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Human Rights Watch Under Fire From Its Founder

45caliber Wrote: Oct 21, 2009 2:30 PM
... about this organization. One thing I remember. It stated that the Human Rights Organization got all of its information from the different governments of the world. Therefore in democratic governments such as the United States, such human rights violations are noted and veiwable. In countries such as China and Cuba, there is no information.

BUT... they get all their information from the governments. So when they compile their information - since they got nothing from China or Cuba - these countries show no violations. But the U.S. gives everything - so we show to have hundreds of violations.

And the people in HRO will NOT challenge governments about their data unless they feel very safe - so they challenge the...

On Monday, the founder of the non-government organization Human Rights Watch issued a scathing editorial condemning the organization for its recent support of a U.N. resolution that accused Israel of war crimes.

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"HRW has lost critical perspective on a conflict in which Israel has been repeatedly attacked by Hamas and Hezbollah, organizations that go after Israeli citizens and use their own people as human shields," wrote Robert Bernstein, the chairman of Human Rights Watch from 1978 to 1998, in the New York Times.

His criticism echoes longtime critics of the...

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