麻豆APP

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NGO Action News
02 December 2013

EUROPE

• ?is organizing its??in Brussels on?5 December 2013. It will be dedicated to the life and experiences of young Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. The short documentary?Not a dreamland: artists and alternative subcultures in Gaza (Anne Paq and ActiveStills crew of photographers documenting the occupation) will be presented. A discussion with?Rania Kharma?(Palestinian student),?Inge Neefs?(Belgian activist) and?Anne Paq?(ActiveStills) will follow the screening.

• ?issued a? on?28 November 2013?urging the British Government to push towards a resolution to the dire humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip.

• ,??and??are organizing a? with Palestinian doctor and author?Ghada Karmi?and Israeli historian?Ilan Pappé?on?2 December 2013?in Cambridge.

• ?is currently hosting the??Palestine, terre de non-Droits de l’homme at the Rectorat of the Campus du Limpertsberg in Luxembourg until?12 December 2012.

• ?(ECCP)and??(ICAHD) issued a? on?29 November 2013?focusing on the recent demolitions and announcement of more Israeli settlement units in the West Bank.

• ?hosted on?29 November 2013?an? exploring how Palestinians and internationals use art as a method of both cultural and political resistance to the Israeli occupation, apartheid and colonialism. The renowned Irish artist and political activist,?Robert Ballagh, took part in the activity.

• ?is hosting on?5 December 2013?the London??paper by the??(LPHA) entitled?The health of Palestinians inside and outside the occupied Palestinian territory.

• ?is organizing the??Reporting Palestine – bias in the BBC? on?5 December 2013?in London. Former BBC correspondent in the Gaza Strip,James Rodgers?and?Amena Saleem, journalist and activist, will take part in the event.

• ,??(School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London) and the??are hosting on?13 December 2013?at SOAS eminent feminist scholar-activists?Angela Davis?and?Gina Dent?for a? on Justice for Palestine and the Stop G4S campaign.

NORTH AMERICA

• ?will hold its 7th?annual??on 14 December 2013 in front of Lev Leviev’s jewellery store in NYC. This event is to protest against Mr. Leviev’s companies’ involvement with on-going Israeli settlement construction and expansion in Palestine.

• ,?, and??are organizing a? against SodaStream on?7 December 2013.

• ,?,??and??are hosting on?6 December 2013?in Washington a??between?Akiva Eldar?(Senior political columnist, Al-Monitor news site’s Israel Pulse) and?Ori Nir?(Americans for Peace Now) under the title?Israel and Palestine: What’s Next?

• ?and??put together a??to mark the 20 years since the signature of the Oslo Accords, entitled?What Comes Next?: A forum on the end of the two-State paradigm, investigating the current state of thinking about one-State and two-State solutions. Their latest??The struggle we are fighting for is the right to assert what our life will look like?by Frank Barat (Russell Tribunal), Leila Farsakh (Palestinian economist) and Noura Erakat (adjunct professor at Georgetown University) has been published on 27 November 2013.

• ?is organizing its? in Berkeley on?7 and 8 December 2013, featuring handmade products by a Bedouin women’s cooperative in the West Bank, pottery from Hebron, and ceramic Handala cartoon character magnets.

• ?is inviting its members and supporters to hold acts of public witness on?3 December 2013?in Vancouver at the London Drugs retail stores (Granville and Georgia) from noon to highlight the need for a just peace in the Holy Land. This activity takes place within the United Church campaign?.

• ?is calling on supporters to help in their?. Demonstrations against SodaStream (see list of activities?) are being planned to focus on Target retail stores and will be held from?2 December?to?10 December 2013. As well, the Campaign launched a? on?26 November 2013?to ask Bartell Drugs in Seattle to stop selling SodaStream products.

• ?presented on?26 November 2013?a new??with the human rights activist?Eva Bartlett?discussing the situation in the Gaza Strip.

ISRAEL AND PALESTINE

• ?will organize its? from?22 to 27 December 2013.

• , in conjunction with?,,?,?and??is hosting on?3 December 2013?in Geneva a??entitled?Addressing Justice, Due Diligence and Access to Remedy in the Context of Extractive Industries: Cases in the Philippines, Mozambique, southern Africa, Palestine and Thailand.

• , on?28 November 2013, released its weekly??covering the period from 21 November to 27 November 2013. PCHR also published on?26 November 2013?the??of its kind, entitled?Through Women’s Eye. The report focuses on the gender-specific implications and consequences of the 2012 Israeli “Operation Pillar of Defense” on the Gaza Strip.

• ,?,??and??issued a? on?27 November 2013?calling for an immediate end of the suffering of the people in the Gaza Strip caused by the regular electricity outages.

• ?will hold a?Conference on Negotiations: Prospects and Challenges on?5 December 2013?at the Grand Park Hotel in Ramallah.

GLOBAL

• ?have been presented on?2 December 2013.?Raji Sourani?(PCHR), the first Palestinian to receive this award, took part in the official ceremony and delivered a??at the Swedish Parliament.

UNITED NATIONS

• The Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP),??and??co-organized a special concert with Palestinian artists on?25 November 2013?in the ECOSOC Chamber to mark?the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People?(29 November).?Nai Barghouti?(singer-songwriter) and?Mohammad Assaf?(2013 Arab Idol and UNRWA Youth Ambassador) performed on stage and attracted an enthusiastic audience of 500+ delegates, UN staff and NGO representatives. Watch the full concert?.

• ?adopted on?26 November 2013? under the agenda item “Question of Palestine”. By the resolution on the CEIRPP,?the Assembly proclaimed 2014 the International Year of Solidarity with the Palestinian People?and requested the Committee to organize activities around that observance, in cooperation with Governments, the UN system, IGOs and NGOs. The text was adopted by recorded vote of 110 in favour to 7 against (Australia, Canada, Micronesia, Israel, Marshall Islands, Palau, US), with 56 abstentions.

• The International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People?was observed on?25 November 2013?in New York under the auspices of the?Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People. Please click??for a comprehensive list of speakers and? for a summary of the event.

• ?released its??on?29 November 2013?and its monthly? on?27 November 2013.

• ?unveiled on?28 November 2013?the first part of its?, which consists of over half a million negatives, prints, slides, films and videocassettes covering all aspects of the life and history of Palestine refugees from 1948 to the present day.