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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
22 May 2014

EUROPE

• ?(ABP) together with any other organizations, NGOs, unions and?, are organizing a major solidarity event entitled?Yalla Palestina?to highlight the important challenges and issues of Palestine on?25 May 2014?in Brussels. The event is a contribution to the?International Year of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. Additional information can be found?.

• ?published on?2 May 2014?an? of the Arab villages lost since Israel’s war of independence in 1948.

• ?(IPSC) is organizing a??on?2-10 August 2014.

• ?(MAP) is organizing the event??to raise money to support Palestinians, on?7 September 2014. MAP also posted new?on?9 May 2014?under the title?The human cost of de-development in Gaza.

• ?posted on?29 April 2014?an??with?Josh Ruebner, National Advocacy Director of the?, about the peace negotiations between Israel and Palestine.

• ?organized on?3 May 2014?the??Is Israel an Apartheid State??with?Adri Nieuwhof?(Electronic Intifada),?Ben White?(author and activist) andHanine Hassan?(Columbia University).

• ?(Belgium) is proposing an??to explore different parts of Palestine on?1-10 August 2014.

ISRAEL AND PALESTINE

• ?issued on?20 May 2014?a? refuting the IDF’s claim that no live ammunition was used during the Ofer prison incident which led to the killing of two Palestinian teenagers on 15 May.

• ?(DCI-P) posted on?17 May 2014?a??documenting the shooting of two Palestinian youths during the 15 May Nakba Day protest. The video indicates the victims were far away from the clashes and not in a direct confrontation with soldiers, DCI-P said. DCI-P also released on?15 May 2014?a?examining the increasing use of solitary confinement against Palestinian child detainees for interrogation purposes.

• ?(ICAHD) published its latest??on 17 April 2014. ICAHD’s??will take place?3-18 August 2014?near Jerusalem.

• ?(PCHR) released its latest??covering the period?8 to 14 May 2014.

• ?published on?29 April 2014?the fact sheet entitled?.

• ?announced on?19 May 2014?that Israeli forces destroyed an estimated 1,500 fruit trees belonging to the organization’s farm in the Bethlehem region. Photographs of the incident are available on the organization’s?.

• Zochrot?published on?9 May 2014?, a trilingual mobile app (Arabic, English and Hebrew) based on GPS technology which allows users to locate and learn about Palestinian localities destroyed during, and after 1948.

MIDDLE EAST

• Visualizing Palestine?issued a new??on?15 May 2014?entitled?Identity Crisis: The Israeli ID System.

NORTH AMERICA

• ,??(JVP), and the??attempted to deliver a?addressed to?Cory Shields, Executive VP Communications of NBC Universal, at NBC’s office in New York on?6 May 2014. NBC refused to accept the petition which was signed by 5,000 people calling on the network to end its involvement in the action series?DIG, which will be set and shot in Israeli settlements in East Jerusalem.

• ?(ADC) is preparing for its?. The Convention will be held on?12-15 June 2014?in Arlington, Virginia.Jeff Halper?(ICADH co-founder),?Johnathan Kuttab?(Al-Haq co-founcer) and?Delinda C. Hanley (Washington Report on Middle East Affairs) will speak at the event.

• ,?,?Jewish Voice for Peace,?National Lawyers Guild – Palestine Subcommittee?and the??organized a??on?21 May 2014 on Capitol Hill about Israel’s discrimination against US citizens of Palestinian descent.

• ?(CMEP) organized on?20 May 2014?a briefing with?Daoud Nassar?to talk about the Tent of Nations Project which became a center for peace and local education. Post-event links are available?here. Also, CMEP’s Board of Director’s Study Tour to Palestine and Israel will take place?8 November – 15 November 2014. Custom-created by CMEP this dual narrative travel experience offers a unique vantage point on peace building efforts in Israel and Palestine. Brochure is available??as well as the.

• ?published on?14 April 2014?its March/April 2014?Report on Israeli Settlement in the Occupied Territories. It is available??or downloadable in?.

• ?is convening its??in San Francisco on?7-8 June 2014.??will close on 3 June. The opening night (free event) will begin with a behind-the-scenes look at Mideast diplomacy with?Salam Fayyad?(former Palestinian Prime Minister),?Gabriela Shalev?(Former Israeli Ambassador to the UN) and?Daniel Kurtzer?(Former US Ambassador to Israel and Egypt).

• ?announced on its website that Rachel’s family??will be heard before the Israeli Supreme Court on?21 May 2014 in Jerusalem to challenge the Haifa District Court’s August 2012 ruling concluding that the death of the activist crushed by an IDF bulldozer was accidental.

• ?(MECA) is convening an event in Walnut Creek, California with the author?Miko Peled?on?29 May 2014. Click? for more information.

• ?posted on?23 April 2014?an interview with?Alison Weir, journalist and founder of the group??and president of?.

• ?organized an event on?8 May 2014?during which?Martin Indyk,?US Special Envoy for Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations??on the latest round of talks.

GLOBAL

• Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel,?, the?Center for Constitutional Rights?(CCR), the??(FIDH),?(PCHR),??and the??(PCATI) issued a??on?21 May 2014?urging Israel to end the impunity for the killing of?Rachel Corrie who was crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer in the Gaza Strip in 2003.

• ?released a??on?15 May 2014?declaring that Israeli forces displayed recklessness in killing two youths protesting outside the Ofer military camp in the West Bank on 15 May.

UNITED NATIONS

• The?UN Palestinian Rights Committee?held the??on the Question of Jerusalem?Strengthening international support for a just and lasting solution of the question of Jerusalem?in Ankara on?12-13 May 2014,?in cooperation with the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and the Government of Turkey. A Public Forum on the Question of Jerusalem took place on?14 May 2014?at TOBB University of Economics and Technology in Ankara.?Mohammad Shtayyeh?(Senior Advisor to President Abbas) and?Fady Khoury(Adalah-The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel) took part in the forum during which the Oscar-nominated movie? by Hany Abu-Assad was screened.

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

• ?issued its protection of civilians weekly??covering the period?6-12 May 2014.

• The Working Group of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People?hosted the screening of the documentary film?Flying Paper?on Gaza children on?21 May 2014.?Nitin Sawhney, film co-director, and?Robert Turner, Director of UNRWA Gaza Operations spoke at the event held at UN Headquarters. The video of the event is available?.