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JHRC Strongly Condemns Iranian President’s Address to the Durban Review Conference

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Ahmadinejad Uses UN Platform for Antsemitic, Anti-Zionist & Anti-Western Attack
The Jewish Human Rights Coalition UK condemned yesterday’s speech by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the Durban Review Conference.
Ahmadinejad, speaking in his capacity as Head of State, used his platform to denigrate the Holocaust where he claimed “After World War II the Europeans made a [...]

JHRC at the UN Calls for Communities to Upgrade Co-operation against Racism and Discrimination

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“Side by Side: Tackling Racism Together”
Fringe Meeting at the Durban Review Conference

The Jewish Human Rights Coalition UK, along with UK Muslim activists and the Head of the British student movement, called yesterday for enhanced cooperation in combating racism at a fringe meeting during the Durban Review Conference in Geneva.
Over 200 senior NGO activists [...]

JHRC Calls on UK Government to Withdraw from Durban II in Light of Ahmadinejad Participation

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UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband held a series of telephone calls with representatives of the Jewish Human Rights Coalition (JHRC-UK) on the eve of the much-anticipated Durban Review Conference last Friday afternoon.
In three separate conversations, Henry Grunwald QC (President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews and Chairman of the Jewish Leadership [...]

Denis Macshane MP Urges Government to Withdraw from Durban II if Jews are Attacked

Miliband Urged to Remove UK from UN Conference if Attacks on Jews Are Made
Denis MacShane MP, former No 2 in the Foreign Office, has written to Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, to urge that Britain withdraws from a UN conference opening in Geneva tomorrow if Iran’s president Ahmadinejad and other governments use the event to increase [...]