Ref: 7/2008
Date: 26 February 2008
On the 60th Anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba, PCHR and Arab Organization for Human Rights Organize a Colloquium Titled “60 Years of Nakba… Prospects of Settlement or Conflict”
PCHR and the Arab Organization for Human Rights will organize a colloquium, titled “60 Years of Nakba… Prospects of Settlement or Conflict,” on the 60th of the Palestinian Nakaba (the uprooting of the Palestinian people from their land in 1948). The colloquium will be organized on 27 February 2007 in the offices of the Secretary General of the Arab Organization for Human Rights.
The agenda of the colloquium includes 4 interventions focusing on various issues. The first intervention will be submitted by Mr. Raji Sourani, Director of PCHR. It is titled “Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory… Prospects and Dimensions.”
The second intervention, titled “Palestinian Cause in the Balance of Regional and International Developments,” will be submitted by Dr. Mahdi ‘Abdul Hadi, Director of the Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs in Jerusalem.
The third intervention, titled “Judaism of the State of Israel: Philosophy and Reality,” will be submitted by Mr. Ameen Makhoul, Head of the Union of Arab NGOs.
Mr. Salah al-Din Hafez, Secretary General of the Union of Arab Journalists, will submit an intervention on prospects of settlement and conflict.
The colloquium will be facilitated by Mr. Mohammed Fa’eq, Secretary General of the Arab Organization for Human Rights.
