Category: Press Releases

  • PCHR: PCHR Commends UNICEF Stance Against Illegal OPT Settlements

    To view original press release from PCHR, click here The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) welcomes the decision of UNICEF to reject any further support from Israeli businessman Lev Leviev, who owns companies actively involved in constructing illegal settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT). Lev Leviev, one of the richest men in Israel,…

  • DCI/PS welcomes UNICEF’s rejection of Leviev support

    To view original statement made by the Defence for Children International – Palestine section, click here DCI-Palestine welcomes UNICEF’s decision to reject any further support offered by Israeli businessman Lev Leviev, who owns companies that are responsible for building housing units in several settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt), in contravention of international humanitarian…

  • UNICEF Rejects Support From Israeli Billionaire Known for Constructing Settlements on Palestinian Lands

    Diamond Mogul, Lev Leviev, Facing Increasing Pressure for Human Rights Violations By Adalah-NY: The Coalition for Justice in the Middle East Media Contact: media@adalahny.org New York, NY, June 19, 2008 – A senior advisor to UNICEF’s Director said in a letter today that UNICEF will reject all partnerships with, or financial support from, Israeli billionaire…

  • Israeli forces assault and forcibly deport New Zealand peace activist once kidnapped in Iraq.

    Harmeet Sooden. Picture taken in January 2005 on a farm outside Jenin where he was helping to plant olive trees. Harmeet Sooden, a peace activist from New Zealand, was forcibly deported from Israel on the 18th of June at 1 am, after four days in jail. Sooden was told he was being deported because he…

  • ei: Quebec Student Federation Joins International Boycott Movement

    To view original article, published in Electronic Intifada, click here Press release, Tadamon, 9 June 2008 Across the world grassroots movements struggling in opposition to Israeli apartheid are marking the 60th year of the Palestinian Nakba (“catastrophe”) — 60 years of dispossession, ethnic cleansing and exile for Palestinians resulting from the creation of the state…