  {"id":205557,"date":"2010-12-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T19:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=205557"},"modified":"2019-03-12T19:00:23","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T19:00:23","slug":"auto-insert-205557","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-205557\/","title":{"rendered":"Closure of Sharek Youth Forum in the Gaza Strip &#8211; UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in the OPT statement &#8211; UNSCO press release"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<hr height=\"7px\" \/>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><img class=\"lazyload\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%2775%27%20height%3D%2763%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%2075%2063%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%2775%27%20height%3D%2763%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/370832cae3919346852577f20052aaa4_image0.GIF\" border=\"0\" height=\"63px\" width=\"75px\" \/><\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>Statement by Maxwell Gaylard,<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>Âé¶¹APP Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in the occupied Palestinian Territory<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>On the Closure of Sharek Youth Forum in the Gaza Strip <\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;padding-bottom:10px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>For immediate release<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;padding-bottom:10px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>Jerusalem, 7 December 2010<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;padding-bottom:10px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">The Âé¶¹APP Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in the occupied Palestinian Territory, Maxwell Gaylard, today voiced his concern about the forced closure on 30 November by the local authorities in Gaza of all Gaza-based offices of the non-governmental organization Sharek Youth Forum. <\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;padding-bottom:10px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">&#8220;I am very concerned about the recent forced closing of Sharek Youth Forum in Gaza.&nbsp;&nbsp;Sharek is an important NGO partner of the Âé¶¹APP in its work on behalf of children and the youth in Gaza&#8221;, Mr. Gaylard said.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;padding-bottom:10px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">Mr. Gaylard noted that &#8220;Sharek&#8217;s work forms part of the many important activities carried out by civil society organizations in the occupied Palestinian Territory promoting development and the protection of human rights.&#8220; <\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;padding-bottom:10px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">He stated that freedom of association and freedom of expression are fundamental rights protected by international law as well as the Palestinian Basic Law and expressed his hope that Sharek would be permitted to continue its work in Gaza without further delay or undue hindrance.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><br \/>\nHayat Abu-Saleh<br \/>\nOffice of the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process (UNSCO)<br \/>\nPublic Information and Media Unit<br \/>\nTel: 972-2-5687287<br \/>\nMobile: 972-54-6631114<br \/>\nE-mail: abusaleh@un.org<br \/>\n<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unsco.org\" style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">www.unsco.org<\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statement by Maxwell Gaylard, Âé¶¹APP Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in the occupied Palestinian Territory On the Closure of Sharek Youth Forum in the Gaza Strip For immediate release Jerusalem, 7 December 2010 The Âé¶¹APP Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in the occupied Palestinian Territory, Maxwell Gaylard, today voiced his concern about the forced closure <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-205557\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[1329,1338],"document-source":[2609],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[2005,1741,5362,2097],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-205557","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-press-release","document-category-statement","document-source-united-nations-resident-and-humanitarian-coordinator-for-the-opt","document-subject-gaza-strip","document-subject-human-rights-and-international-humanitarian-law","document-subject-ngo-civil-society","document-subject-social-issues","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/205557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/205557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=205557"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=205557"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=205557"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=205557"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=205557"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=205557"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=205557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}