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This newsletter informs about recent and upcoming activities of Civil Society Organizations affiliated with the 麻豆APP Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People. The Committee and the Division for Palestinian Rights of the UN Secretariat provide the information “as is” without warranty of any kind, and do not accept any responsibility or liability for the accuracy, or reliability of the information contained in the websites linked in the newsletter.

NGO Action News
04? November 2013

AFRICA

• ?endorsed on?27 October 2013?an??for the?Freedom of Marwan Barghouthi and All Palestinian Political Prisoners.Archbishop Emeritus Desmond?Tutu?also??his support to the campaign.

EUROPE

• , the?,?the?,??and? are organizing a public meeting with?Noura Erekat?(Beasley School of Law, human rights attorney and activist) and?Leila Farsakh (Palestinian political economist, Associate Professor of Political Science at University of Massachusetts Boston) on?7 November 2013?at the Café Monk in Brussels. Event starts at 7.00pm. Space limited.

• ?is organizing several different? throughout the month of?November 2013.

• ?is organizing a? in Edinburgh on?9 November 2013.?William Parry, MAP’s Communications and Media Officer, will take part in the event.

• ?recorded on?24 October 2013?an exclusive? about Palestine with the British director?Ken Loach.

• ?is hosting on?15 November 2013?in Brussels a??with?Marianne Blume?(ABP member) who will talk about her recent visits to the Gaza Strip.

MIDDLE EAST

• ?published on?31 October 2013?their latest??Where Law Stands on The Wall, focusing on the on-going construction of Israel’s barrier in the West Bank.

NORTH AMERICA

• ?issued a??on?29 October 2013?about their musical protest against the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in New York. Photos of the event are available?.

• ?released on?28 October 2013?a??song. You can listen to the performance?.

• ?is organizing a? in front of London Drugs in Vancouver on?3 November 2013?to ask the store to stop selling SodaStream products. This demonstration is part of the Canada-wide SodaStream boycott campaign of the Canadian Boycott Coalition.

• ?is organizing an??at the Friends Meeting House in Brooklyn on?6 November 2013?with?Professor Rashid Khalidi?who will be speaking about his new book,?.

• ?is running a campaign to support the current peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians. Find out more?.

• ?is presenting the? taking place in New York City from?14 to 21 November 2013.

• ,??and??are hosting a??of the film?The Other Son by?Lorraine Lévy?at the ICC Auditorium of the Georgetown University on?6 November 2013.

• ?and??have 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??We need the courage to do away with existing institutions, policies, and paradigms?has been published on 30 October 2013.

• ?is??the documentary? on?11 November 2013. JVP Boston’s Organizer, Liza Behrendt, will describe the work done in the Boston area on divestment after the screening.

• ?organized a? in San Francisco on?3 November 2013?with?Dr. Hanan Ashrawi?(PLO member).

• ?issued a? on?29 October 2013?stating that Veolia Water North America withdrew itself from consideration for a contract to consult with the St. Louis Water Division, following almost a year of public protest of the corporation over, among other things, its complicity in Israeli violations of Palestinian human rights.

• ?calls on its supporters to? against the arrest of Palestinian community leader?Rasmea Odeh?on?22 October 2013?over immigration fraud charges.

• ?presented on?30 October 2013?its new??featuring a discussion with?Charlotte Kates?from the Vancouver-based?.

ISRAEL AND PALESTINE

• ?and the??presented a?,?Families Interrupted, on 23 October 2013. The exhibition explores the devastating effects of Israel’s ban on family reunification on Palestinian families.

• ?issued on?31 October 2013?a??entitled?Settler Violence Continues Across the West Bank

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

• ?released on?24 October 2013?a new? on Palestine’s UNESCO Membership.

• ?will go on a month-long??(West Coast) starting?12 November 2013?in Tacoma, WA, to present?. Yehuda Shaul, Co-founder and Co-director of Breaking The Silence, will take part in the tour.

• ?is organizing the? from?21 October to 7 November 2013?in different Palestinian cities.

• ?released on?31 October 2013?its weekly? covering the period from 24 to 30 October 2013.

• 20 Palestinian organizations as well as individuals?released on?21 October 2013?a??calling on the PLO and Palestinian Government to halt all forms of cooperation with the World Bank-sponsored Red Sea – Dead Sea Conveyance Project (RSDSCP) and to take an unequivocal public stance of rejection to the project.

GLOBAL

• ?published a new series of??entitled?Why Israeli Settlements Expand More During Peace Talks?

• ?called on the IDF, in an??published on?27 October 2013, to stop harassing members of?, a rights group that provides legal services and advocates for the rights of Palestinians in detention. HRW reported that the Israeli military imposed severe restrictions and penalties on Addameer’s staff, either without even alleging any violent activity, or without due process.

UNITED NATIONS

• ?released on?31 October 2013?its latest??covering the period from 22 to 28 October 2013. The September issue of their? was published on?30 October 2013.

• ,?Professor Richard Falk, presented its latest? to the General Assembly in New York on?30 October 2013. The report bears a particular emphasis on corporate responsibility in international crimes related to Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory.

• The 麻豆APP Humanitarian Coordinator,?Mr. James W. Rawley,??on?1 November 2013?for urgent action to address the power crisis affecting the 1.7 million Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip.