NGO Action News – 25 July 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
25 July 2016

Europe

• Le Comité pour une Paix Juste au Proche-Orient will hold its next meeting in Luxembourg on 21 September.

Middle East

• On 21 July, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights issued its weekly report on human rights violations (14-20 July 2016).

Americas

• On 25 July, American Service Friends Committee held a roundtable discussion entitled “Progressive for Palestine. Is the US ready to rethink Policy on Israel?” Speakers included U.S. Video recording is available here.

• On 26 July, the Jerusalem Fund will hold a panel discussion entitled “Overcoming Restrictions: Resistance through Publication & Expression” at the Palestine Center in Washington, D.C. The panel is part of lecture series that explore the freedom of movement.

• On 2 September, the Jerusalem Fund will hold the exhibition “Bright Stars of Bethlehem: Artists of Palestine ” in Washington, D.C.

• On 8 September, the Israel Palestine NGO Working Group will hold its next meeting in New York.

• On 11 November, the Jerusalem Fund of the Palestine Center will hold the 2016 Palestine Center Annual Conference: “The Palestinians: History, Agency, and Future Prospects” in Washington, D.C.

United Nations

• On 14 July 2016, representatives from the non-governmental human rights organizations Al-Haq and Al Mezan participated in the 2016 High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development at the United Nations in New York.