Table of Contents:

• Special Edition: 5 October 2004 "UN Conference Abuses NGOs and "Civil Society" to Promote Anti-Israel Agenda"
• Special Edition: 27 September 2004 "The Association for the Defence of the Rights of the Internally Displaced (Adrid) – The Body Shop’s Role in Exploiting Human Rights"
• MADRE – Ford Funded NGO Leads Demonization of Israel
• Correspondence with AI
• AI & Christian Aid: Restoring a Human Rights Agenda?
• The Political Agenda of Palestinian "Environmental" NGO’s
• Additional NGO Monitor Notes and Links

Special Edition: 5 October 2004 "UN Conference Abuses NGOs and "Civil Society" to Promote Anti-Israel Agenda"

In September 2004, the UN convened the "International Conference of Civil Society in Support of the Palestinian People". This gathering represents the antithesis of civil society with workshops promoting an anti-Israel agenda, thus further discrediting the UN and NGO participants.
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Special Edition: 27 September 2004 "The Association for the Defence of the Rights of the Internally Displaced (Adrid) – The Body Shop’s Role in Exploiting Human Rights"

The Association for the Defence of the Rights of the Internally Displaced (ADRID) uses the veneer of human rights to promote an anti-Israel politicized agenda, assisted by the international cosmetics chain The Body Shop, which awarded ADRID its "Human Rights Award".
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MADRE – Ford Funded NGO Leads Demonization of Israel

A participant at Durban and recipient of Ford Foundation funding, this NGO has engaged in anti-Israel activities, carrying out a politicized agenda under the guise of women’s rights.
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Correspondence with AI

NGO Monitor and the Chair of Amnesty’s Israel Section engage in a two part correspondence in response to NGO Monitor’s analyses of Sudan and Amnesty’s 2004 Annual Report.
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AI & Christian Aid: Restoring a Human Rights Agenda?

Recent evidence indicates that NGO Monitor analyses are having an important impact on the activities of these two organizations who have issued statements that seem to presage a reduced emphasis on overtly political positions, and a return to core human rights issues.
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The Political Agenda of Palestinian "Environmental" NGO’s

Evidence indicates that Palestinian NGOs are using ecological issues primarily as a pretext for anti-Israel political and ideological objectives while making little substantive effort to carry out policies to improve the region’s environment.
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Additional NGO Monitor Notes and Links

NGO Monitor Special Editions

• Asleep at the Wheel: Comparing the Performance of Human Rights NGO’s on Sudan and Arab-Israeli Issues
  Summary: This article analyzes human rights NGO activity on Sudan prior to January 2003 and after, compared to the Israeli-Palestinian focus, and demonstrates the belated recognition of the tragedy in Sudan.
  Date: August 26, 2004

Op-Eds

• Gerald M. Steinberg & Simon Plosker, "September Letter from NGO Monitor," in response to "From Durban to Beersheba," The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, September 3, 2004.
• Abraham Cooper and Harold Brackman, "From Durban to Beersheba," The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, September 3, 2004.
• Hillel C. Neuer, "The UN’s Food Politics," National Post (Canada), September 6, 2004.
• Gerald M. Steinberg, "Abusing ‘Apartheid’ for the Palestinian Cause," Jerusalem Post, August 24, 2004.

Correspondence

• Part 1: Exchange of Correspondence with Aharon Eviatar, Chair, Israel Section, Amnesty International, in response to NGO Monitor 2:10 – Amnesty International Update – 2004 Annual Report
  Date: June/September 2004
• Part 2: Exchange of Correspondence with Aharon Eviatar, Chair, Israel Section, Amnesty International, in response to NGO Monitor’s analysis on Sudan, 26 August, 2004
  Date: August/September 2004

NGO Monitor News Reports

• "Swedish State Agency Subsidizes Gothenburg Terror Conference," LiveJournal, September 10, 2004.

The Legality of Israel’s Separation Barrier "Making the Israeli Case on the ICJ Advisory Opinion," Jerusalem Post, August 23, 2004. (Article no longer available)