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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
27 October 2015

North America

• On 23 October, the?, Washington D.C. held their Annual Conference:? with internationally renowned scholars, activists, journalists, and other media practitioners who examined multiple aspects of the current situation, focusing on the context and representation of Palestinians in the media, regional and international politics, and in the United States.

• On 27 October, the Israel Palestine NGO Working Group to the UN in New York, together with Rebuilding Alliance, co-sponsored an event “#OPENGAZA: TRAUMA AND HOPE, FIRST HAND tour.” Dr. Yasser Abu-Jamie, MD, Executive Director of Gaza Community Health Programme and Ran Goldstein, Executive Director of Physicians for Human Rights, Israel briefed about Gaza’s mental health crisis and the impact of the blockade, especially among children.

• n 29 October, the??in New York will present?, a multimedia project by the filmmakers and producers Matt Peterson and Malek Rasamny, that brings together the spaces of the Indian reservation and Palestinian refugee camp.

• On 31 October, the?, Canada will present the film??by Rashid Masharawi, a story of two brothers who planned to emigrate from Palestine to Canada after an Israeli air force bombing destroyed their family home.

Europe

• On 31 October, the?, will hold a one-day conference??Sara Roy, Centre for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University, will participate.

麻豆APP

• The UN Palestinian Rights Committee will observe the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People on Monday, 23 November 2015 at the 麻豆APP Headquarters in New York. Observances will also be held at the UN Offices at Geneva on 30 November and at Vienna on 24 November, as well as in many other major cities around the world in cooperation with the UN Information Centres. Invitations to attend to accredited and observer CSOs will be sent shortly.

• The??in cooperation with the Organization of Islamic Cooperation will hold the International Meeting on the Question of Jerusalem in Jakarta, Indonesia from 14 to 15 December. A Civil Society Forum will be held on 16 December. Invitations to attend to accredited and observers CSOs will be sent shortly.