{"id":273481,"date":"2022-04-07T13:21:03","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T17:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=273481"},"modified":"2022-04-13T13:26:32","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T17:26:32","slug":"ngo-action-news-7-april-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/ngo-action-news-7-april-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"NGO Action News &#8211; 7 April 2022"},"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-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\" style=\"--awb-text-transform:none;\"><p><strong><u>Middle East<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On 6 April, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alhaq.org\/advocacy\/19829.html\">Al-Haq<\/a> published a joint press statement of the six organizations classified by Israeli Authorities as \u201cterror organizations\u201d in 2021, calling for countries and intergovernmental organizations to take concrete action against Israel\u2019s continued harassment and criminalization of Palestinian human rights defenders and civil society organizations. This statement was presented following a meeting organized on the same day by the Carter Center in Ramallah to support the affected organizations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>On 5 April, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alhaq.org\/advocacy\/19810.html\">Al-Haq<\/a> published a statement of the Palestinian Digital Rights Coalition welcoming the filing of a lawsuit in France by the International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH), the Human Rights League (LDH) and Palestinian-French lawyer and human rights defender Salah Hammouri against the Israeli Surveillance tech NSO Group. The statement further reads that NSO Group has been using this spyware illegally to hack and infiltrate Hammouri\u2019s phone. The statement further informs that the use of Israeli NSO Group&#8217;s Pegasus spyware had been blacklisted in countries including the US. Its use is part of a broader campaign of Israel to smear, shrink and minimize the space for civil society and human rights work, including through delegitimizing Palestinian human rights groups and human rights defenders. Several organizations published this statement as well, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jlac.ps\/details.php?id=pgpp4ia2321yu3hwrl3v7\">JLAC<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/7amleh.org\/2022\/04\/05\/the-palestinian-digital-rights-coalition-pdrc-welcomes-filing-of-a-lawsuit-against-the-israeli-surveillance-tech-nso-group\">7amleh<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.addameer.org\/news\/4741\">Addameer<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>On 4 April, the <a href=\"https:\/\/cihrs.org\/cihrs-and-partners-welcome-the-human-rights-committee-concluding-observations-on-israel-emphasizing-the-pre-existing-systematic-and-structural-discrimination-against-non-jews\/?lang=en\">Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies<\/a> (CIHRS) published an article supporting the United Nations Human Rights Committee\u2019s concluding observations on Israel. CIHRS informed that these observations highlighted pre-existing systematic and structural discriminations, following the Committee\u2019s review of Israel\u2019s implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. In their joint submission and subsequent engagement, CIHRS and partners called on the Committee to build on mounting recognition by global civil society, UN treaty bodies, and Special Procedures that Israeli officials are committing the crime of apartheid. Furthermore, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mezan.org\/en\/post\/24123\/UN+Human+Rights+Committee+calls+on+Israel+to+end+practices+of+collective+punishment+against+Palestinians+in+Gaza+and+ensure+accountability+for+persistent+human+rights+violations\">Al Mezan<\/a> issued an article supporting the adoption by the United Nations Human Rights Committee of its concluding observations on Israel, which call on Israel to lift the blockade and closure of the Gaza Strip, end practices of collective punishment, and ensure accountability for persistent Israeli human rights violations committed during successive military operations against Gaza.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>On 1 April, the <a href=\"https:\/\/pchrgaza.org\/en\/impunity-no-more-human-rights-council-adopts-resolution-to-ensure-accountability-of-war-criminals-in-opt\/\">Palestinian Centre for Human Rights<\/a> (PCHR) published an article welcoming the United Nations Human Rights Council Resolution A\/HRC\/49\/L.26, \u201cHuman rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and the obligation to ensure accountability and justice.\u201d PCHR recalled that this resolution stressed the imperative of credible, timely and comprehensive accountability for all violations of international law in order to attain justice for the victims and establish a just and sustainable peace. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alhaq.org\/advocacy\/19828.html\">Al-Haq<\/a> published an article as well to inform of its submission to 49th session of the UN Human Rights Council of several statements under several agenda items.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>Europe<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On 4 April, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eccpalestine.org\/israel-is-guilty-of-apartheid-and-annexation-says-uns-palestine-special-rapporteur-michael-lynk\/\">European Coordination of Committees and Associations for Palestine<\/a> (ECCP) published an article reporting that the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of Human Rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 published a report stating that \u201cIsrael has imposed upon Palestine an apartheid reality in a post-apartheid world.\u201d ECCP stressed that the Special Rapporteur joins organisations like Al Haq, Yesh Din, B\u2019Tselem, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International in concluding that Israel is guilty of the crime against humanity of Apartheid.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>North America<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On 13 April, the <a href=\"http:\/\/palestine.mei.columbia.edu\/events-spring-2022\/post-justice-exceptionalism-and-the-normalization-of-apartheid\">Center for Palestine Studies of Columbia University<\/a>, Scientists for Palestine and the Bisan Center for Research and Development will organize a lecture by Honaida Ghanim (Birzeit University) on \u201cPost-justice, exceptionalism, and the normalization of apartheid\u201d. This event is the second session of the Bisan Lecture Series and will explore the concept of post-justice as a product of unequal power relations and resting on in-deep oriental racism toward the Palestinian, facilitating colonization and apartheid through various tools that emphasize the \u201cexceptionalism\u201d of the colonizer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>On 4 April, <a href=\"https:\/\/peacenow.org\/entry.php?id=39318#.YkyCjtvMI2w\">Americans for Peace Now<\/a> (APN) published an article informing that the Israeli Supreme Court issued a ruling on 30 March, giving the residents of al-Walaja six more months to come up with an agreed-upon zoning plan, following previous refusals of the Israeli authorities to create such plan. The homes of 38 Palestinian families have been under demolition orders in this East-Jerusalem community, a situation affecting over 300 residents. APN emphasized that this decision resulted from American diplomatic pressure, following interventions by Members of Congress.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>On 31 March, the <a href=\"https:\/\/fmep.org\/resource\/palestinian-politics-arab-normalization-escalating-violence-a-deep-dive-with-dalia-hatuqa\/\">Foundation for Middle East Peace<\/a> (FMEP) published the podcast \u201cPalestinian Politics, Arab Normalization, &amp; Escalating Violence: A Deep Dive with Dalia Hatuqa\u201d. In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP speaks with preeminent journalist Dalia Hatuqa (multimedia journalist specializing in Israeli\/Palestinian affairs) about Palestinian domestic politics, the recent normalization \u201csummit\u201d in the Negev, and the long-feared\/long-predicted escalation of tensions\/violence in the entire area between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/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. The Committee and the Division for Palestinian Rights of the UN Secretariat provide the information &#8220;as is&#8221; without warranty of any <\/em>kind,<em> and do not accept any responsibility or liability for the accuracy, or reliability of the information contained in the websites linked in the newsletter.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1239,1512],"tags":[],"country":[],"committee-meeting":[],"class_list":["post-273481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-ngo-action-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273481"},{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=273481"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=273481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}