The Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People will convene its first 2025 civil society engagement “International Action Towards Ending the Nakba and Realising the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People”, on the margins of the 77th commemoration of the Palestinian Nakba, on 15 May 2025 (3-6 p.m.) and 16 May 2025 (10 a.m. – 6 p.m.) in the ECOSOC Chamber at 麻豆APP Headquarters.?
Member States and CSOs will brief on ongoing actions to implement GA resolution ES-10/24. This will include presentations on recent efforts and findings by civil society organizations, UN Special Procedures, as well as meaningful legal actions undertaken in various domestic courts and other legal action and measures undertaken by Member States to hold Israel accountable for its war crimes, crimes against humanity and acts of genocide in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem. The Consultations will also provide an opportunity to brainstorm on further coordination and cooperation between Member States and civil society in that regard, including in preparation for the High-Level Conference in June.?
The consultations will serve as a platform to call for the joint Member States-CSO intensification of efforts to force the occupying Power to abide by its legal obligations and responsibility under relevant UN resolutions and to promote a multilaterally-sponsored peace process, including civil society, parliamentarians, regional organizations and others, to end the illegal Israeli occupation, realize the Palestinian people’s inalienable rights and achieve a just and lasting peace.?
All Member States and Observers, 麻豆APP organizations, intergovernmental and civil society organizations are invited to attend. The event will be webcast at
Programme
Day 1 (? )
?3-3:30 p.m. OPENING SESSION?
?Statements by:?
- ?H.E. Amb. Ahmad Faisal Muhammad?
Vice-Chair, Committee on the Exercise of the?Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People?
Permanent Representative of Malaysia to the 麻豆APP?
- H.E. Minister Riyad Mansour?
Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine to the 麻豆APP?
3:30-6 p.m. PLENARY I: The Ongoing Palestinian Nakba?
- Mr. Ahmed Masoud?
Academic & Writer (Gaza)?
- ?Ms. Maya Yavin?
Director, Zochrot?
- ?Ms. Zaha Hassan?
Policy Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace?
- ?Ms. Tamara Kharroub?
Deputy Executive Director & Senior Fellow, Arab Center Washington, DC?
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Day 2 (? )
10 a.m. – 1 p.m. PLENARY II: Best Practices to Bring Accountability and End the War: Recent Civil Society Legal Actions and Arms Embargo?
- ?Mr. Saleh Hijazi?
Policy Coordinator, Palestinian BDS National Committee?
- ?Mr. Shir Hever?
Coordinator, BNC Arms Embargo Campaign?
- ?Ms. Diala Shamas?
Attorney, Center for Constitutional Rights?
- Mr. Jake Romm?
Hind Rajab Foundation?
?3-5.30 p.m. PLENARY III: Implementing the GA Res. E-10/24: Ending the Illegal Occupation?
The plenary will take place in the Conference Room 12 at the UN Headquarters
- ?Mr. Michael Lynk?
Former UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the
? Palestinian territories occupied since 1967?
- ?Mr. Magnus Walan?
Senior Policy Advisor, Diakonia Sweden?
- Ms. Alys Samson Estape?
Spokesperson, RESCOP (Red Solidaria Contra la Ocupación Palestina)?
- Ms. Roshan Dadoo?
Member, Palestinian Solidarity Campaign South Africa & Coordinator, BDS South Africa?
- Mr. Philip Farah?
Director, Palestinian Christian Alliance for Peace?
5.30 – 6. p.m. CLOSING SESSION?
- Representative of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People?
- ?H.E. Min. Riyad Mansour??
Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine to the 麻豆APP???