NGO Action News – 26 August 2016

This newsletter informs about recent and upcoming activities of Civil Society Organizations affiliated with the United Nations 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 “as is” 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.

NGO Action News
26 August 2016

Africa

• The UN Department of Public Information is working with the Department of International Relations and Cooperation of South Africa to organize the 2016 International Media Seminar on Peace in the Middle East, which will be held in Pretoria from 31 August to 2 September. Please follow #UNMediaSeminar. The Seminar is open to the public and NGOs. To attend, please register online.

• From 26 to 28 August, Berth DocHouse, a UK-based documentary centre, in partnership with Medical Aid for Palestinians will be hosting in London a screening of the documentary Ambulance. The screening is followed by a Skype Q&A with director Mohamed Jabaly and hosted by British filmmaker and journalist Jenny Kleeman. Through the documentary, Jabaly, who was given permission to join an ambulance crew, gives a first-person account of the Gaza conflict in the summer of 2014.

• On 13 September, St John of Jerusalem Eye Hospital will be hosting in London a lecture and reception by Palestinian diplomat Affif Saffieh.Saffieh has served as Palestinian ambassador in London, Washington and Moscow.

• On 23 September, Palestinian Solidarity Campaign will be hosting Iyad Burnat’s launch of his new book, Bil’in and the Nonviolent Resistance in London. Burnat is the head of the Bil’in Popular Committee against the Wall, and has led weekly non-violent demonstrations since 2005 against the separation wall.

North America

• On 19 September, Americans United for Palestinian Human Rights will be holding a talk entitled No Way to Treat a Child: Palestinian Children–from Gaza and the West Bank in Portland, Oregon. Jennifer Bing, of the American Friends Service Committee and Brad Parker, of Defence for Children International-Palestine, and other speakers will address how occupation impacts the children in Gaza and the West Bank.

• · From 22 to 25 September, the annual Toronto Palestine Film Festival will feature the screenings of the following films by Palestinian directors and/or about Palestine: 3000 Nights, Open Bethlehem;Love, Theft and Other Entanglements, and Dégradéamong others. It will also include performances by Palestinian spoken word artist Rafeef Ziadah.

• On 26 August, the heads of UN Agencies in Palestine published a press release and report on the two year anniversary of the 2014 Gaza hostilities, calling for greater flow of material and funding to reverse Gaza’s de-development spiral. A summary infographic of reconstruction progress and remaining needs is also available.