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WJC head thanks Canadian minister for condemnation of Falk remarks NEW YORK, April 25, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Ronald S. Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress (WJC), strongly condemned an article by the special rapporteur of the United Nations Human Rights Council, Richard A. Falk, in which he blames the terrorist attacks at the Boston Marathon earlier this month on Israel and on American foreign policy. In an article titled "A Commentary on the Marathon Murders,"...

NEW YORK, April 23, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- AJC denounced Richard Falk, a UN official, for asserting in an online essay that U.S. and Israeli policies were responsible for the Boston Marathon terrorist bombings. UN Watch first reported on Falk's comments. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100816/AJCLOGO) Falk, a special rapporteur with the UN Human Rights Council, was reprimanded two years ago by UN Secretary-General Ban ki-Moon for promoting 9/11 conspiracy...

NEW YORK, March 26, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The World Jewish Congress condemned the adoption by the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) last week of five anti-Israel resolutions that undermine the chances of direct negotiations and a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians. In doing so, the UNHRC has diminished United Nations efforts at getting the talks back on track, a stated goal of the Quartet, of which the UN is a member. Among the deleterious...

NEW YORK, March 15, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The first session of the International Freedom Defense Congress, the operating body of the human rights organization Stop Islamization of Nations (SION), will be held in New York on September 11, 2012. The principal focus of the Congress will be a media workshop pertaining to Islamic supremacist attempts to restrict the freedom of speech in the free world, and the smear campaigns against freedom fighters in newspapers and media...

NEW YORK, March 1, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- AJC praised a new UN Human Rights Council resolution condemning Syria and calling on the regime to allow the delivery of humanitarian aid. The measure passed 37 to 3, with 3 abstentions. China, Russia and Cuba opposed. India, Ecuador and Philippines abstained. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100816/AJCLOGO) "The UN Human Rights Council again has delivered a strong message to the Assad regime," said AJC Executive...

NEW YORK, Dec. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- AJC praised the UN Human Rights Council for adopting a strong resolution today that endorsed the striking findings of a new investigative report on human rights conditions in Syria. (Logo: <font size="2" face="Arial">http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100816/AJCLOGO</font>) The report, prepared by an independent Commission of Inquiry established by the council, was released earlier this week. It concluded that the...

NEW YORK, Nov. 29, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- AJC urged the UN Security Council to convene soonest to adopt the strongest possible measures against Syria, following a damning report on Syria's egregious human right abuses. The report was released by a special Commission of Inquiry established by the UN Human Rights Council two months ago. (Logo: <font size="2" face="Arial">http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100816/AJCLOGO )</font> "This catalogue of grotesque...

WASHINGTON, April 29, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- AJC applauded the UN Human Rights Council's adoption of a strong resolution against Syria for human rights violations. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100816/AJCLOGO) "This is a historic day in the annals of the UN Human Rights Council," said AJC Executive Director David Harris. "We salute the Obama Administration for initiating the resolution on Syria and pressing for its adoption at an emergency session of the Council...

WASHINGTON, April 4, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) - along with its international affiliate, the European Centre for Law and Justice (ECLJ) - is calling on the United Nations to rescind a deeply flawed report accusing Israel of war crimes in a conflict in Gaza in 2009. The ACLJ, which presented arguments before the International Criminal Court (ICC) in support of Israel, says now that the author of the Goldstone Report, Judge Richard...

NEW YORK, April 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today reacted to an opinion article by Richard Goldstone in which he retracts the central findings of the Goldstone Commission Report, the product of a United Nations Human Rights Council-mandated investigation he led into Israel's 2009 Operation in Gaza. Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director issued the following statement: Richard Goldstone's astonishing article in The Washington Post saying he is now rescinding...