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DCIP director elected president of global child rights movement
Ramallah, November 12, 2022—The general director of Defense for Children International – Palestine was elected to lead the Defence for Children International global child rights movement during an international general….
Palestinian parents fear for their children as Israel’s far right rises
JERUSALEM — Rania Elias, a Palestinian mother of four, hasn’t had time to worry about Israel’s recent election, which is likely to produce the most right-wing government in the country’s….
Palestinian Organisations to COP27: Climate Justice Demands Free Civic Space
As the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) was launched in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt on 6 November, and as global leaders, governmental representatives and policy makers convened to negotiate….
Betty McCollum’s H.R. 2590 may finally hold Israel accountable
H.R. 2590 is a critical piece of legislation that will hold the government of Israel accountable for the abuse and cruel treatment of Palestinian children by Israeli military forces.
Bisan Lecture Series – Esther Duflo – Social Experiments to Fight Poverty: From Research to Policy
The next Bisan Lecture webinar will take place on Wednesday, November 9th at 6pm Palestine time (5pm Central European Time, 11am US Eastern time) – ATTENTION unusual schedule. We will have the pleasure to welcome Prof. Esther Duflo (MIT, Nobel laureate in Economic Sciences in 2019) who will speak on Good economics for warmer times. You can register for the event on Zoom here.
Winners of Palestine Book Awards 2022 announced
Middle East Monitor’s flagship annual literary awards ceremony – the Palestine Book Awards (PBA) – has entered its 11th year today, as awards were handed out to the winning authors and books in the much-awaited event
The war that canonized America’s hasbara playbook
The defensive line taken by the American-Jewish establishment during the 1982 Lebanon invasion solidified many of the methods that are deployed when Israeli violence makes headlines today.
Not a « vibrant democracy ». This is apartheid.
The right to vote and run for office is fundamental to democracy. Without it, there is no democracy worthy of its name. This right is enshrined in the Universal Declaration….
We must acknowledge that Israel’s policies against Palestinians amount to the crime of apartheid, say former European foreign ministers
Five former European foreign ministers have written calling for the acknowledgment that Israeli policies against Palestinians, amount to the crime of apartheid. In their piece (originally in French in Le Monde), Mogens Lykketoft, former Foreign Minister and UN General Assembly President, (Denmark), Erkki Tuomioja, former Foreign Minister (Finland), Ivo Vajgl, former Foreign Minister (Slovenia), Hubert Védrine, former Foreign Minister (France) and Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, former Cabinet Minister and Foreign Office Minister for the United Nations, Human Rights and the ICC (United Kingdom), denounce human rights violations against Palestinians and call on the international community to hold the Israeli government to account.
Coverage can also be found in Le Monde in French and in English, and in Delo in Slovenian.