麻豆APP

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NGO Action News
07 October 2013

ASIA

• ?held a meeting on?3 October 2013?featuring?Ghislain Poissonnier?(writer, former ICRC delegate) for a discussion on the Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice on the Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (2004). PSC Thailand is also still??for an honest US involvement in the current peace talks.

EUROPE

• ?and??held on?4 October 2013?a??at the University of Amsterdam, Faculty of law, with?Gavan Kelly?() on the status of political prisoners under international law and the current human right issues faced by Palestinian prisoners and the administrative detention procedure. Gavan Kelly was joined by?Shawan Jabarin?() for another? organized in The Hague on?3 October 2013.

• ?is organizing a conference on the blockade of the Gaza Strip on?11 October 2013?in Bonnevoie, Luxembourg.?Marianne Blume?() will take part in the event.

• ?will host the? in Dublin at the Break for the Border on?10 October 2013?to raise money for Palestinian students.

• ?updated as of?26 September 2013?its?.

• ,?which offers an award known as “the Alternative Nobel Prize,”??to lawyer?Raji Sourani, Director of the??and three other outstanding individuals. The Award will be presented at a ceremony in the Swedish Parliament on?2 December 2013?to Raji Sourani and the three other Laureates.

NORTH AMERICA

• ?and??are organizing a? on?13 October 2013?at the annual convention of the University of Arizona’s Middle East Studies Association, in New Orleans. The panellists will include Al-Shabaka Program Director?Alaa Tartir, Al-Shabaka Advisor?Osamah Khalil, and the author?Mandy Turner.

• ?published on?25 September 2013?a??entitled?A closer look: U.S. aid to Israel and the Palestinian Authority.

• ?will celebrate its 10th?Anniversary at its? taking place in Washington on?29 October 2013.

• ?organized a??on?29 September 2013?against the Jewish National Fund which hosted Gilad Shalit (former Israeli soldier) in his first visit to Canada. As well, together with?, CPA organized another? against the Vancouver visit of Israeli politician Ehud Barak.

• ?is presenting on?30 October 2013?the event??at the Columbia University Low Library Rotunda.?Renowned scholars?Judith Butler?and?Cornel West?will take part in the event. RSVP?.

• ?will make a presentation on?Grave Violations Against Palestinian Children in the Occupied Territories?at the UN Church Centre in New York on?11 October 2013. For more information and RSVP please contact:?Mark.Koenig@pcusa.org. This event is sponsored by the Israel-Palestine NGO Working Group at the UN.

• ?is hosting on?10 October 2013?in Washington the event?. The latter will feature ANERA’s Country Directors from Lebanon and West Bank/Gaza,?Paul Butler?and?Samar El Yassir. FMEP also released on?2 October 2013?its new? on Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory.

• ?is organizing a??entitled?Militarization, Domestic Spying, and the Boycott of Israel on?23 October 2013?in New York. Scheduled speakers are?David Swanson?(RootsAction),?Fahd Ahmen?(Desis Rising Up and Moving – DRUM),?Riham Barghouti?(Adalah-NY) and?Anna Calcutt?(NYACT).

• ?is hosting the event?Big Data, Social Media and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: What online activities can tell us about offline realities?on?9 October 2013.Samer Makhlouf?and?Tal Harris, Executive Directors of OneVoice Palestine and OneVoice Israel, and Gilad Lotan (Betaworks) will take part in a panel discussion moderated by?Micah Sifry?(Personal Democracy Media). To RSVP or for more information please contact:?jamie@onevoicemovement.org.

• ?is organizing a??at the Park Slope United Methodist Church in Brooklyn, New York.??by filmmakers Eron Davidson (Israel) and Ana Nogueira (South Africa) will be screened on 19 October 2013. A discussion featuring Rebecca Arian (Jewish Voice for Peace); Father Khader El-Yateem (Salam Arabic Lutheran Church) and Wael Mousfar (Arab Muslim American Federation and Arab American Association of New York) will follow.

• Josh Ruebner?() is on a US??introducing his book –?– from?September to December 2013.

ISRAEL AND PALESTINE

• ?held its??from?19 to 21 September 2013.?This year’s camp focused on?.

• ,?,?,?,?, and??and??jointly submitted a??on the occasion of the 24th?session of the UN Human Rights Council, taking place in Geneva from?9 to 27 September 2013. Entitled?Closure and accountability, the statement draws attention to the deteriorating situation in the Gaza Strip as a result of the ongoing illegal closure imposed by Israel.

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

• ?is currently organizing a US tour of the??The Soldier and the Refusenik?featuring?Maya Wind, former prisoner and activist who refused to serve in the Israeli army, and?Eran Efrati, former combat soldier and company sergeant in the IDF. For more information please visit?

• ?is on a US tour with?Avner Gvaryahu?about the collective testimony book,?. Mr. Gvaryahu will be at the Columbia University in? on?7 October 2013. Invited by the Working Group of the Palestinian Rights Committee, he will also speak on?21 October?at the 麻豆APP.

• ?organized from?1 to 3 October 2013?an??on?Global Legal Education Approaches: Experiences for Palestine. The event was sponsored by?.

• ?released on?2 October 2013?its weekly? covering the period from 26 September to 2 October 2013.

• ?organized the??on?2?and?3 October 2013. Prime Minister?Rami Hamdallah?spoke at the?.

• ?announced on?25 September 2013?that Veolia Transdev, a long-standing target of boycott, divestment and Palestine solidarity campaigns worldwide along with its partial owner Veolia Environment,?.

UNITED NATIONS

• The Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People held its 354th meeting on 4 October 2013 at the UN Headquarters. The Committee heard a briefing by Amb. Riyad Mansour, Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine, on the situation on the ground and developments in the political process. The Committee elected the Ambassadors of Indonesia, Namibia and Nicaragua as additional members of its Bureau. Also, the Committee endorsed the accreditation of three civil society organizations.

• ?released its latest??covering the period from 24 to 30 September 2013 on?4 October 2013?and a new monthly??on?27 September 2013. OCHA also updated as of?23 September 2013?its report focusing on?.