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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
10 November 2014

EUROPE

• ?(ABP), the??(ECCP) and? are organizing the conferenceEuropean Union obligations vis-à-vis occupied East Jerusalem?on?17 November 2014?in Brussels. More details to come soon.

• ?organized a??on?6 November 2014?at Café Monk in Brussels with with?Ronnie Barkan, a member of?.

• (CPJPO) is offering a one-day training for activists on the Middle East on?16 November 2014?in Luxembourg. For more information please contact?nathalieoberweis@yahoo.com.

• is hosting the debate?Israel/Palestine, where is the peace camp??featuring?MEP?Marie Arena, the Palestinian Ambassador to the European Union?Leila Shahidand the human rights activist?Simone Susskind?on?20 November 2014?in Brussels at Cinéma Vend?me (8.00pm).

• ?(IDMC) issued on?27 October 2014?a new??focusing on Palestine and entitled?A policy of displacement and dispossession amid renewed conflict. A statistical e analysis is available?.

• ?(MAP) published on?6 November 2014?a? from the Gaza Strip entitled?Look Closer.

• ?is hosting the workshop?Palestine for Dummies?in Brussels on?8-15 and 22 November 2014. For more information contact:?stienstijn@gmail.com?orinfo@palestinasolidariteit.be.

• ?(PSC) issued a??on?6 November 2014?entitled?What the media won’t tell you about East Jerusalem.?PSC will also host the? Parliament Recognises Palestine: What Next??on?13 November 2014?in London.

• ’s photo? Room No.4?illustrating the reality of detained Palestinian children in East Jerusalem is presented at the public library of Florenville in Belgium on?5-19 November 2014.

• More than 300 trade unions, NGOs and other civil society organizations?from across Europe??on the European Union on?2 November 2014?to suspend the EU-Israel Association Agreement until Israel complies with international law.

ISRAEL AND PALESTINE

• ?issued on?30 October 2014?an? urging the International community to take concrete action to end Israel’s aggression against the Al-Aqsa Compound.

• ?published on?2 November 2014?a? on the West bank village of Burqah.

• ?published a? on?6 November 2014?about the first good from Gaza to be sold in the West Bank since June 2007.

• ?(PCHR) issued its latest??on Israeli human rights violations in the OPT on?6 November 2014?covering the period 30 October –5 November 2014. PCHR also condemned in a? issued on?3 November 2014?the latest Israeli measures and decisions against East Jerusalem.

• ?(WCLAC) issued its October?.

NORTH AMERICA

• A coalition of faith groups?dedicated to encouraging peace with justice for Palestinians and Israelis launched the? banner campaign.

• ?(CMEP) is organizing on?19 November 2014?the? Homes and Human Rights in the West Bank and Gaza?with?Anat Saragusti, director of 叠’罢蝉别濒别尘 USA.

• ?(FMEP),??and the??organized on?6 November 2014?the? New Media in the Israeli Landscape: The role of independent digital magazines. Speakers included?Noam Sheizaf?(+972 Magazine),?Yael Marom?(Just Vision) and?Muna Shikaki?(Al Arabiya).

• ?(IMEU) published on?6 November 2014?an??entitled?Unrest in Occupied East Jerusalem?with?Ingrid Jaradat Gassner, Coordinator of International Advocacy and Public Relations for the?.

• ?(LAP) launched on?6 November 2014?a new??designed as an international reading and discussion initiative and entitled?One Book, Many Communities: Mornings in Jenin. Any questions about the campaign can be directed to?librarians2palestine@gmail.com.

• ?(MECA) organizes an??in Berkeley (CA) with Professor?Steven Salaita?on?11 November 2014?on?Silencing Palestinian voices on Campuses. MECA also launched a? to stop the arrest and detention of Palestinian children.

• ?released on?30 October 2014?an??with?Ben Norton, an American freelance writer, artist and activist whose work has been published in CounterPunch, Electronic Intifada, Common Dreams, ThinkProgress, and ZNet, among other publications.

GLOBAL

• ?said on?5 November 2014?in a? (Families under the rubble: Israeli attacks on inhabited homes)?on the latest Israeli operation in the Gaza Strip that Israeli forces have killed scores of Palestinian civilians in attacks targeting houses where families were present, which in some cases have amounted to war crimes.

• ?(EWASH) is hosting the event?Water deprived / The right to water and sanitation in the occupied Palestinian territory?on?10 November 2014?in Brussels with?Johanna von Toggenburg?(EWASH) and?Rachel Borell?(Al Haq). For more information and to RSVP contact?johanna@ewash.org.

• ?(FIDH) conducted an investigative??in Gaza from?24 to 28 October. This mission was able to document the destruction of infrastructure in Gaza during the last offensive led by Israel. A report will follow in the coming weeks.

UNITED NATIONS

• The Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People?(CEIRPP), the??(UCLG), the??(FAMSI) and the??are co-convening the International Conference of Local Governments and Civil Society Organizations in Support of Palestinian Rights,?from 2 to 3 December 2014, in Seville, Spain. More information and RSVP (no later than?25 November 2014) available at the following?

• The International Year of Solidarity with the Palestinian People?has a??and official hashtag?#2014forPalestine. Share the word and let us know about your International Year plans at?2014forPalestine@un.org!

• ?issued its most recent??on?7 November 2014?covering the period 28 October – 3 November.