Join the IHRC’s UN team for the UN side panel on the Palestine Movement Crackdown
DATE: 24 June 2024
TIME: 11.00 am CEST.
Venue: Online IHRC TV or YouTube – in person Room XXV, UN Buildings, Geneva
Download the 2023 Report here
At this event, the SR Rapporteurs on the right to freedom of assembly and association Gina Romero will make an introductory remark, followed by Ms. Caterina Aiena, presenting the findings on her research on the current repression of Pro-Palestine movement in Europe, with a special focus on UK, Germany and France. The journalist and activist Susann Witt-Stahl and an IHRC Legal team representative will bring their first-hand experience on the high level of repression respectively in German and UK.
We are inviting selected CSO representatives, experts and other actors like yourself to attend. Your comments, questions and feedback at this event will be highly appreciated. Panellists will get a chance to respond during a question and answer session for all those who attend.
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Since the escalation of hostilities between Palestine and Israel on the 7th of October 2023, the governments of United Kingdom, France and Germany have reached an alarming level of repression against protests and dissent in support of Palestinians, with the targeting of activists, artists, protestors, political and civil organizations. Bound by a common design, all these countries have adopted an identical approach in quelling pro-Palestine protest: exceptional Islamophobic and racist counter-terrorism powers; illegal bans; brutal harassment; arbitrary arrests of human rights defenders; censorship; harassment; E-surveillance. Often, the repression is animated in part by right-wing officials using this moment as an opportunity to advance their own political agenda of anti-immigrant policies and to advance the same objective of censoring and criminalising critical opinion, shrinking civil society space and reducing the influx of migrants.
Using the UN special joint communication procedure, IHRC has therefore submitted in 2023 a communication reporting information on legislation and policy deemed to violate the right to freedom of opinion and expression, peaceful assembly and of association, and protection of human rights defenders. Since 2023 Report contains private information, a cleaned version has been made available here. The forthcoming 2024 report will be published soon.
The event is organised by IHRC. The event will take place online at www.ihrc.tv (if you simply wish to watch the event) and www.youtube.com/IHRCtv if you wish to make comments and ask questions during the event.
You can download the flyer here (PDF) (Jpeg below). The final agenda and speakers will be made public soon, please check regularly the event page online.
Notes to editors:
[1] The first report was published by IHRC in September 2023
[2] Caterina Aiena, the report’s author, has been working as a Policy Officer at IHRC. She is the author of other publications, including IHRC Communications to the International Criminal Court on Zakzaky’s case; ‘Saving Grace: State and Social Attacks on Migrants and Human Rights Defenders in Italy’, ‘The War in Yemen: Sacrificing Human Rights in the Name of an Illegitimate War’
[3] Watch the side event at the Human Rights Council in Geneva on the above links
For any further enquiry, please contact via email caterina[AT]ihrc.org
