This statement was delivered today by Sam Cohen of the Jewish Leadership Council to the Durban Review Conference:
Mr Chairman, I am making this statement on behalf of the Jewish Leadership Council as a member of the Jewish Human Rights Coalition - UK.
Some have suggested that this conference has been dominated by a particular set of [...]
Statement on behalf of a coalition of more than 10 international Jewish organisations including: Community Security Trust, World Jewish Congress, European Jewish Congress, Jewish Leadership Council, South African Board of Jewish Deputies, CEJI, World Union of Jewish Students, Board of Deputies of British Jews, Jewish Human Rights Coalition-UK, NGO Monitor, Women’s International Zionist Organization. European [...]
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 [...]
The piece below, by Jeremy Newmark, appears in the Jewish News:
On arrival at the Palais des Nations in Geneva for the Durban Review Conference (Durban II), colleagues from Jewish groups around the globe were rightly proud of the fact that, whatever the coming days would bring, the lessons of the original Durban debacle had been [...]
This piece, by Karen Pollock, oriinally appeared on the Progress website.
You could hardly escape seeing the President Ahmedinejad circus this week. Images of him with a young guy in a colourful wig were everywhere - TV, national and international newspapers, the blogosphere.
I saw those images too, but there, on the conference floor in the United [...]