Palestine at the crossroads

Palestinian National Day event 2020
presented by the Coalition for Justice and Peace in Palestine (CJPP)

Sunday, 15th November, 7.30 pm to 8.30pm (AEST)

Webinar with Shawan Jabarin, General Director of Al Haq speaking on

  • Continuing land theft, settlements and annexation
  • Israel deals with UAE, Bahrain and Sudan
  • the impact of Covid 19 and ongoing Israeli human rights violations

MC – Dr Nahed Odeh, convenor CJPP

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Shawan Jabarin is the General Director of Al-Haq and a Secretary General of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH). In 2011, Jabarin was appointed to the Human Rights Watch Middle East Advisory Board and in 2013, he was elected as a Commissioner for the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), and in 2018, he was elected as executive committee member for the ICJ. Shawan Jabarin was the first Palestinian to be recognized by Amnesty International as a “prisoner of conscience” after having spent years under administrative detention in Israeli jails without charge or trial. He is a recipient of the Reebok Human Rights Award in 1990 for his defense of the freedom of expression and human rights. He received his BA in Sociology from Birzeit University and an LLM in International Human Rights Law from the National University of Ireland, Galway. He also served as a part-time lecturer at Birzeit University, Palestine.