{"id":282795,"date":"2016-03-24T15:43:26","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T19:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?post_type=document&#038;p=282795"},"modified":"2022-11-07T15:48:52","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T20:48:52","slug":"ngo-action-news-24-march-2016","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/ngo-action-news-24-march-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"NGO Action News &#8211; 24 March 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>24 March 2016<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3 class=\"fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" data-fontsize=\"16\" data-lineheight=\"24px\"><strong>United States<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>On 15 April, The Palestinian Centre in Washington D.C. is hosting Professor Greg Thomas who will discuss his recently curated\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejerusalemfund.org\/events\/upcoming\/sunlight-sumud-george-jackson-lives-abu-jihad-center-palestinian-captives-movement\">exhibition<\/a>\u00a0\u201cGeorge Jackson in the Sun of Palestine\u201d. In parallel, on 21 April the centre is hosting a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejerusalemfund.org\/events\/upcoming\/bds-context-challenges-omar-shakir-rahul-saksena\">panel<\/a> on BDS with Omar Shakir from the Centre for Constitutional Rights.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>On 3 May, The Palestine Centre in Washington D.C. is hosting an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejerusalemfund.org\/events\/upcoming\/whither-children-stone-entire-life-occupation\">event<\/a> \u201cWhither the Children of the Stone?\u201d with Dr. Brian Barber who examines the situation of a generation of Palestinians living their entire lives under occupation. The event is co-sponsored by the Institute of Palestine Studies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>On 4 May the Jerusalem Fund in Washington D.C. is organizing a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejerusalemfund.org\/events\/upcoming\/gallery-exhibition-nakba-never-forgotten\">Gallery Exhibition<\/a>\u00a0\u201cNakba Never Forgotten.\u201d In parallel, on 6 May the Jerusalem Fund is organizing a 2016 Hisham Sharabi memorial lecture \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejerusalemfund.org\/events\/upcoming\/2016-hisham-sharabi-memorial-lecture-palestinian-education-for-the-21st-century-with-dr-fouad-moughrabi\">Palestinian education for the 21st\u00a0Century<\/a>\u201d with Dr. Fouad Moughrabi.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" data-fontsize=\"16\" data-lineheight=\"24px\"><strong>Europe<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>On 30 March in Dublin, Trinity College is hosting an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipsc.ie\/event\/dublin-tcd\">evening<\/a> \u201cRefugee Voices in Ireland. Displacement, Exile and Hope\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Palestine Solidarity Campaign on 1-7 April in Bristol, UK is organizing an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.palestinecampaign.org\/events\/13067\/\">exhibition<\/a> by painter Roger Farnworth (1937-2013) \u201cFrom Warleggan to the West Bank\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The Palestine-Israel Development Education\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipsc.ie\/event\/dublin-palestineisrael-development-education-course-comhlamh\">course<\/a>\u00a0about ongoing conflict in Palestine and Israel organized by the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.comhlamh.org\/\">Comhlamh<\/a> group, will be launched from 7 April in Dublin. The course will cover issues such as history, Gaza, Jerusalem, refugees and settlements.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>In Britain on 6 August the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign is organizing \u201c\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipsc.ie\/event\/britain\">The Big Ride- Palestine<\/a>\u201d where Palestine supporters will stage a major public event, with music and other entertainment, and with speakers from the growing solidarity movement.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" data-fontsize=\"16\" data-lineheight=\"24px\"><strong>Â鶹APP<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>On 26 March in New York, American Friends of UNWRA is organizing \u201cGaza 5 K\u201d run\/walk fundraising and solidarity\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unrwausa.org\/\">event<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>On 7 April\u00a0the Working Group of the UN Palestinian Rights Committee is organizing a screening of the film \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/unispal.un.org\/databases\/dprtest\/ngoweb.nsf\/f12fded4d0597000852573fc005b9471\/17f42186f98a30fd85257f7e004b131b?OpenDocument\">Giraffada<\/a>\u201d with director Rani Massalha and moderated by Ahmed Shihab-Eldin of the Huffington Post, at 6:30 p.m. at the Trusteeship Council room, at UN Headquarters in New York. To attend this UN and New York premiere of the award-winning French-German-Italian-Palestinian production, register at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/forms\/tR0R6qM9bo\">http:\/\/goo.gl\/forms\/tR0R6qM9bo<\/a><\/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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