Civil Society and the Question of Palestine – NGO Action News – 22 October 2020
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22 October 2020
Middle East
- On 22 October, Israeli NGOs including Adalah – The Legal Centre for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, Bimkom – Planners for Planning Rights, Akevot, Emek Shaveh and Rabbis for Human Rights[1] issued a press release to denounce what they term “harassment” of United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) staff by Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The NGOs criticized the Ministry’s decision to stop issuing visas for international staff of OHCHR, which has been operating in the Occupied Palestinian Territory since 1996, and demanded for the decision to be reversed.
- On 21 October, Al-Haq[2] informed it participated in a consultation session organized by the Irish Coalition for Business and Human Rights, as part of the Coalition’s Human Rights and Environmental Due Diligence Project. Al Haq said the project aims at developing a policy paper and a draft legislation to call on the Irish government to initiate legislation on mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence in Ireland. The NGO briefed on corporations’ adverse impacts on the human rights of the Palestinian people, and their role in sustaining and strengthening the Israeli occupation.