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UNSR Urges Israel Reverse Eviction Orders |
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By: OHCHR |
| 11 May 2021 |
Israel/OPT: UN expert calls for reversal of Israel’s eviction order against 16 Palestinian families
GENEVA—A UN expert called today on Israel to reverse its eviction orders for Palestinian families living in Occupied East Jerusalem, calling them part of an alarming pattern to change the demography of the city.
Israeli courts have, over
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Legal Letter to ICC on Palestine, Sheikh Jarrah |
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By: Legal Scholars & Advocates |
| 11 May 2021 |
Ms. Fatou Bensouda,
Prosecutor
Office of the Prosecutor International Criminal Court
Oude Waalsdorperweg 10
The Hague,
The Netherlands
11 May 2021
Re: Situation in Palestine: Sheikh Jarrah – Communication from Legal Scholars & Advocates
Dear Prosecutor Bensouda,
The world is watching as a war crime unfolds in front of our very eyes, and as those who are entrusted with
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West Bank: Demolition and Displacement Data |
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By: OCHA |
| 10 May 2021 |
Data on demolition and displacement in the West Bank
The figures below reflect the demolition of Palestinian-owned structures and the resulting displacement of people from their homes across the West Bank since 2009. Together with other policies and practices, the threat of destruction of homes and sources of livelihood contributes to
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Sheikh Jarrah: Israel’s Jerusalem Claims Unravel |
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By: Evan Gottesman, Forward |
| 10 May 2021 |
The fights over Sheikh Jarrah reveal the folly of relitigating Israel’s founding (opinion)
Defending the pending evictions of as many as 300 Palestinian residents from East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, Jerusalem Deputy Mayor Aryeh King rhetorically asked: “If you are the owner of the property, and someone was squatting on your property,
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Jerusalem: Israeli Eviction Violence Injures 100s |
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By: Kenny Stancil, Common Dreams |
| 08 May 2021 |
Hundreds of Palestinians Protesting Evictions in Jerusalem Injured in `State-Sanctioned Campaign of Israeli Violence`
"Israel`s violence has a clear purpose: ethnically cleanse Jerusalem of Palestinians to allow Israeli settlers to take over Palestinian homes."
More than 200 Palestinians were wounded and at least one partially blinded over night in East Jerusalem when
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Consultation: General Comment on Land & ESCR |
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By: HIC-HLRN |
| 07 May 2021 |
Consultation on the draft General Comment on Land and Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Tuesday, 11 May 2021, 14:30 – 16:30 CEST (live on Zoom from Villa Moynier, Geneva)
Everyone needs land – to be enjoyed as a requisite of human life on this planet.
Currently, the UN Committee on Economic, Social and
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Jerusalem: Sheikh Jarrah Forced Evictions |
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By: Yumna Patel, The Wire |
| 01 May 2021 |
Inside the Campaign to Prevent the Forcible Removal of Palestinians in Sheikh Jarrah
In a matter of just two weeks, six Palestinian families from the occupied East Jerusalem neighbourhood will be thrown out of their homes and replaced with Israeli settlers.
The fate of the families from the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood in
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NGOs Report on Israel`s Settler-colonial Apartheid |
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By: hlrn |
| 30 April 2021 |
In a Joint Submission to UN Special Rapporteur, Organizations Highlight the Role of Israel’s Colonial Settlements in the Entrenchment of its Settler-Colonial and Apartheid Regime
Today, the Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Council (PHROC); Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies; and Habitat International Coalition – Housing and Land Rights Network submitted a
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Call for Inputs to CESCR General Comment on Land |
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By: HIC-HLRN |
| 28 April 2021 |
CESCR calls for written contributions to the draft general comment on Land and Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights is developing a general comment on Land and Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR). The purpose of this General Comment is to clarify the specific
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Palestine @ UN Indigenous Issues Forum |
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By: HIC-HLRN |
| 24 April 2021 |
Webinar Invitation Toward Goal 16 of Sustainable Development in Palestine: The Realisation of the Palestinian Right to Self-Determination, and Ensuring Accountability
Date: Tuesday, 27 April 2021
Time: 18:00-19:30 Palestine time (11:00 - 12:30 EST)
Location: Online – Registered participants will receive the Zoom link via email
Register at: https://bit.ly/3v9SyoX
Facebook event: https://fb.me/e/14Qau3t1c
Moderator
Ms. Marya Farah,
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Abahlali baseMjondolo Palestine Solidarity |
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By: Abahlali baseMjondolo press statement |
| 24 April 2021 |
The Blood of the Palestinians is our Blood
Our struggle is rooted in the principle that the recognition of our full and equal humanity is non-negotiable. We also insist that this principle is applied to all people everywhere. There can be no group of people whose humanity is denied.
As everyone knows
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Earth Day Embraces Palestinian Land Day |
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By: Land Research Center (LRC) – Jerusalem |
| 22 April 2021 |
Earth Day Embraces Palestinian Land Day
Statement Issued by Land Research Center on the Occasion of Earth Day, 22 April 2020
When a large oil spill on California’s Pacific Coast triggered U.S. Senator Gaylord Nilson to lead a massive popular campaign that attracted 20 million protestors in the first Earth Day in
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Call for inputs: Transitional justice in colonial contexts |
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By: HIC-HLRN |
| 22 April 2021 |
Call for inputs – Transitional justice measures and the legacy of human rights violations in colonial contexts
The Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence, Mr. Fabian Salvioli, to the 76th session of the General Assembly, in October 2021, to examine the question
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Al-Haq International Law Online Summer School |
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By: Al-Haq |
| 21 April 2021 |
Al-Haq International Law Online Summer School Program
31 May–12 June 2021
Al-Haq Center for Applied International Law is pleased to announce its Seventh International Law Summer School for professionals, legal researchers, post-graduates and academics in the fields of international law and human rights. The 2021 program will run entirely online through
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CSM Denounces New CFS Food Systems & Nutrition Guidelines |
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By: Civil Society and Indigenous Peoples` Mechanism for relations with the UN Committee on World Food Security |
| 20 April 2021 |
Rome, 20 April 2021 – Civil society and Indigenous Peoples’ organisations share with deep regret their collective and critical assessment of the Voluntary Guidelines on Food Systems and Nutrition (VGFSyN). The final VGFSyN present a lost opportunity to guide a much-needed radical transformation of food systems around the globe and
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Western Sahara: Open Letter to UN SG |
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By: Geneva Support Group for the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights in Western Sahara |
| 16 April 2021 |
Open Letter to the UN Secretary General
Geneva / Bir Lehlu, 16 April 2021
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will
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UN Special Rapporteur to Consult with CSOs |
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By: HIC-HLRN/OHCHR |
| 25 March 2021 |
CSO Consultation with UN Special Rapporteur on Housing
Discrimination and Spatial Segregation
Public consultation by the Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing with civil society organizations
Monday, 12 April 2021, 15:00–16:30 CET
Objective
The purpose of this public consultation is to collect input and recommendations from Civil Society Organizations in preparation
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Arab CSO Forum on sustainable development |
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By: HIC-HLRN |
| 23 March 2021 |
We invite you to attend the regional meeting of civil society organizations on #sustainable development in the Arab region. Representatives of civil society and experts in Arab countries will participate in the meeting to discuss efforts to achieve sustainable development in the Arab region and the challenges it faces.
The "regional
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World ‘needs climate watchdog’ |
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By: Aleida Rueda, SciDevNet |
| 13 March 2021 |
World ‘needs climate watchdog’ to keep eye on govts
Pledges for action outlined in the Glasgow Climate Pact will be meaningless without accountability and transparency measures, says Camila Isabel Zepeda Lizama, a 36-year-old economist who led Mexico’s negotiation team at the COP26 climate summit.
In the closing plenary, Zepeda was one of
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Colorado Landowner Returns Ute Land |
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By: Return to Now |
| 10 March 2021 |
Generous Colorado Landowner Returns Ancestral Land to Tribe
After discovering Native American ruins on his land, white man gives it, and his house, back to the tribe that once lived there
A Colorado landowner was inspired to return his land to Native Americans three years after purchasing it and being “haunted” by
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