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NGO Action News
09 December 2014

ASIA

• ?will hold its next meeting on?11 December 2014?in Bangkok. Please contact?palestinesolidaritythailand@gmail.com?for more information.

EUROPE

• ?(ABP) is inviting its supporters to sign a? calling for the recognition of the State of Palestine.

• ?(ECCP)?issued a? on?10 November 2014?on the EU-Israel Association Agreement.

• ?(IPSC) is hosting its Christmas fundraiser lunch in?Dublin on?14 December 2014. Click? for more information.

• ?(MAP) issued an? on?25 November 2014?to address the winter crisis currently hitting the Gaza Strip.

• ?is organizing on?21 December 2014?a??entitled?What is happening in Palestine??with?Catrin Ormestad, journalist and author of the reportage?Gaza: a love story;?Pierre Schori, former UN ambassador and author of the book?Memory and fire,?P?l Wrange, Professor of International Law at Stockholm University. The discussion will be moderated by?Lotta Schüllerqvist, journalist and author of the book?Marn?s secret. The event will be followed by a concert with the Palestinian hip-hop band.

ISRAEL AND PALESTINE

• ?issued a? on?30 November 2014?entitled?Is Torture a Crime in Israel?

• ?published a? of the?Tzurim Valley National Park?in East Jerusalem to show the “judaization” of the city and the deterioration of the living conditions of its Palestinian residents.

• ?issued its latest? on 5 December 2014.

• ?published an? on?26 November 2014?on the Gaza reconstruction.

• ?(PCHR) issued its latest??on Israeli human rights violations in the OPT on?4 December 2014?covering the period 27 November – 3 December 2014. PCHR also warmly welcomed on?8 December 2014?in a? the efforts made by the Swiss Government to convene a conference of the High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention.

• ?(WCLAC) issued its November?.

NORTH AMERICA

• ?(CMEP) is organizing on its 8th Annual Bethlehem Prayer Service on?20 December 2014?in Washington. Click? for more information and streaming.

• ?(FMEP) and??are organizing on?10 December 2014?in Washington the??The U.S., Israel and the Regional Dimensions of an Iran Nuclear Deal?featuring?Shlomo Brom, Visiting Fellow, Center for American Progress and former IDF Brigadier General;?Suzanne DiMaggio,?Senior Fellow and Director of the Iran Initiative, New America; and?Ilan Goldenberg,?Senior Fellow and Middle East Security Program Director, Center for a New American Security, former Chief of Staff to the Special Envoy for Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations Martin Indyk. Click? to RSVP.

• ?(IMEU) published on?3 December 2014?a new? entitled?Floods Add to Gaza’s Many Troubles.

• The Israel-Palestine NGO Working Group at the UN?hosted?Omar Barghouti?(BDS Movement)?on?3 December 2014?to discuss the recent achievements of the BDS movement. The video is available?.

• ?(MECA) invites its supporters to the??of??(Just World Books) with?Richard Falk, former UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The event will take place on?11 December 2014?in Berkeley.

GLOBAL

• ?issued on?9 December 2014?the report?.

• ?is? on the UN to adopt a procurement policy that excludes from tenders for the Gaza reconstruction companies profiting from the Israeli occupation.

• ?(HRW) issued a? on?22 November 2014?calling on Israel to impose an immediate moratorium on its policy of demolishing the family homes of Palestinians suspected of carrying out attacks on Israelis.

• The International Conference of Governments and Civil Society Organizations in Support of Palestinian Rights?took place in Seville on?2-3 December 2014. The event was jointly organized by the??(FAMSI), the?UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People(CEIRPP),??(UCLG) and the Junta of Andalusia, with the collaboration of the Parliament of Andalusia. The representatives of city and local governments, as well as of civil society organizations issued the??at the end of the conference.

UNITED NATIONS

• ?issued its most recent? covering the period 20 November – 1 December.

• ?launched on?9 December 2014?an??for US$ 414 million to support some of the most disadvantaged Palestinians in the Middle East – Palestine refugees living in the occupied Palestinian territory.