Churches for Middle East Peace released a report on its conference entitled “For the Peace of Jerusalem” held in Washington D.C. from 6 to 8 May 2007. For further information, visit
The Foundation for Middle East Peace will hold a forum entitled “40 Years After the War of June 1967: Is Israeli-Palestinian Peace Possible?” at American University in Washington, D. C. on 5 June 2007. The commentators will be Yuval Rabin, the son of former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin; Amjad Atallah, Founder and President of Strategic Assessments Initiative; Aaron David Miller, Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center; and Ziad Asali, President of the American Task Force on Palestine. For further information, visit http://www.fmep.org.
Friends of Sabeel - North America will hold a conference entitled “Breaking Down the Wall of Silence: Voices We Need to Hear” in Berkley, California, on 24 and 25 August 2007. For further information, visit http://www.fosna.org.
The Palestine Center released an information brief entitled “Fifty-Nine Years of Dispossession” by Samar Assad, Executive Director of the Center. The brief is available on the Center’s web site at http://www.thejerusalemfund.org/palestinecenter.
Europe
Amnesty International UK, in London on 5 June 2007, will organize a lecture by Sir Geoffrey Bindman, Founder and Senior Consultant of Bindman and Partners and specialises in civil liberties and human rights, entitled “No Justice, No Peace: The occupation of Palestine 40 years on.” For further information, visit http://amnesty.org.uk.
Israel/Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem
B’Tselem has issued a report entitled “Where Silence Reigns: Israel’s Separation Policy and Forced Eviction of Palestinians from the Center of Hebron.” The report is available on B’Tselem’s web site at http://www.btselem.org.
United Nations
The Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People held the United Nations African Meeting on the Question of Palestine in Pretoria on 9 and 10 May 2007, followed by the United Nations Public Forum in Support of Israeli-Palestinian Peace on 11 May at the University of Pretoria. Press releases on the two events are available on the web site of the Division for Palestinian Rights at http://unispal.un.org/ngo/calendar2.htm.
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