The Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People convened its first 2025 civil society engagement “International Action Towards Ending the Nakba and Realising the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People”, on the margins of the 77th commemoration of the Palestinian Nakba, on 15 May 2025 and 16 May 2025 in the ECOSOC Chamber at United Nations Headquarters.
The event served as a platform for Member States and CSOs to brief on ongoing actions to implement General Assembly resolution ES-10/24. Experts from Palestine, Israel, Africa, Europe and the Americas delivered briefings on recent efforts and findings by civil society organizations and UN Special Procedures. Participants brainstormed on further coordination and cooperation between Member States and civil society, including in preparation for the High-Level Conference on the Peaceful Settlement of the Question of Palestine in June 2025.
OPENING SESSION
H.E. Amb. Ahmad Faisal Muhammad Vice-Chair, Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People Permanent Representative of Malaysia to the United Nations
H.E. Minister Riyad Mansour, Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine to the United Nations
PLENARY I: The Ongoing Palestinian Nakba
Mr. Ahmed Masoud, Academic & Writer (Gaza)
Ms. Maya Yavin, Director, Zochrot
Ms. Zaha Hassan, Policy Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Ms. Tamara Kharroub, Deputy Executive Director & Senior Fellow, Arab Center Washington, DC
PLENARY II: Best Practices to Bring Accountability and End the War: Recent Civil Society Legal Actions and Arms Embargo
Mr. Saleh Hijazi, Policy Coordinator, Palestinian BDS National Committee
Mr. Shir Hever, Coordinator, BNC Arms Embargo Campaign
Ms. Diala Shamas, Attorney, Center for Constitutional Rights
Mr. Jake Romm, Hind Rajab Foundation
PLENARY III: Implementing the GA Res. E-10/24: Ending the Illegal Occupation
Mr. Michael Lynk, Former UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967
Mr. Magnus Walan, Head of Office, Diakonia Sweden
Ms. Alys Samson Estape, Spokesperson, RESCOP (Red Solidaria Contra la Ocupación Palestina)
Ms. Roshan Dadoo, Member, Palestinian Solidarity Campaign South Africa& Coordinator, BDS South Africa
Mr. Philip Farah, Director, Palestinian Christian Alliance for Peace
CLOSING SESSION
Representative of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People
H.E. Min. Riyad Mansour, Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine to the United Nation
