{"id":244707,"date":"2020-01-31T10:26:49","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T15:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=244707"},"modified":"2021-01-08T10:30:27","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T15:30:27","slug":"ngo-action-news-31-december-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/ngo-action-news-31-december-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"NGO Action News 31 December 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-background-position:left top;--awb-border-sizes-top:0px;--awb-border-sizes-bottom:0px;--awb-border-sizes-left:0px;--awb-border-sizes-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-padding-top:20px;--awb-padding-bottom:20px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last fusion-column-no-min-height\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-margin-bottom:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-1 fusion-sep-none fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-one\" style=\"--awb-margin-top:-60px;\"><h1 class=\"fusion-title-heading title-heading-left fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"margin:0;--fontSize:34;line-height:1.4;\"><h1 class=\"main-title blue\">Civil Society and the <span class=\"secondline\">Question of Palestine<\/span><\/h1><\/h1><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last fusion-column-no-min-height\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-margin-bottom:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-alert alert custom alert-custom fusion-alert-center notice fusion-alert-capitalize awb-alert-native-link-color alert-dismissable awb-alert-close-boxed alert-shadow\" style=\"--awb-background-color:#edf2fc;--awb-accent-color:#a0a0a0;--awb-border-size:1px;--awb-border-top-left-radius:0px;--awb-border-top-right-radius:0px;--awb-border-bottom-left-radius:0px;--awb-border-bottom-right-radius:0px;\" role=\"alert\"><div class=\"fusion-alert-content-wrapper\"><span class=\"alert-icon\"><i class=\" fa fa-exclamation-circle\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fusion-alert-content\">This page may contain links to third-party Web sites. The linked sites are not under the control of the United Nations and the United Nations is not responsible for the content of any linked site or any link contained in a linked site. The United Nations provides these links only as a convenience, and the inclusion of a link or reference does not imply endorsement of the linked site by the United Nations. This newsletter is a project of the Division for Palestinian Rights, and is intended to provide information on NGO activities relevant to the question of Palestine . NGOs interested in contributing information on their activities should communicate it by email.The Division reserves the right to make the final selection with regard to material to be included in this newsletter. It cannot take responsibility for the accuracy of the information.<\/span><\/div><button style=\"color:#a0a0a0;border-color:#a0a0a0;\" type=\"button\" class=\"close toggle-alert\" data-dismiss=\"alert\" aria-label=\"Close\">&times;<\/button><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-2 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p><strong>31 December 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Middle East<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">31 December\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.badil.org\/en\/publication\/press-releases\/92-2020\/5122-pr-en-311220-45.html\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">BADIL<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0concluded the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\"<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Palestinian Stories<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\"<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0project, which it implemented in cooperation with 6 grassroots institutions. The project included 27\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">female and\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">male youth participants<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0and<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0aimed to shed light on the ongoing daily violations that Palestinians suffer, strengthen communication between the Palestinian people, especially\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">in light of<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0the escalation of the fragmentation, separation and isolation policies practiced by Israel.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">On 28 December 2020,\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alhaq.org\/advocacy\/17724.html\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Al-Haq<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0sent letters to the High Representative of the European Commission, the Executive Vice President and European Union (EU) Commissioner for Trade, and EU Member States with diplomatic representatives in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), welcoming and calling on them to support the principled initiative of the 46 MEPs, representing most of the European Parliament's political groups, to ban trade with, and support for illegal settlements established in occupied territories.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"3\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">On 27 December,\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adalah.org\/en\/content\/view\/10207\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Adalah \u2013 t<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">he Legal\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">Center<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0for Arab Minority Rights in Israel<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0sent an urgent letter to senior Israeli officials demanding they act to immediately reverse the decision to block Palestinians designated by Israel as \"security prisoners\" from receiving the COVID-19 vaccine.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0The NGO\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">also called on Israel to refrain from infringing upon the health and human rights of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli facilities, as authorities have been doing on a consistent basis since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">On 24 December,\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.btselem.org\/settler_violence\/2020_olive_harvest\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">B'Tselem<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">published the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">short briefing\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\"2020 olive harvest \u2013 another year of severe, state-backed settler violence\"<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">which included an interactive map of the occupied West Bank\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">and<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">documented 39 incidents in which settlers attacked Palestinian harvesters, blocked their access to their own olive groves, stole crops, and damaged trees and farming equipment. The incidents occurred in villages throughout the West Bank \u2013 in the districts of Hebron, Ramallah, Nablus,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Salfi<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">t<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, and\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Qalqiliyah<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">On\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">22 December<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mezan.org\/en\/post\/23892\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">ten Israeli, Palestinian and international health and human rights organizations<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0issued a joint statement demanding that Israel provide necessary COVID-19 vaccines to Palestinian health care systems under its legal obligations as the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">occupying\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">P<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ower in the OPT. Signatories to the statement were\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Adalah \u2013 The Legal\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Center<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0for Arab Minority Rights in Israel<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Al\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Mezan<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Center<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0for Human Rights<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Amnesty International Israe<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">l,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">B'Tselem \u2013 The Israeli Information\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Center<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Gisha \u2013 Legal\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Center<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0for Freedom of Movement<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Medical Human Rights Network IFHHRO<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">MEDACT<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Physicians for Human Rights Israel<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The Palestinian\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Center<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0for Human Rights<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">On 21 December,\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hamoked.org\/Document.aspx?dID=Updates2207\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">HaMoked<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0informed that following\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">its petition to the Israeli High Court of Justice, the Israeli military allowed an East Jerusalem resident to enter Gaza to mourn her father with her mother and siblings.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">On\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">18 December<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pchrgaza.org\/en\/31-palestinian-european-human-rights-organisations-networks-trade-unions-demand-basque-company-caf-be-included-in-un-settlement-database\/\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Palestinian\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">Center<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0for Human Rights<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0informed that\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">31 prominent human rights organisations, networks and trade unions from Palestine and Europe ha<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">d<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0submitted a report to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Geneva demanding that<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0the Spanish company<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Construcciones<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0y\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Auxiliar<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0de\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Ferrocarriles<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0(CAF) be included in the UN database of businesses involved in Israel's illegal settlement enterprise for its role in expanding and operating Israel's Jerusalem Light Rail (JLR), entrenching Israel's illegal settlements in occupied and annexed Jerusalem.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"3\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">On\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">16 December\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.badil.org\/en\/publication\/press-releases\/92-2020\/5118-pr-en-161220-44.html\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">BADIL<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0release<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">d<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0its 25th working paper<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0\"<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Creeping Annexation: A Pillar of Zionist-Israeli Colonization Process in Palestine<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\", which<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0places the most recent developments of the annexation of large spans of the West Bank within the context of the Zionist-Israeli colonization of Mandatory Palestine since the late 19th century.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">On<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a014 December 2020,\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alhaq.org\/advocacy\/17639.html\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Al-Haq<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0launche<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">d<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0report \"D<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">eprived a Voice<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">: An Investigation into Shrinking Space in Area C\"<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0which examines the daily harassment of human rights defenders by Israeli\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">forces<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0and settlers. In doing so, the report examines how human rights defenders, including human rights field workers, journalists, medical personnel and volunteers, are targeted and silenced in Area C, in an attempt by Israel to shrink Palestinian space for critical human rights work.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Europe<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"19\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">On 15 December,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0the\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eccpalestine.org\/the-eus-funding-of-companies-listed-on-the-un-database\/\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">European Coordination of Committees and Associations for Palestine (ECC<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">P)<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0issued the briefing\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\"The EU's funding of companies listed on the UN database\"<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, which inter alia outlined that\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ECCP found out that six companies listed\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">in the UN database\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">for their direct complicity with illegal Israeli settlements\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">had\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">received European taxpayers' money through two research programs: the 7th Framework Programme (FP7) from 2007 to 2013, and the Horizon 2020 programme from 2014 to 2020.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2\"><p><em>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. 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