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NGO Action News
27 February 2014

EUROPE

• ?is organizing a conference-debate on?Europe and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?with?Véronique De Keyser?(Member of the European Parliament) and?David Cronin?(The Guardian, Electronic Intifada) who will take part in a conversation moderated by?Hassan Bousetta?(Belgian senator and professor). The event will take place on?6 March 2014 at 8.00 pm in Liège (Salle Piron, 4th?floor, 13 Place Saint-Paul).

• ?and??issued a??on?25 February 2014 welcoming the announcement that Israel will establish a pilot scheme to issue summonses to Palestinian children suspected of crimes, instead of using night time arrests.

• ?is organizing an??(?only) on?7 March 2013?at SOAS University with political and human rights activist?Musheir El-Farra?for the launch of his book?.

• ?will take part in an international solidarity march with the Gaza Strip on the occasion of International Women’s Day on?8 March 2014. Watch a video message?. For more information please contact:?femmesgaza@gmail.com.

• ?(CPJPO) is screening on?19 March 2014?(Centre Curiel, Luxembourg-Hollerich) the 1998 BBC documentary narrated by?Edward Sa?d?In search of Palestine, Edward Sa?d’s return home. The event starts at 6.30pm. CPJPO also issued its most recent??on?22 February 2014.

• ?issued on?19 February 2014?a? inviting its supporters to ask European Governments to issue warning to business about the involvement with Israeli settlements.

• ?posted on?25 February 2014?a new??featuring a conversation with?Rabab Khairy?(CNCD-11.11.11.) and?Esti Micenmacher?(Who Profits?) about the new Belgian campaign?calling for an end to the trade with Israeli settlements.

• ?presents until?8 March 2014?,?a compilation of texts dedicated to the question of Palestine, put together and orchestrated by?Adeline Rosenstein.

• ,?the General Secretariat of the Palestinians in Europe Conference?and?the Palestinian Forum?announced the launch and preparation for the?to be held in Paris on?3 May 2014.

• ?is co-organizing the festival??on?23 March 2014.

ISRAEL AND PALESTINE

• ?issued a??on?25 February 2014 condemning the continued targeting of Palestinian human rights organizations in coordinated night raids by the Israeli forces.

• ?posted on?28 January 2014?a? of the E1 area near Jerusalem.

• ?(AIC) will organize its next??on?1 March 2014?with?Ala’ Hilu, Palestinian environmental activist and creator of?.

• ?posted on?19 February 2014?a new? focusing on water supply problems in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

• ?brought over 300 Israeli students to Ramallah for a??with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on?16 February 2014.

• ?(PCHR) released on?23 February 2014?its weekly?covering the period 13 to 19 February 2014.

NORTH AMERICA

• ?is organizing from?28 February to 1 March 2014?a symposium entitled?2014 New Directions in Palestinian Studies. RSVP?.

• ?organized on?26 February 2014?a briefing with US Palestinian-Jordanian author and political columnist?Rami G. Khouri?under the title?Making progress or spinning wheels? Analyzing the new US push for Palestinian-Israeli peace.

• ?published on?24 February 2014?a corrected version of its? covering the period January-February 2014.

• ?(IMEU) published on?20 February 2014?a??entitled?The Ibrahimi Mosque Massacre: 20 Years Later.

• ?(MECA) is hosting the??of the award-winning documentary??directed by?Mahdi Fleifel?at Berkeley City College on?5 March 2014. A brief panel discussion will follow the film.

• ?is hosting a??between?Ali Abunimah?(Electronic Intifada),?Max Blumenthal?(The Daily Beast, Al Akhbar) and?Lisa Duggan?(NYU) on?10 March 2014. This event is part of Abunimah’s tour book?.

• ?are hosting on?4 March 2014?the??of the documentary??co-directed by?Alice Rothchild?andSharon Mullally. The film will be followed by a conversation with co-director Alice Rothchild.

• ?published at??on?24 February 2014?from a group of Israeli and Jewish students at UCLA who officially endorse the divestment bill put forward by? which seeks to directly target corporations that are complicit in the Israeli occupation.

• ?is organizing a book??of??by?Josh Ruebner, National Advocacy Director of the US Campaign, throughout the months of February and March. The next event is taking place on?27 February 2014?at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. The US Campaign is also??on its supporters to tell TV channel NBC not to produce a new action series set to be shot in East Jerusalem in cooperation with Israeli authorities and an Israeli media company.

GLOBAL

• ?published a new report entitled??on?27 February 2014.

UNITED NATIONS

• 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!

• ?released its??on?27 February 2014, covering the period 18 to 24 February 2014.

• The 麻豆APP Information System on the Question of Palestine?(UNISPAL) published on?19 February 2014?a?presentation?by?Udo Kock?(IMF) entitled?Between a Rock and a Hard Place – Recent Economic Developments in the Palestinian Economy.

• ?(UNRWA) is planning to do a??using the following statement as the basis: “We demand a peaceful end to this devastating conflict and immediate, secure, substantial and permanent humanitarian access for all civilians in Syria. In the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus the parties have shown they can come together in ways that facilitate the work of humanitarian organisations. We urge the parties and the international community to act peacefully together now to halt the march of death, injuries, hunger and suffering in Syria.”?If you would like your organisation to sign up to the statement, please contact UNRWA’s Spokesperson, Chris Gunness,?c.gunness@unrwa.org, before?3 March 2014, 10.00 am (Jerusalem time), and provide the exact name of your organization as you would like it to appear on the statement.

• , Richard Falk, presented on?24 February 2014?his final??during the 25th?session of the?. In the report Mr. Falk recommends that UN Member States should consider imposing a ban on imports of produce from Israeli settlements.

• ,?Jeffrey Feltman,??the Security Council on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question, on?25 February 2014.

• ?organized its third meeting on?24 February 2014.?Brad Parker?() briefed the Working Group members on Palestinian child arrests and ill-treatment by Israeli authorities. Watch the video?.