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• Report: ‘Serious violations’ of human rights in Turkey

  
  AOI Observer — Authority: 516
  Here’s an introductory clip from Forum 18’s “TURKEY: Religious freedom survey, November 2009″:Ahead of the UN Human Rights Council May 2010 Universal Periodic Review of Turkey, Forum 18 News Service has found that the country continues to see serious violations of international human rights standards on ...
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• GA endorses HRC Report

  
  View from Geneva — Authority: 129
  On November 23, the General Assembly’s Third Committee adopted the Report of the Human Rights Council, introduced by Zambia for the African Group, and covering the period of March through May 2009.  Unlike last year’s resolution, which was approved by a vote of 117 in favor, 5 against and 55 abstaining, this ...
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• U.N. rights chief says criticism of Israel-bashing council is ‘propaganda’

  
  View from Geneva — Authority: 129
  Criticism of the U.N. human Rights Council’s problematic record — where there have been more condemnatory resolutions, special sessions and fact-finding missions against Israel than on the whole world combined — is “propaganda,” UN rights chief Navi Pillay told the Irish Times. The decision by the ...
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• When Pakistan announced the Palestinian situation is “not a human rights issue”

  
  View from Geneva — Authority: 129
  Only three years old, the wayward U.N. Human Rights Council is already the subject of a new international discussion on reform. When the 47-nation body was created by the U.N. General Assembly in March 2006, a review was called for after 5 years, in 2011. In advance, a group convened by France and Mexico (whose ...
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• GA condemns Burma, DPRK, Iran

  
  View from Geneva — Authority: 129
  On Thursday, November 19, the UN General Assembly’s Third Committee adopted a resolution that “strongly condemns the ongoing systematic violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms of the people of Myanmar,” with 92 countries voting in favor, 26 voting against, and 65 abstaining.  Sweden, ...
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• Israel bombs weapons factory, two tunnels in Gaza

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Tel Aviv, Nov 19 (DPA) The Israel Air Force attacked what the military said was a weapons factory and two smuggling tunnels in the southern Gaza Strip before dawn Thursday.Three civilians were injured in the bombings, Gaza emergency services chief Mo’aweya Hassanein said.The airstrikes on the two tunnels in the ...
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• Love of the Land: Judge Goldstone: I Participated in a Farce

  
  Rick's Caf American — Authority: 164
  Judge Goldstone: I Participated in a Farce Noah Pollak Contentions /Commentary 16 November 09 Richard Goldstone seems to use interviews to chip away at the legitimacy of his own work . He told the Forward that nothing he uncovered in Gaza is credible enough to be admissible in court. ...
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• The Muslim Militants of the Organization of the Islamic Conference Initiated the "Goldstone Report"

  
  Emet m'Tsiyon — Authority: 104
  The secretary-general of the Organization of the Islamic Conference boasts that his body started off the whole process of the Judeophobic Goldstone Report: " Ek meleddin Ihsanoglu: Let me first start by completing the story of the history of the Goldstone report. What I would like to put on record is that the ...
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• Brandeis: Richard Goldstone and Dore Gold discuss the UN Human Rights Council’s report on Operation Cast Lead

  
  PalCast — Authority: 128
  Justice Richard Goldstone and former Israeli ambassador to the United Nations Dore Gold engaged in a pointed, searching discussion of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in Gaza on Nov. 5, 2009 before a rapt audience of Brandeis University students, faculty, members of the general public, and international media. It was ...
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• Harare. 120 soldiers are being tortured.

  
  Times LIVE Blogs - Posts — Authority: 152
  This is horrific. Two weeks ago 12 soldiers were tortured to death by military intelligence, The Zimbabwean newspaper reports. The soldiers were accused of stealing guns and bombs from Pomona barracks. Today the Zimbabwe Times is reporting Major Maxwell Samudzi (48), another of the soldiers charged with the theft, ...
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• Love of the Land: The Right Way to Investigate Gaza

  
  Rick's Caf American — Authority: 164
  The Right Way to Investigate Gaza NATO Belgrade bombing campaign in 1999 Evelyn Gordon Contentions /Commentary 09 November 09 A group of South African immigrants to Israel submitted a novel proposal to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week. Netanyahu, they said, should accede to the ...
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• Love of the Land: Goldstone Gaza Report: Col. Richard Kemp Testifies at U.N. Emergency Session

  
  Rick's Caf American — Authority: 164
  Goldstone Gaza Report: Col. Richard Kemp Testifies at U.N. Emergency Session UN Watch Statement, delivered by Col. Richard Kemp, October 16, 2009, UN Human Rights Council Special Session on Goldstone Report (As Amb. Dore Gold chose to conclude the debate at Brandeis with Col. Richard Kemps words in place ...
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• Love of the Land: At Brandeis, Israels guilt and innocence on display

  
  Rick's Caf American — Authority: 164
  At Brandeis, Israels guilt and innocence on display Jeff Jacoby Boston Globe 07 November 09 TO BRANDEIS University last night, South African jurist Richard Goldstone brought his international reputation as a legal scholar, a human rights advocate, and the former chief prosecutor of the United Nations ...
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• Devout Muslim slaughters and wounds dozens of Americans, and what is our governments response?

  
  Amillennialist Contra Mundum | Verbum Domini Manet in aeternum — Authority: 119
  Protect Muslims . That would be like protecting Imperial Japanese pilots in America the week after Pearl Harbor. It is not enough that our politicians are bankrupting and disarming the nation. They work now with the Organization of the Islamic Conference, the United Nations, and the Department of Homeland Security ...
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• UNSG BAN says he will send the Goldstone report to Security Council ASAP

  
  UN-Truth — Authority: 126
  The AP’s indefatigable Edith Lederer has reported that “Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said yesterday he will send a report calling for Israel and the Palestinians to investigate alleged war crimes during last winter’s conflict in Gaza to the UN Security Council ‘as soon as possible’.” She added that ...
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• Love of the Land: Disfigured Terror Victim Confronts Goldstone in U.N. Debate

  
  Rick's Caf American — Authority: 164
  Disfigured Terror Victim Confronts Goldstone in U.N. Debate 04 November 09 U.N. Human Rights Council witnesses dramatic face-off when head of controversial UN "fact-finding" mission on Gaza unexpectedly confronted by one of his own witnesses. Dr. Mirela Siderer, an Israeli doctor brutally disfigured by a 2008 ...
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• Israel rejects UN’s endorsement of Gaza war report

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Jerusalem, Nov 6 (IANS) Tel Aviv Friday deplored a UN resolution backing the Goldstone report that investigated human rights violations during the brief war between Israeli forces and Islamic militants in the Gaza Strip early this year.The UN resolution suggests if either of the two sides fail to launch a credible ...
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• UN Rights Body Endorses Goldstone Report

  
  Qwaider Planet — Authority: 170
  Published Friday 16/10/2009 (updated) 23/10/2009 16:49Author of the report, Justice Richard Goldstone [MaanImages]Geneva – Ma’an – After listening to about 20 states and 30 nongovernmental Read More......( read more )
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• Hillary in Egypt to Mollify Angry Arabs, As UN Debates Goldstone

  
  Peacemakers — Authority: 116
  Associated Press TV reports on Hillary Clinton’s about-face on Israeli settlements. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in both a verbal and a physical about-face, paid an unplanned visit to Cairo today to consult Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on how to recover from her embarassing comments last weekend ...
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• Love of the Land: Britain and France continue dance of deception as Goldstone Report goes to UN General Assembly

  
  Rick's Caf American — Authority: 164
  Britain and France continue dance of deception as Goldstone Report goes to UN General Assembly Robin Shepherd Robin Shepherd Online 04 November 09 If you want a comparison that illustrates the difference between the United States and Europe on attitudes to Israel in particular and basic standards ...
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