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kekasih 30.04.12 - 10:34am
Published 00:48 30.04.12Latest update 00:48 30.04.12---Israel joins UN list of states limiting human rights organizations--- http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/diplomania/israel-joins-un-list-of-states-limiting-human-rights-organizations-1.427184 * +

kekasih 30.04.12 - 10:37am
UN Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay lists Israel along with countries such as Belarus, Zimbabwe, Egypt, Ethiopia and Venezuela. * +

kekasih 30.04.12 - 10:37am
A senior UN official in Geneva last week listed Israel among the countries that she says are restricting the activities of human rights groups. * +

kekasih 30.04.12 - 10:38am
The statement, issued on Wednesday by UN Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay, lists Israel along with countries such as Belarus, Zimbabwe, Egypt, Ethiopia and Venezuela. * +

kekasih 30.04.12 - 10:39am
Israel was named due to the bill approved by the Ministerial Committee on Legislation six months ago to restrict funding by foreign governments to nonprofit organizations. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu supported the bill throughout most of its formulation. However, he ordered it frozen after Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein said such a law would be struck down by the High Court of Justice. * +

kekasih 30.04.12 - 10:40am
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kekasih 30.04.12 - 10:41am
Although the law never reached the Knesset, Pillay said in her statement: ''In Israel, the recently adopted Foreign Funding Law could have a major impact on human rights organizations, subjecting them to rigorous reporting requirements, forcing them to declare foreign financial support in all public communications, and threatening heavy penalties for non-compliance.'' * +

kekasih 30.04.12 - 10:43am
Israel is the only democratic country listed in Pillay's statement. The others are all dictatorships or developing countries. Among them is Ethiopia, where human rights groups have been shut down by a law prohibiting foreign funding in excess of 10 percent of a group's budget. She also lists Cambodia, where a law is being promoted that would shutter NGOs whose work is found to 'harm national unity, culture, customs and traditions of the Cambodian national society.'' In Belarus, which * +

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