NGO Action News – 13 June 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
13 June 2016

Europe

• On 21 June, gate48 and Palestine Link are organizing in Amsterdam a presentation of a report prepared by an interdisciplinary team of Dutch experts who visited the OPT in 2015. The evening will be moderated by Farah Karimi, general director of Oxfam Novib.

• On 25 June, Comité pour une Paix Juste au Proche-Orient is organizing a public demonstration in Luxembourg to commemorate the 12th anniversary of the Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice on the Construction of a Wall.

• On 30 June, the Educational Network for Human Rights in Palestine/Israel in Netherlands is organizing a lecture on “Palestinian Children in Israeli Detention” in Amsterdam.

Middle East

• On 15 June, American University of Beirut is holding a talk on “The US and Palestine, 1948” with Professor Irene Gendzier from Boston University, in Beirut.

• The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights issued its 2015 annual report on the human rights situation in the OPT. The Arabic version was published and is currently being translated to English.