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Speakers: MICHAEL LYNK, former UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine (online): Towards a lifting of the Gaza blockade – How to ensure an effective EU / UN collaboration in easing...

Join us for a live conversation with Prof. Michael Lynk, the 7th Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories (2016-2022), as we discuss his final...

The Israeli occupation authorities yesterday issued stop work orders for the homes being built by a group of Palestinians in the Artas villages in southern Bethlehem district, Wafa has...

The position of the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, has never been occupied by a woman. Until 1...

The Palestinian Return Centre (PRC) held a webinar to discuss the latest report by the former United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT),...

The killing of prominent Palestinian journalist and Al Jazeera correspondent, Shireen Abu Akleh, is a "potential war crime", UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine, Francesca Albanese, said in an interview with a...

The Israeli state supported by legal architecture promotes Jewish supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea perpetuating a racialised regime of dispossession, cruel domination and systematic fragmentation...

A new road for illegal Israeli settlers has been built by Israeli occupation forces in a Palestinian village near the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem, reported Wafa news agency. The...

Since 2021, criticism of Israel has focused heavily on its apartheid system and practices. The gradual awareness within the international community, since B'Tselem's declaration, which was followed by that...

UN human rights experts yesterday slammed Israel over its "apparent misuse of anti-terrorism legislation" to attack some of the leading civil society organisations, while calling on the international community...

Centrist politicians and commentators generally scorn the right wing for the polarisation of society, the coarsening of political discourse and the tribalism tearing communities apart. At the root of...

A 19-month-old Palestinian baby died in Gaza last week, after waiting five months for Israel to grant her permission to leave the blockaded enclave for treatment. Fatima Al-Masri, who...

UN Special Rapporteur Michael Lynk has issued one of his strongest condemnations yet of Israeli apartheid in a report to the 49th regular session of the UN Human Rights...

The Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, welcomed on Thursday the report issued by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, Michael Lynk, concluding that...

Thousands of academics who are members of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) have voted to endorse a boycott of Israel. The resolution "endorses the Palestinian call for solidarity...

A UN special rapporteur on Monday accused Israel of committing the crime of apartheid in the occupied Palestinian territories. UN-appointed investigator, Michael Lynk, has been investigating rights abuses in...

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh and Finance Minister Shukri Bishara met with World Bank senior directors this week in Ramallah, urging that pressure should be placed on Israel...

Israeli lobby group, NGO Monitor, has intensified its campaign against the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Palestine. With a new appointment for the position expected to...

"We have no more land left for confiscation. The settlers have turned into an entity organised to terrorise and deport Palestinians," the head of Palestine's Land Research Centre...

Last week, the UN Special Rapporteur Michael Lynk once again exposed the UN's inaction over Israel's international law violations. "On the fifth anniversary of the adoption of Resolution 2334...

UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, Michael Lynk, said on Thursday that the international community must hold Israel accountable for its occupation of Palestine....

The international community must hold Israel to account for its 54-year occupation of Palestine, a UN human rights expert said on Thursday, five years after the UN Security Council...

Nine UN human rights investigators have appealed to the European Union (EU) to pressure Israel to reverse its decision to classify six Palestinian NGOs as terrorist organisations. In a...

The UN General Assembly has become paralyzed, but has an important role in affecting international law on Palestine, top experts said on Monday and reported by Anadolu News Agency....

Current and former UN officials and global legal experts will come together on Monday to discuss the effectiveness of international law with regards to the Palestine issue, Anadolu News...

Law for Palestine, in partnership with Birzeit University and the Independent Commission for Human Rights (ICHR), will hold the first annual conference, entitled "Palestine and International Law, Effectiveness and...

Labelling Israeli settlement products "strengthens extremists, does not help promote peace in the region, and shows Belgium as not contributing to regional stability," according to Israel's Deputy Foreign Minister...

UN human rights experts expressed alarm, Wednesday, at the rising rate of violence toward Palestinians in the occupied Palestinian territory by Israeli settlers. "Settler violence has always been an...

"The Israeli settlements are a presumptive war crime under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, and should be treated as such by the international community," UN Special...

UN human rights experts, on Wednesday, condemned Israel's plan to build thousands of new housing units in illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. Israeli settlements...

Mohammed El-Halabi is a senior Palestinian aid worker with the global Christian charity World Vision. He was kidnapped by Israeli army thugs in June 2016 during a routine trip...

On behalf of the Don't Buy into Occupation Coalition (DBIO), we invite you to a virtual event to launch the first DBIO report "Exposing the financial flows into illegal Israeli settlements". The...