{"id":282758,"date":"2015-04-15T16:39:23","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T20:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?post_type=document&#038;p=282758"},"modified":"2022-11-04T16:47:03","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T20:47:03","slug":"ngo-action-news-15-april-2016","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/ngo-action-news-15-april-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"NGO Action News &#8211; 15 April 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<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>15 April 2016<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3 class=\"fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" data-fontsize=\"16\" data-lineheight=\"24px\"><strong>Americas<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>On 13 April, the Centre for American Progress hosted a panel discussion on \u201cSecuring the Economic Future of Palestine\u201d on what the US and its allies can do to improve Palestinian economic prospects event in the absence of a two-State solution.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>On 13 April, in New York, the Syracuse Peace Council hosted an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arabamerica.com\/events\/life-occupied-palestine-personal-accounts\/\">event<\/a>: \u201cLife in Occupied Palestine: Personal Accounts\u201d by Ahmed Hmeedat who will recount his experience growing up in a refugee camp.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>On 13 April, Soho Play House presented a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arabamerica.com\/events\/play-field-tour-nyc\/\">play<\/a>: \u201cThere is a Field\u201d by Jen Marlowe about the events of the second intifada.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>On 20 April, the Columbia University is hosting panel discussion on the role of literature in politics: \u201cAmerican Writers on Palestine\u201d moderated by Bruce Robbins.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>On 25 April, the University of Chicago is hosting an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aub.edu.lb\/Events\/Pages\/EventDetails.aspx?ItemId=2637\">event<\/a>\u00a0\u201cSalvaging Palestine: Art, Collaboration and Binational State\u201d by W.J.T. Mitchell.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" data-fontsize=\"18\" data-lineheight=\"27px\"><strong>Europe<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On 13 April in Amsterdam, the Maynooth University Department of Geography together with the Social Justice Research Cluster presented a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipsc.ie\/event\/maynooth-conference-empire-extra-territorial-violence-in-palestine-nuim\">panel discussion<\/a>: \u201cEmpire and Extra-Territorial Violence in Palestine\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>On 13 April in Ireland, Queen\u2019s University Belfast hosted Merav Amir\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipsc.ie\/event\/belfast-activism-resistance-and-the-new-security-logic-in-israel-palestine\">lecture<\/a> \u201cActivism, Resistance and the New Security Logic in Israel\/Palestine\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>On 16 April in London, on the occasion of Prisoner\u2019s Day, a Palestinian prisoners\u2019\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.palestinecampaign.org\/events\/palestine-prisoners-parade\/\">parade<\/a> will take place.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>On 17 April in London, the Palestine\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.palestinecampaign.org\/events\/palestine-fair-trade-excel-london-exhibition\/\">Fair<\/a> Trade NGO from Ramallah will exhibit products from Palestine at the natural and organic products exhibition which will take place at the ExCel Centre in London.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>On 18 April, the Ireland-Palestinian Solidarity Campaign is honoured to present Palestinian-Israeli lawyer Aouda Zbidat from Addameer to mark Palestinian Prisoner\u2019s Day 2016. She will\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipsc.ie\/event\/limerick-palestinian-lawyer-aouda-zbidat-palestinian-political-prisoners-from-children-to-internees-ipsc\">discuss<\/a>\u00a0human rights violations facing Palestinian political prisoners in occupied Palestine.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" data-fontsize=\"16\" data-lineheight=\"24px\"><strong>Australia<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>On 8 May, Australian friends of Palestine Association is hosting a presentation of Professor Stuart Rees\u2019\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.afopa.com.au\/stuart-rees-book-launch\/\">new novel<\/a>\u00a0\u201cA Lover\u2019s Country\u201d about the plight of the Palestinians and how love and courage triumph against formidable odds.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" data-fontsize=\"16\" data-lineheight=\"24px\"><strong>Palestine<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Dubai Cares announced a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unispal.un.org\/DPA\/DPR\/unispal.nsf\/47d4e277b48d9d3685256ddc00612265\/41b3ebe65f15696885257f95004edfb1?OpenDocument\">new programme in Gaza<\/a>\u00a0<u><\/u>amounting to USD 3,103,824 over the next two years to ensure access to education for 2,570 refugee Palestinian children, in partnership with UNRWA.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Defence for Children International Palestine (DCI-Palestine) released a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nwttac.dci-palestine.org\/\">new report<\/a>\u00a0detailing the wide-spread and systematic ill-treatment of Palestinian children in the Israeli military detention system.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; 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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