2025 Conference on the Question of Jerusalem
“Palestinian Oppression and Displacement in Jerusalem in the Shadow of the War:
A microcosm of the situation throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory”

Convened by the
Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP) and
the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)
Dakar, Senegal
9 July 2025

The 2025 Conference on the Question of Jerusalem, organized jointly with the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), will take place in Dakar, Senegal. The event will reflect on the challenges faced by the Palestinian people in occupied East Jerusalem in terms of displacement, dispossession and violence and will provide the platform to assess the wider oppression across the OPT and for the unresolved legacy of the Nakba.

The Conference will provide a space to update and coordinate on the implementation of GA resolution ES 10-24 among the Committee and OIC Member States. Taking place ahead of the High-Level International Conference for the Peaceful Settlement of the Question of Palestine and the Implementation of the Two-State Solution, co-chaired by France and Saudi Arabia, the conference also offers a timely opportunity to provide a space for consolidated preparatory steps, including to coordinate actions by the Committee and the OIC as well as to hear voices from West Africa and the continent, in addressing the challenges in the context of East Jerusalem and the broader Israeli occupation of the Palestinian Territory. Its key objective is for the Committee and OIC Member States to sustain the political momentum and identify practical avenues for coordinated action to end the occupation and achieve a peaceful solution of the conflict.

Please register for the conference here. 

PROGRAMME

8 a.m. Registration 

9 – 10 a.m. OPENING SESSION 

• Representative of Senegal 
• Representative of the UN, SRSG/ UNOWAS Leonardo Santos Simão 

• CEIRPP Chair, H.E. Ambassador Coly Seck 
• Representative of the OIC 
• Representative of the State of Palestine, H.E. Min. Riyad Mansour 

10 a.m. – 12 p.m. PLENARY I: The Situation in Jerusalem and the Wider OPT 

Mr. Munir Nusseibeh 

Al Quds University Human Rights Clinic 

Situation in East Jerusalem in the shadow of the Gaza war 

Mr. Umar Al-Ghubari 

Palestinian educator, Zochrot  

Injustices inflicted on Palestinian Jerusalemites  

Ms. Fatima Sheikh Ali 

Field Researcher, Al-Haq 

Situation in schools, hospitals, in East Jerusalem and throughout the OPT 

Mr. Mahmoud Nawajaa 

General Coordinator of the Palestinian BNC 

Linkage of situation in Jerusalem with West Bank 

2 – 4.45 p.m. PLENARY II: States Obligations and Avenues of Action 

Mr. Amr Hamzawy 

Senior Fellow & Middle East Programme Director 

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace 

OIC action at diplomatic and Member State level 

Mr. Seydi Gassama 

Director Amnesty International Senegal 

Ongoing actions in West Africa  

Ms. Zukiswa Wanner 

Writer and Member of PSC Johannesburg 

The Pan-African Palestine Solidarity Network 

4.45 – 5 p.m. CLOSING SESSION 

• Representative of the State of Palestine, H.E. Min. Riyad Mansour 
• Representative of Senegal 

 5 p.m. PRESS CONFERENCE