NGOs' dilemmas

Middle East Report

Volumn , Issue 214, 2000, Pages 34-37

  Pitner, Julia ^a  

^a M East N Africa Search Com G   (United States)

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CIVIL SOCIETY; NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION;

EID: 0034119330     PISSN: 08992851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1520193     Document Type: Article

References (4)

1. "Al Murr places his hand on the file for human rights organizations: The Central Security Council plans for security confusion," An-Nahar, January 8, 1997, p.7.
2. See, for example, Dr. Mohammed El-Sayed Said, "Phantom of the foreigner reigns over debates concerning private associations," Sawasiah 23-24 (1998), p. 6, published by the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies; "Foreign Support for Human Rights," interviews with governmental and non-governmental representatives, Noshataa, 9-8 (March 1999), pp. 4-5, published by the Arab Program for Human Rights Activists.
3. See, for example, Dr. Mohammed El-Sayed Said, "Phantom of the foreigner reigns over debates concerning private associations," Sawasiah 23-24 (1998), p. 6, published by the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies; "Foreign Support for Human Rights," interviews with governmental and non-governmental representatives, Noshataa, 9-8 (March 1999), pp. 4-5, published by the Arab Program for Human Rights Activists.
4. A recent, and blatant, example of this trend was the condemnation of the Jerusalem-based Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group (PHRMG) by a previously unknown organization, "The Committee to Fight Corruption," on the grounds that PHRMG was working hand in glove with Israeli intelligence agencies to undermine important Palestinian national figures, and that PHRMG Director Bassam Eid "has strong and warm relations with the Jews and the foreigners, especially after working with them in B'Tselem, a center for the Israeli Mossad." Letters sent to PHRMG by this shadowy organization urged staff members to resign lest their names, too, be blackened before the public. (PHRMG press release, February 9, 2000.)