Amnesty International Is Weaponizing Human Rights For The U.S., NATO

Just as it has done in the case of Venezuela, on Nicaragua, Amnesty International misrepresents the facts, cynically promoting the positions of the country’s right wing political opposition

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Nicaragua’s current Sandinista government has been the most successful ever in reducing poverty and defending the right of all Nicaraguans to a dignified life. Over the last year, in Latin America, Amnesty International has taken their collusion in support of NATO government foreign policy down to new depths of falsehood and bad faith,

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Human Rights Watch Rated Among Least Transparent Think Tanks In US

‘The number of organizations who still consider it acceptable to take money from hidden hands behind closed doors is rapidly dwindling,’ noted the executive director of an NGO studying think tank transparency.

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Kenneth Roth, Executive Director of Human Rights Watch, speaks during the annual press conference of the non governmental organization in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2014.

AUSTIN, Texas --- A nonprofit that studies global think tanks considers Human Rights Watch to be among the least transparent think tanks in the United States, at least in terms of its funding sources. According to Transparify, think tanks around the world are becoming more transparent about the sources of their funding and how they put that

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‘A Fig Leaf For The Occupation’: Israeli Human Rights Group Ends Cooperation With Israeli Military

“[T]he way in which the military law enforcement system functions precludes it … from achieving justice for the victims,” noted a report from B’Tselem, the human rights group which has ceased cooperating with Israeli military investigations into crimes committed by Israeli soldiers.

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Palestinian volunteers with the B'Tselem human rights organization learn how to use video cameras to document the actions of the IDF and Israeli settlers in the West Bank, in 2014.

JERUSALEM --- An Israeli NGO that protects the human rights of Palestinians announced last month that it would cease cooperating with the Israeli military in investigating soldiers’ crimes. Founded in 1989, B’Tselem is dedicated to “promoting a future where all Israelis and Palestinians will live in freedom and dignity.” One of the group’s

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White Helmets NGO: A “Rescue And Assist” Operation Under Guise Of Human Rights

The White Helmets is wholly funded, directed, and promoted by Western governments, intelligence agencies and Foundations for the purposes of assisting Western-backed terrorists in destroying secular Syria

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The women of the White Helmets , also known as the Syrian Civil Defence.

With the recent events surrounding hospital bombings (real and imagined) in Aleppo, growing attention is now being paid to the “human rights NGO” known as the White Helmets, a supposed Syrian organization that focuses on rescuing and providing medical care to injured civilians in Syria. According to the Western media, the White Helmets are knights

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Controversy You Can Bank On: British Co-op Bank Closing Pro-Palestine Groups’ Accounts

“Disrupting receipt of these donations will impede our work, even as arms flow unimpeded from Scotland to the Israeli army to commit what Amnesty [International] and others describe as crimes against humanity,” the treasurer of one pro-Palestine NGO tells MintPress.

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Co-op Bank claims the decision to close the account of a Pro-Palestinian NGO was standard practice for those operating in "high risk" environments, yet they targeted at least 25 other accounts all affiliated with Palestinian NGOs. (Photo: Twiter)

EDINBURGH --- Groups based in the United Kingdom which support human rights causes in the Occupied Palestinian Territories have expressed fears that U.S. hedge funds pressured a major bank into closing their accounts. The Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign, which campaigns for Palestinian rights while opposing Israel’s occupation of disputed

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UPDATE: Gag Order Lifted On Case Of Pro-Palestine Activists Caught In Israeli Right-Wing Sting

In an act of entrapment, members of a right-wing NGO recorded a left-wing activist making inflammatory comments about a made-up sale of Palestinian land to Israeli settlers.

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Guy ButGuy Butavia greeting supporters outside Jerusalem courtroom (Photo: Oren Ziv/Activestills)avia greeting supporters outside Jerusalem courtroom (photo credit: Oren Ziv Activestills)

SEATTLE (01/25/2016) --- Earlier this month, MintPress News reported on the sleazy tactics of Israel’s premier news magazine, “Uvdah,” which aired a segment smearing a leading Jewish human rights NGO that protects the rights of Palestinian farmers. Two spies from Ad Kan (“No More”), an astroturf settler group created largely for the purpose of

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