Translation Spanish: , Occupied Palestinian Territories

Palestinians face ???physical, social and psychological destruction???

New York. At a press briefing on November 12, JeanZiegler, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food,will discuss the findings of a new report condemning Israel forcreating a hidden humanitarian crisis through denying the right to foodand water to 3.8 million Palestinians in the Occupied Territories.

Afterreviewing reports by independent groups including the Center forEconomic and Social Rights (CESR), Habitat International, BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights, LAW andthe Association of 40, the UN Committee on Economic, Social andCultural Rights declared that it was "deeply concerned by accounts thatIsrael???s recent actions in the occupied territories had resulted in thewidespread and gross violations of Palestinians??? economic, social andcultural rights."

OnMonday September 18, from 12:30-1:30pm, protesters will gather outsidethe Council on Foreign Relations where Shlomo Ben-Ami, Israel???sMinister of Foreign Affairs, will be speaking. Ben-Ami???s talk, entitled???Israel???s Continuing Efforts to Achieve a Final Status Agreement withthe Palestinians,??? angered local activists who see the Israeligovernment???s policies and practices under the Oslo Peace Agreements asviolating basic Palestinian human rights and therefore precluding anypossibility of a just peace in the region.

OnFriday, April 14th, an unprecedented conference critiquing UnitedStates policy on the Middle East will take place on Capitol Hill.Entitled ???Great Expectations, Bitter Realities: Human Rights Abuse andEconomic Decline under the Oslo Process,??? the event will mark the firstpublic presentation of a comprehensive three-year research program inthe West Bank and Gaza Strip undertaken by the Center for Economic andSocial Rights (CESR), a New York-based human rights organization.