{"id":282755,"date":"2016-04-22T16:33:47","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T20:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?post_type=document&#038;p=282755"},"modified":"2022-11-04T16:38:42","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T20:38:42","slug":"ngo-action-news-22-april-2016","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/ngo-action-news-22-april-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"NGO Action News &#8211; 22 April 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>This newsletter informs about recent and upcoming activities of Civil Society Organizations affiliated with the Â鶹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 \u201cas is\u201d 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.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>NGO Action News<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>22 April 2016<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3 class=\"fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" data-fontsize=\"16\" data-lineheight=\"24px\">Americas<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>On 17 April J Street\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/jstreet.org\/2016-assembly-stream\">National Gala<\/a> brought together over a thousand supporters. US Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of State John Kerry and Member of Knesset Stav Sharrif delivered remarks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>On 20 April in Washington D.C. New America organized a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newamerica.org\/fellows\/law-under-occupation\/\">conversation<\/a> with Raji Sourani on Law under Occupation: Pursuing Implementation of Human Rights Standards and Accountability in Palestine.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>On 22 April in Atlanta Georgia, \u201cHands for Justice in Israel-Palestine\u201d is organizing an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arabamerica.com\/events\/hands-justice-israel-palestines-annual-fundraiser\/\">Israel-Palestine annual fundraiser<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>On 23 April, in Raleigh, North Carolina, Palestinian Children\u2019s Relief Fund (PCRF) is organizing a run to raise US $ 4, 000 and to improve care, quality of life and survival rates of the children of Palestine and the Middle East.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" data-fontsize=\"16\" data-lineheight=\"24px\">Europe<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>On 24 April, in Dublin, the Island Palestine Solidarity Campaign will participate in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipsc.ie\/event\/dublin-join-the-palestine-bloc-at-the-reclaim-the-vision-of-1916-march-and-pagent\">march<\/a> \u201cReclaim the Vision of 1916\u201d, to honour the women and men who struggled for Ireland\u2019s independence.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>On 20 May, CAABU hosted an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.palestinecampaign.org\/events\/popular-unarmed-resistance-in-palestine-caabu-event-with-marwan-darweish\/\">event<\/a> with Marwan Darweish on popular unarmed resistance in Palestine.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>On 21 May in Ireland, acclaimed Palestinian refugee poet, Rafeef Ziadah presented\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipsc.ie\/event\/limerick-rafeef-ziadah-we-teach-life\">poetry<\/a>\u00a0and music on the themes of exile, dispossession and resistance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" data-fontsize=\"16\" data-lineheight=\"24px\">Â鶹APP<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>On 27 April at 10:00 a.m. at the ECOSOC Chamber, UNHQ, the Working Group of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of Palestinian People is organizing an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unispal.un.org\/databases\/dprtest\/ngoweb.nsf\/f12fded4d0597000852573fc005b9471\/4dd4ca61197c705885257f9900698915?OpenDocument\">open briefing<\/a>\u00a0to raise awareness of the situation of detained children and youth in the occupied Palestinian territory. The invited expert speakers are Ms. Sahar Francis, Director of Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association and Mr. Khaled Quzmar, General Director of Defence for Children International-Palestine. The open briefing will be moderated by Ms. Sarah Leah Whitson, Executive Director of Human Rights Watch\u2019s MENA Division.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This newsletter informs about recent and upcoming activities of Civil Society Organizations affiliated with the Â鶹APP Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People. 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