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· U.N. Women’s Groups Accused of Boosting Hamas Massacre Deniers
Campaigners say the UN top women’s groups have failed to recognize the rape and gender-based violence on Oct. 7, aiding those who want to downplay the Hamas massacre
· Canadian University Fires Head of Sexual Assault Center Who Signed Letter Denying Oct. 7 Rapes
The letter slammed center-left New Democratic Party leader Jagmeet Singh for repeating “the unverified accusation that Palestinians were guilty of sexual violence”
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U.N. Women’s Groups Accused of Boosting Hamas Massacre Deniers (Gitit Ginat, Daily Beast)
Prominent human rights campaigners in Israel say the most important women’s organizations within the United Nations have failed to give proper recognition to the massacre and mass rape carried out by Hamas on Oct. 7.
The UN Women statement from Oct. 13, failed to mention any of the atrocities and the U.N.’s Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) talked amorphically about “the gendered dimensions of conflict” without laying out the brutality inflicted on women during the horrific attack.
“The silence of the international human rights and women’s rights community is deafening,” Professor Ruth Halperin-Kaddari, a former vice president of CEDAW, told The Daily Beast. “For those of us who believe in the power of international human rights institutions and in solidarity between women, it is a particularly devastating blow. The betrayal is not only to the victims of sexual abuse, but to the very integrity of the institutions.”
The reticence to comment on the specific atrocities in Israel and horrific gender-based violence in contrasts with UN Women and CEDAW’s history of speaking out in defense of women all over the rest of the world.
Canadian University Fires Head of Sexual Assault Center Who Signed Letter Denying Oct. 7 Rapes (Times of Israel)
The University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada indicates in a statement that it fired the head of the campus sexual assault center who had signed onto an open letter denying Hamas-led terrorists raped women during their devastating October 7 onslaught in southern Israel.
Samantha Pearson signed the letter, titled “Stand with Palestine: Call on Political Leaders to End Their Complicity in Genocide,” which slammed center-left New Democratic Party leader Jagmeet Singh for repeating “the unverified accusation that Palestinians were guilty of sexual violence,” among other critiques of the lawmaker on the issue.
