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Palestinian refugees’ right of return to be focus of upcoming London conference

BADIL Resource Center
14 October 2003
For Immediate Release


Debates, a conference, workshop and book launch will be part of a series of events in London from 5-10 November on Palestinian refugees’ right of return.  Participants will include Israelis, Palestinians, representatives of the world-wide Palestine Right of Return Coalition and UK Members of Parliament.  The public is invited to attend the following events:

 

Book Launch: Survey of Palestinian Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons

 

A 200-page overview of Palestinian refugees in the Middle East and throughout the world and internally displaced persons living in Israel.  Illustrated with charts, maps and photos.  Published by BADIL Resource Center, Bethlehem, Palestine

6 November 11:00-13:00

Atlee Suite, Portcullis House, Westminster 

Organized by:  Joint Parliamentary Middle East Council and

Al-Awda Palestine Right of Return Coalition

(for further information contact: 020-7832-1350)

 

Conference: “Right of return for Palestinian Refugees, the Real Road Map to Peace”

8 November 12:00-16:00 

Old Cinema Hall, University of Westminster    

309 Regent St., London W1R5AL (Oxford Circus tube station)

                                      

The ‘New History’ of 1948 and the Palestinian Nakba”

Dr. Karma Nabulsi, Nuffield College, Oxford

Prof. Avi Shlaim, St. Anthony’s College, Oxford

 

“One State of all its Citizens, including the Refugees:

The Future of Palestine/Israel?”

Prof. Anat Biletzki, Chair, Philosophy Dept.,

Tel Aviv University and Board Chair, B’tselem

Omar Barghouti, Palestinian political analyst and writer

 

The conference is organized by Al-Awda Palestine Right to Return Coalition, London in partnership with the International Coalition for the Right Return, Al-Awda U.K.  It will be chaired by Neil Gerrard, MP and Chair, All Party Parliamentary Group on Refugees and will conclude with a workshop on: “International Campaigning on the Right of Return” (Victoria Britain, chair; Jaber Suleiman, researcher and writer, Lebanon; Sharif Nashashibi, Arab Media Watch, London; Julia Wickham, Coordinator, Labour Middle East Council-LMEC).

                                                                                                                    

The above public events are being held within the framework of the 4th Annual Meeting of the Palestine Right of Return Coalition convening in closed session in London. This Meeting will bring together some 35 delegates of initiatives working world-wide to strengthen Palestinian refugees’ right of return in the context of a just and durable solution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This fourth annual meeting of the coalition aims to finalize the organizational framework for broad and democratic coordination of Palestine right-of-return activities and Palestinian exile communities and to set priorities for coordinated action in 2004.

 


For additional information, contact:  [email protected]; www.al-awda.org.uk;

or tel. 020-7900 6767. Please note that the organizers cannot arrange accommodation. Guest are advised to arrange their own accommodation. (For accommodation in youth hostels in London, contact the Youth Hostel Association: www.hya.org.uk).