{"id":4869,"date":"2016-03-18T09:00:30","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T09:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=4869"},"modified":"2016-03-18T09:00:30","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T09:00:30","slug":"ngo-action-news-18-march-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/ar\/2016\/03\/18\/ngo-action-news-18-march-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"NGO Action News &#8211; 18 March 2016"},"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-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-border-sizes-top:0px;--awb-border-sizes-bottom:0px;--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;--awb-margin-top-small:0px;--awb-margin-right-small:0px;--awb-margin-bottom-small:20px;--awb-margin-left-small:0px;\"><h1 class=\"fusion-title-heading title-heading-left fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"margin:0;--fontSize:18;--minFontSize:18;line-height:1.4;\"><h1 class=\"main-title blue\">The 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. ±¬ÁÏÍø 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 <a href=\"mailto:dprngo@un.org\">email<\/a>.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_3_4 3_4 fusion-three-fourth fusion-column-first\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;width:74%; margin-left: 4%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><h2>18 March 2016<\/h2>\n<h3>The United States of America<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The Washington report on Middle East Affairs and the Institute for Research: Middle East Policy hosted a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arabamerica.com\/events\/israels-influence-good-or-bad-for-america\/\">conference<\/a>\u00a0on the role of the Israeli lobby on American policy \u201cIsrael\u2019s influence: Good or Bad for America?\u201d at the National Press Club on March 18 in Washington D.C.<\/li>\n<li>The 6th\u00a0Annual Houston\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arabamerica.com\/events\/the-6th-annual-houston-palestinian-festival\/\">Palestinian Festival\u00a0<\/a>presented by the Palestinian Cultural Centre will take place on March 19 and 20 in Houston, Texas.<\/li>\n<li>On March 20 in Winnetka, Illinois, Lake Shore Unitarian Society is organizing an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arabamerica.com\/events\/israeli-military-detention-no-way-to-treat-a-child\/\">event<\/a>\u00a0\u201cIsraeli Military detention: No way to treat child\u201d by guest speaker Jennifer Bing from AFSC.<\/li>\n<li>On March 20 at the convention centre in Washington D.C. \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arabamerica.com\/events\/protest-aipac-support-palestine\/\">Protest AIPAC! Support Palestine!<\/a>\u00a0event will take place\u201d, spearheaded by Al-Awda, the Palestinian Right to Return Coalition.<\/li>\n<li>On March 21, Women Voice for Peace in is organizing and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arabamerica.com\/events\/disarm-aipac-dc\/\">event<\/a>\u00a0in Washington D.C. called \u201cDisarm AIPAC &#8211; no more aid for Israel\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>On April\u00a025,\u00a0Beirut-based Palestinian documentary filmmaker Mai Masri will screen her first feature film,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/197005450669609\/\">3000 Nights<\/a>\u00a0at Columbia University, for its New York premiere.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Europe<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>On March 16, Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign organized Mostafah Salameh\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipsc.ie\/event\/dublin-2\">book launch<\/a>\u00a0and talk in Dublin. Salameh, a Palestine refugee, had just returned from an expedition to the South Pole.<\/li>\n<li>On March 16, Irish Pages and the Imagine Festival of Ideas and Politics organized scholar and writer Avi Shlaim\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipsc.ie\/event\/belfast-the-irish-pages\">conversation<\/a>\u00a0with Chris Agee on \u201cIsrael and Palestine: What Now?\u201d<\/li>\n<li>On July 16, Joint Advocacy Initiative and YMCA Palestine are organizing\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipsc.ie\/event\/palestine-journey-for-justice-palestine-2016-jai\">Journey for Justice \u2013 Palestine 2016<\/a>\u00a0in the West Bank.<\/li>\n<li>On March 21 at the Parliament of London, the Palestinian Return Centre and Friends of Palestine are organizing a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.palestinecampaign.org\/events\/palestinians-refugees-from-syria-the-forgotten-people\/\">seminar<\/a>\u00a0\u201cPalestinian Refugees from Syria &#8211; the forgotten people\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>On March 21 in London Palestinian Solidarity campaign is organizing a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.palestinecampaign.org\/events\/screening-side-road\/\">movie screening<\/a>\u00a0\u201cOn the Side of the Road\u201d by director Lia Tarachansky which looks at the fateful events of 1948.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Palestine<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>On March 15 Palestinian Centre for Human Rights organized a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/pchrgaza.org\/en\/?p=7953\">panel discussion<\/a>\u00a0to draft recommendations on \u201cLighting Gaza\u201d campaign. The panel was attended by the electricity sector, electricity experts, representatives from CBOs and journalists.<\/li>\n<li>The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights published its weekly (10-16 March)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/pchrgaza.org\/en\/?p=7970\">report<\/a>\u00a0on \u201cIsraeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>United Nations<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Palestine refugee and West Bank teacher, Hanan al-Hroub has been awarded the Global teacher prize, known as the \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.unrwa.org\/newsroom\/press-releases\/west-bank-palestine-refugee-wins-education-%E2%80%98nobel%E2%80%99-prize\">Education Nobel<\/a>\u201d for her work with traumatized children in the West Bank.<\/li>\n<li>The Working Group of CEIRPP organized a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7qWs3uSEwNU&amp;list=PL87igb1vaCC6avaWXhuOb-P1418Bh_OwZ&amp;index=1\">panel discussion<\/a>\u00a0on \u201cWomen\u2019s role in the search for Israeli-Palestinian peace\u201d on the margins of the 60th session of the Commission on the Status of Women, on March 14, with Sarah Taylor of Human Rights Watch, Hiba Husseini, legal advisor to the Palestinian negotiations team and Lihi Joffe, of the Coalition of Women for Peace.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-3 fusion_builder_column_1_4 1_4 fusion-one-fourth fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;width:22%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-widget-area awb-widget-area-element fusion-widget-area-1 fusion-content-widget-area\" style=\"--awb-title-size:13px;--awb-title-color:#333333;\"><div class=\"fusion-additional-widget-content\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ngo-action-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}