Panel Discussion: International Community, Palestinian Self-Determination, and End the Occupation: Responsibility and Accountability
Join us in the seventh panel discussion of the monthly webinars of the Jurists for Palestine Forum
Main Information:
- Date: Thursday 27th May 2021
- Time: 7:00-8:30 PM (Jerusalem Time), 5:00-6:30 PM (London Time).
- Registration fees: For the members of Jurists for Palestine Forum (You are not a member? Register below).
- Location: Online – Participants will be provided with a link prior to the webinar time.
- Last Day to Register: Wednesday 26th May 2021.
- Note: The panel discussion is in English, the forum will provide live interpretation into Arabic.
On the subject of the panel discussion:
In 1969, the international community, represented by the United Nations General Assembly, has officially recognized for the first time the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination. Since then, hundreds of resolutions have been issued by different UN agencies reaffirming this right, urging all states and UN agencies to support and assist the Palestinian people in the early realization of their right to self-determination, sovereignty and independence, and considering this as indispensable in acheiving a just peace in the Middle East. However, the means of this support have not been clarified, and the states’ legal responsibilities towards implementing this right and ending the prolonged occupation of Palestine deem to be not clear.
In this panel discussion, Jurists for Palestine Forum is tackling this sensitive issue while trying to answer the following questions:
- Is there a legal responsibility on the international community (individually or collectively) towards the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination and to end the occupation?
- What is this responsibility?
- what are the mechanisms that the international community can use – from legal perspective – to push an occupation to come to an end?
- How can accountability facilitate the international community’s efforts to ensure the realization of the Palestinian right to self-determination and to end the occupation?
The panel discussion Guest:
To raise this important debate, the Forum hosts the UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights Situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories:
- Dr. Michael Lynk: an independent expert and an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, Western University, in Ontario, Canada since 1999, and a former Associate Dean of the Faculty (2008-11). Professor Lynk has several publications on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and is currently serving as the UN special rapporteur on the human rights situation in the oPt since 2016. In 2015, Professor Lynk was named to the Mayor of London’s Honours List (Ontario,Canada) for his work on humanitarian issues.
The discussion will be moderated by
- Dr.Munir Nuseibah: Member of Law for Palestine Board of Trustees. A human rights lawyer and an assistant professor at Al-Quds University’s faculty of law; the director (and co-founder) of Al-Quds Human Rights Clinic; and the director of the Community Action Center in Jerusalem. He holds a B.A. degree in Law from Al-Quds University; an LL.M in International Legal Studies from the Washington College of Law of the American University in Washington DC and a PhD degree from the University of Westminster in London, UK. He also serves as a policy advisor at Al-Shabaka, The Palestinian Policy Network.
