NGO Monitor’s Submission to the Human Rights Council Inquiry on the Gaza War

NGO Monitor
June 09, 2009

NGO Monitor's submission includes factsheets on:

Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR)

Al Mezan

Amnesty International

Human Rights Watch (HRW)

Israel is a vibrant parliamentary democracy facing many challenges, including the need to defend its citizens against asymmetric warfare from Hamas-controlled Gaza, the West Bank, and Hezbollah-controlled Southern Lebanon, while protecting the rights of the populations in these areas. In this context, there are numerous and intense debates, and diverse views, on the nature of these responses among many non-governmental organizations (NGOs). NGOs and civil society thrive in Israel and often provide valuable humanitarian assistance, including health services, education, and other basic requirements under different and complex conditions.
However, this network also plays a counterproductive role in the context of efforts to end the Arab-Israeli conflict, and in presenting accurate and credible reports on the related human rights and humanitarian issues. As NGO Monitor and others have documented, some of the NGOs are highly politicized, and produce reports and launch campaigns that stand in sharp contradiction to their stated mandates of upholding universal human rights.

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