Palestine in Focus: An Evening with Raji Sourani, Shawan Jabarin & Amira Hass

Date 

Add to My Calendar Tuesday, April 12, 2016 6:30pm to 8:30pm

Location 

NYU School of Law
Vanderbilt Hall, 40 Washington Square South
New York, NY 10012

Please join NYU Law School for a special evening with leading Palestinian human rights defenders Raji Sourani and Shawan Jabarin. In this rare visit to the United States, Raji and Shawan will provide timely perspectives from the ground in Gaza and the dynamic situation in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem. They will also discuss ongoing efforts to protect basic human rights and struggles for accountability for widespread violations, including before the International Criminal Court.They will be joined by Amira Hass, who has served as a correspondent for Haaretz in the Occupied Palestinian Territory since 1993.

Raji Sourani, Founder and Director, Palestinian Center for Human Rights, Gaza
Shawan Jabarin, Director, al-Haq, Ramallah
Amira Hass has been a journalist with Haaretz since 1989 and is currently a member of the Global Faculty in Residence at New York University Gallatin School
Moderated by Jamil Dakwar, Director of Human Rights Program at ACLU

Co-sponsored by Center for Constitutional Rights, Law Students for Human Rights (LSHR), Law Students for Justice in Palestine (LSJP), and National Lawyers Guild-NYU (NLG)

Last modified 

April 6, 2016