The Future of Palestinian Human Rights: Caabu & MBA Students & Alumni online panel discussion on the current and future status of the Palestinian struggle for freedom and justice

3 Jun 2021 18:00 - 19:00

Caabu and MBA Students and Alumni invite you to an online panel discussion on Thursday 3 June at 6pm (UK time) 7pm (CET) on the current and future status of the Palestinian struggle for freedom and justice. Register for The Future of Palestinian Human Rights: Online panel discussion on the current and future status of the Palestinian struggle for freedom and justice, here. The event will also be live-streamed on Caabu's Youtube channel which you can subscribe to here.

The continued struggle for Palestinian rights, justice and accountability, following the recent escalations in the occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel, not least following the forced dispossession and displacement of Palestinian families in the occupied East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah, has highlighted the immediate need to further address issues of infringements on Palestinian human rights and adherence and implementation of international law in the face of the ongoing Israeli occupation.

We'll be speaking with former Jordanian foreign minister Marwan Muasher, former Human Rights Watch MENA director Sarah Leah Whitson, and Senior Analyst at the International Crisis Group Tareq Baconi.

The panel will be moderated by prize-winning author, journalist, and war correspondent Janine Di Giovanni. Register here.

More details about the speakers are available below.

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When: Thursday 3 June 2021, 18:00 (UK time),19:00 (CET)

Where: Online. Sign up for the discussion here. The event will also be live-streamed on Caabu's Youtube channel which you can subscribe to here.

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About the speakers

Marwan Muasher served as Jordan's foreign minister (2002-2004), deputy prime minister (2004-2005), the first Jordanian ambassador to Israel in 1995, as well as an ambassador to the US. He played a central role in developing the Arab Peace Initiative and the Middle East Roadmap. He is now the Vice President for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he oversees research in Washington and Beirut on the Middle East.

He Tweets @MarwanMuasher.

Sarah Leah Whitson is an American human rights lawyer and Executive Director of DAWN (Democracy for the Arab World Now). She was previously the director of the MENA division of Human Rights Watch that recently published a report which found that the Israeli authorities are engaging in a policy of apartheid and persecution.

She Tweets @sarahleah1.

Tareq Baconi is currently the Israel/Palestine and Economics of Conflict Senior Analyst at the International Crisis Group. Tareq has published a book Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance.

He Tweets @TareqBaconi.

About the chair

Janine di Giovanni is one of the world’s most recognised war correspondents, author of several ground-breaking books, and the recent recipient of the prestigious Blake-Dodd prize awarded by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She is a senior fellow at Yale University's Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, a non-resident Fellow at The New America Foundation and the Geneva Center for Security Policy in International Security, and a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

She Tweets @janinedigi.

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