14Jul 2014 by peacepeople

Press Release

Campaigns, Israel/Palestine
MAIREAD CORRIGAN MAGUIRE CALLS UPON BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION AND mainstream western media, to end bias against Palestinians and their lack of impartiality against Palestinians and in their reporting of Middle East conflicts. She called on the BBC, and world media to give factual, fair and balanced reporting in order that people can be informed and not continue to be subjected to Israeli propaganda. Maguire also called for an immediate ceasefire and dialogue as the only way forward. Maguire said: ‘Last week, under the false pretence of self-defence, Israel launched yet another deadly massive military attack on Gaza. (No Israeli people have been killed by rockets from Gaza, which I believe should stop). Israeli attacks have killed 160 people of which at least 26 have been children and another l, 000…
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09Jul 2014 by peacepeople

Nobel Peace Laureates encourage cooling-off policy for HRW associates & urge removal of ex-NATO head Javier Solana from HRW board

Syria
While we welcome your stated commitment to Human Rights Watch's independence and credibility, we are dismayed by your rejection of our common-sense suggestion for strengthening them: bar those who have crafted or executed U.S. foreign policy from serving as HRW staff, advisors or board members—or, at a bare minimum, mandate lengthy “cooling-off” periods before and after any associate moves between HRW and the foreign-policy divisions of the U.S. government. Before addressing your letter’s objections to the three instances of HRW’s advocacy that suggest a conflict of interest, we would like to reiterate that they were “limited to only recent history,” and that other cases could have been raised as well. One obvious example of HRW's failure to appropriately criticize U.S. crimes occurred after the 2004 coup d’état against the democratically…
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02Jul 2014 by peacepeople

Campaigning on Mordechai Vanunu

Campaigns
Please support the campaign to to lift Mordechai Vanunu's travel ban. http://www.frontlineclub.com/protecting-whistleblowers/ Please also sign the petition to the Israeli Minister of Interior urging him to lift the travel ban against Vanunu. https://campaigns.amnesty.org/actions/whistleblower-protection
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25Jun 2014 by peacepeople

Press Release

Press Releases
MAIREAD MAGUIRE, NOBEL PEACE LAUREATE, ATTENDS AS DEFENCE WITNESS TRIAL OF MARGARETTA D’ARCY, ENNIS COURT, IRELAND 24th JUNE, 2014. I have attended the trial of Margaretta D’Arcy, in order to show solidarity with this brave woman of peace, and I join her in her call for an end to the ongoing United States military use of Shannon Airport. Margaretta D’Arcy has been charged with ‘Interfering with the proper use of Shannon Airport on lst September, 2013.’ This was the time when it looked like the United States was going to attack Syria and had this happened it would have meant the Irish Government would )have co-operated and been complicit in the bombing of Syria. Margaretta D’Arcy as an act of conscience took these NECESSARY steps of sitting on the runway…
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