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Hijacking
Human Rights
By Michael Barker
August 03, 2007 -Human Rights Watch (HRW) is one of the latter
such organizations, and as a highly regarded and influential international
nongovernmental organization (NGO), it is vital that its global
work be regularly examined to ensure that it remains true to it's
stated humanitarian mission. Simply put, this is because as Jonathan
Cook writes: "The measure of a human rights organisation is to
be found not just in the strides it takes to seek justice for
the oppressed and victimised but also in the compromises it makes
to keep itself out of trouble. Because of the business that human
rights defenders are in, they must be held to a standard higher
than we demand of others."[2] -Full
Story- (zmag.org)
Human
Rights Watch as a Political Instrument of Liberal Cosmopolitan
Elite of the United States of America
Co-operation of Russian and western human rights activists depends
not only on their professional solidarity but on their ideological
closeness of interests, sometimes - closeness of their goals.
-Full
Report-(pravoslavie.ru-19/11/04)
O'Reilly
smeared "very shadowy" Human Rights Watch
FOX News Channel and radio host Bill O'Reilly called the group Human Rights
Watch (HRW) "very shadowy" and claimed that "they don't tell you where
their money comes from" because the group "knows how they're perceived
by most Americans." In fact, HRW's website freely discloses its donors.
Later, O'Reilly's guest from the conservative Heritage Foundation complained
that HRW has focused narrowly on "Abu Ghraib, Abu Ghraib, Abu Ghraib"
(prison in Iraq) and "Gitmo, Gitmo, Gitmo" (Guantánamo Bay, Cuba), where
Americans have been accused of abuses, rather than "using their scarce
resources to really shine the light on these places around the world where
there truly are human rights abuses" like China, Syria, and Sudan. In
fact, Human Rights Watch does extensive research and advocacy on these
nations and scores of others. -Full
Report-(mediamatters.org-Fri,
Nov 19, 2004)
Who
is behind Human Rights Watch? (2004)
Under President Clinton, Human Rights Watch
was the most influential pro-intervention lobby: its 'anti-atrocity crusade'
helped drive the wars in ex-Yugoslavia. Under George W. Bush it lost influence
to the neoconservatives, who have their own crusades. But the 'two interventionisms'
are not so different anyway: Human Rights Watch is founded on belief in
the superiority of American values. It has close links to the US foreign
policy elite, and to other interventionist and expansionist lobbies. .-Full
Report-(web.inter.nl.net-).-Full
Report-(forfolksake.com-29/08/08)
Why
human rights are wrong
Paul
Treanor,
Human rights conflict with the principle of
moral autonomy, and form an excuse for oppression. Any harm to others
can be justified by claiming that it is intended to respect certain 'rights',
even if the victim does not know of their existence. Revised June 2004. -Full
Report-(web.inter.nl.net-)
I
renounce my human rights
Paul Treanor, 7 September 1999
The first online renunciation of human rights by an individual, written
in the immediate aftermath of the Kosovo war. Since then, the crusade
in the name of such liberal ideologies has intensified. The supporters
of human rights believe that they are morally entitled to conquer the
world - and they have begun to do so. .-Full
Report-(web.inter.nl.net-) |
