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Date(s) - Saturday, April 24, 2021
10:00 am - 11:30 am
The Ongoing Nakba
Lubnah Shomali
“The Ongoing Nakba” is terminology coined by BADIL to describe the legal and political situation in Palestine which is a consequence of a colonial and apartheid regime created by Israel to dominate and oppress the Palestinian people. The presentation consists of BADIL’s comprehensive rights-based approach to the Question of Palestine, according to international law, with a focus on forced population transfer, refugees and internally displaced persons, and the failure of the international community to address the protection gap.
About Lubnah Shomali: As a Palestinian human rights defender/activist, Ms. Shomali has a Bachelor’s degree in Molecular Biology and a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Michigan. Born in Palestine but raised in the USA, Ms. Shomali relocated with her family to her hometown in the West Bank in the summer of 2008. She worked with Beit Sahour Municipality for three years as their International Relations Officer before signing on with BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights in 2012. As Advocacy Manager, she is responsible for overseeing donor relations, fund development, research and advocacy.
About BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights: BADIL is a Palestinian human rights organization established in 1998, dedicated to defending and promoting the rights of Palestinian refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs), regardless of their geographic location, according to the frameworks of international humanitarian, human rights and refugee law. BADIL is one of the leading and respected resources on historic and contemporary forcible transfer and the Palestinian refugee and IDP issue.
BADIL has special consultative status though a partnership framework with UN ECOSOC, allowing it and its partners to engage regularly and assertively with all UN mechanisms. BADIL works to engage and empower Palestinian and international civil society to advance a rights-based solution according to international law. Learn more about BADIL at http://badil.org/en/
Please direct questions about this event to mepn@mepn.org.
Thank you to our forum sponsors, Jewish Voice for Peace – Twin Cities, Northfielders for Justice in Palestine/Israel
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