From 23rd to 29th of October in Geneva, Switzerland, the Global Campaign to Reclaim Peoples Sovereignty, Dismantle Corporate Power and Stop impunity has organized a Week of Peoples Mobilisation in occasion of the Second Session of the Open Ended Inter-Governmental Working Group (OEIGWG) at the Human Rights Council with the mandate to establish a Binding […]
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Action Alert: #FreeSalah Khawaja
Prominent Palestinian human rights defender Salah Al Khawaja has been arrested on the morning of October 26 at 2 am without being informed about charges or reasons for his arrest. We ask for your support! Please help us to address your MPs and governments requesting: they raise immediately concern about the arrest of Salah Khawaja […]
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Breaking news: Salah Khawaja held in Petah Tiwka #FreeSalah Al Khawaja
Salah Al Khawaja is currently held in Petah Tikwa interrogation centre, the military court has granted a 15 days interrogation period during which no access to legal council or family will be granted. Lawyers are now appealing the decision. The military court has already convened few hours after Salah's arrest yesterday morning, without the lawyer being […]
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Breaking news: Stop the wall member Salah Khawaja arrested
At 2 am last night, convoys of the IDF entered the old city of Ramallah and raided the house of 46 years old Salah Khawaja. The house was searched, computers and his phone were controlled and then destroyed, together with the furniture. Salah was eventually arrested and driven away in the army jeeps. The big […]
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Palestinian Civil Society: What Went Wrong?
Over the past two decades, social, political, cultural and institutional changes have swept across the occupied Palestinian territories. Many of the changes can be traced back to the Oslo process, such as the establishment of the Palestinian Authority, the redefinition of official Palestinian-Israeli relations, the involvement of international donors, and the radical shift in the […]
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Palestine at the People’s Forum on BRICS in Goa
Indian movements have called popular movements and organizations from BRICS countries as well as some other guests to Goa in the days ahead of the official summit of the leaders of the BRICS, the alliance between Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. Palestine was among the people and struggle to be represented and delegates […]
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Ethnic cleansing goes on in the Jordan Valley
On Sunday morning at 7:00 o’clock 4 bulldozers and dozens of Israeli soldiers demolished 34 tents, animal shelters, solar panels, and ovens in Ras al-Ahmar community, in the north of the Jordan Valley. Since the year 2000, this is the 4th time Israel destroys the properties of this community as part of its ethnic cleansing […]
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Las Políticas de Asentamiento, de Confiscación de tierra y las políticas de Desplazamiento siguieron intensamente en Septiembre
Las violaciones continúan en Cisjordania: 13 personas han sido asesinadas y 170 heridas, mientras las incursiones masivas y los arrestos ponen a 380 palestinos en prisión. Al mismo tiempo, fue anunciada la construcción de 2 nuevos asentamientos junto con 1000 nuevas unidades habitacionales en Cisjordania, incluyendo Jerusalén. Como siempre, Israel impone la violencia, los asesinatos y la opresión con una […]
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Las Políticas de Asentamiento, de Confiscación de tierra y las políticas de Desplazamiento siguieron intensamente en Septiembre
Las violaciones continúan en Cisjordania: 13 personas han sido asesinadas y 170 heridas, mientras las incursiones masivas y los arrestos ponen a 380 palestinos en prisión. Al mismo tiempo, fue anunciada la construcción de 2 nuevos asentamientos junto con 1000 nuevas unidades habitacionales en Cisjordania, incluyendo Jerusalén. Como siempre, Israel impone la violencia, los asesinatos y la opresión con una […]
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Peace Nobel Price, Shimon Peres’ legacy of war
Shimon Peres was a Nobel Peace Prize winner for the West but continues to be a War Criminal for Palestine. Shimon Peres died few days ago and is best known as an Israeli prince of peace. Peres certainly would have liked to enter history as a peacemaker, but that’s not how he should be remembered: indeed, […]