{"id":283046,"date":"2015-07-15T10:31:22","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T14:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?post_type=document&#038;p=283046"},"modified":"2022-11-15T10:37:35","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T15:37:35","slug":"ngo-action-news-15-july-2015-2","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/ngo-action-news-15-july-2015-2\/","title":{"rendered":"NGO Action News &#8211; 15 July 2015"},"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 July 2015<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3 class=\"fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" data-fontsize=\"16\" data-lineheight=\"24px\"><strong>Europe<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.palestinecampaign.org\/\">Palestine Solidarity Campaign<\/a> organised on 10 July the Downing Street Vigil for Gaza\u2019s lost children and other Palestinians killed in Israel\u2019s war last summer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The Palestine Solidarity Campaign will hold on 23 July a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.palestinecampaign.org\/events\/solidarity-for-palestine-an-evening-of-fundraising-for-psc\/?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Stand+in+solidarity%3A+join+us+for+dinner%21&amp;utm_source=YMLP&amp;utm_term=Book+your+tickets+today.\">fundraising dinner<\/a> event in London. The event will be attended by high-profile speakers including\u00a0Prof Manuel Hassassian, Palestine\u2019s Ambassador to the UK; Diane Abbott, Labour MP; Salim Alam, PSC and Diana Neslen, Jews for Justice for Palestinians and by Ajmal Masroor who will make an appeal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The Palestine Solidarity Campaign is organising\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.palestinecampaign.org\/events\/book-launch-the-51-day-war-resistance-and-ruin-in-gaza\/?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Stand+in+solidarity%3A+join+us+for+dinner%21&amp;utm_source=YMLP&amp;utm_term=pv84_moreinfo.jpg\">several book-launching events<\/a> for Max Blumenthal\u2019s new book, \u2019The 51 Day War: Resistance and Ruin in Gaza\u2019 in the United Kingdom.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>In remembrance of last year\u2019s war in Gaza, the Palestine Solidarity Campaign on 22 July will\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unispal.un.org\/ngoactionnews.nsf\/1c0b3ab87dc4f2f8852568f8007759fd\/:%20http:\/www.palestinecampaign.org\/events\/film-birds-fly-fida-qishta\/?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Stand+in+solidarity%3A+join+us+for+dinner%21&amp;utm_source=YMLP&amp;utm_term=pv84_moreinfo.jpg\">screen\u00a0in Slow in the UK\u00a0the movie<\/a>\u00a0\u201cWhere Should The Birds Fly?\u201d by Fida Qishta.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" data-fontsize=\"16\" data-lineheight=\"24px\"><strong>Americas<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The Israel Palestine Working Group held on 13 July a Chatham House rules meeting with Kirsten Hagon, Oxfam and discussed AIDA\u2019s report on Gaza &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfam.org\/sites\/www.oxfam.org\/files\/file_attachments\/bp-charting-new-course-stalemate-gaza-130415-en.pdf\">Charting a New Course.&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A concert and book tour for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lepoissonrouge.com\/lpr_events\/children-of-the-stone-tour-july-8th-2015\/\">CHILDREN OF THE STONE\/DAL\u2019OUNA<\/a>\u00a0took place on\u00a09 July in New York featuring the powerful Palestinian composer and world musician Ramzi Aburedwan, his Arabic-French Dal\u2019Ouna Ensemble and author Sandy Tolan who read excerpts from the book.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" data-fontsize=\"16\" data-lineheight=\"24px\"><strong>Worldwide<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>On 2 July, War on Want, Campaign Against Arms Trade and Palestine Solidarity Campaign released the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.stoparmingisrael.org\/arming-apartheid\/\">report<\/a> entitled \u201cArming Apartheid: UK complicity in Israel\u2019s crimes against the Palestinian people\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>On 7 July, Amnesty International and Forensic Architecture have launched an investigative\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/gazaplatform.amnesty.org\/\">online tool<\/a> mapping Israeli attacks in Gaza during the conflict of July and August 2014.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The Rand Corporation published a research\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rand.org\/pubs\/research_reports\/RR740.html\">report<\/a>\u00a0on costs of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\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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