From 10:00 am until 12:30 pm
UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People
Virtual High-level Event
"Apartheid, International Law, and the Occupied Palestinian Territory"
A conversation between Zeid Ra’ad Al-Hussein, International Peace Institute’s President and Chief Executive Officer, and Agnès Callamard, Secretary General of Amnesty International”
Thursday, 16 June 2022, 10:30 am - 12 pm (NY Time)
The UN Palestinian Rights Committee will organize the Virtual High-level Event on “Apartheid, International Law, and the Occupied Palestinian Territory” on Thursday, 16 June 2022 from 10:30 a.m. to 12.00 p.m. (New York Time), via WebEx. The event will also be livestreamed on UN Web TV.
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The event will be opened by H.E. Cheikh Niang, Chair of the Committee and Permanent Representative of Senegal to the UN, and will consist in a panel conversation between Mr. Zeid Ra’ad Al-Hussein, President and Chief Executive Officer of the International Peace Institute, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and Member of The Elders and Ms. Agnès Callamard, Secretary General at Amnesty International.
The panellists will discuss Amnesty International’s landmark 2022 report entitled “Israel’s Apartheid Against Palestinians: Cruel System of Domination and Crime Against Humanity” in which the organization shared its findings and conclusions regarding Israeli policies and practices. They will also discuss the reactions that the report generated as well as the way forward.
Participants will consist of Committee Members/Observers and the panellists. All Member States, intergovernmental and civil society organizations as well as the public and media will be invited to follow the event and pose questions. While participation in the virtual platform will be limited to UN Member and Observer States and panellists, the general public can send their questions via the Committee Facebook page, Twitter account, the email dpr-meeting@un.org and WhatsApp (+1 646 421 0579).
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