any financial link with Israeli banks."
As shown by NGO Monitor research, a report published today by a coalition of French and Palestinian pro-BDS organizations that calls on the French government to “pressure” French financial institutions to divest from Israeli banks, communication, insurance, and utility companies, is funded by the Swedish government.
NGO Monitor's Shaun Sacks interviewed on Ledarsidorna.se TV in Sweden discussing Swedish funding to anti-Israel NGOs.
Funding updates to the Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law Secretariat since November 2016.
Lena Bakman explains how Norway's funding of the IHL Secretariat will in turn be used to support groups that promote BDS and other forms of demonization.
Anne Herzberg calls upon the UN and EU to commit to their claims of neutrality, and stop financing and promoting the whitewashing of Palestinian violence.
European government funding enables the activities of Israeli NGO Breaking the Silence. These governments must respond to revelations that the NGO apparently collected classified information.
On January 11, 2015, Israel’s leading nightly news program on Channel 2 aired footage of Ezra Nawi, a radical activist from the NGO “Ta’ayush,” visiting the offices of Israeli NGO Breaking the Silence, where he was provided with NIS 1,400 in cash.