Some say the action played into Ahmadinejad’s hands, but it was a necessary reminder that this forum is not a podium for hatred.
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As United Nations and NGO delegates pack their bags to leave Geneva, the city where 500 years ago Calvin arrived to preach his austere moralising version of Christianity which culminated [...]
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 [...]
To mark Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Jewish Communities of Geneva have organised a public commemorative ceremony for victims of the Holocaust.
The Jewish Human Rights Coalition (UK) is supporting and attending the event, and has also invited several UK NGOs that are attending the Durban Review Conference.
The ceremony will take place on the Place des Nations, [...]