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South Africa session – Full Findings
Samstag, 5. November 2011:
Archbishop Desmond Tutu opens the 3rd International Session of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine which took place in Cape Town on 5-7 November 2011 and focus on “Are Israel’s practices against the Palestinian People in breach of the prohibition on apartheid under International Law”
Raji Sourani gives a presentation on “Palestinian right to self Determination”.
Max du Plessis gives a presentation on “the treaty and customary international law status of the prohibition on apartheid in international law”.
John Dugard gives a presentation on how “the apartheid regime operated in law and policy in South Africa, and provide an overview of Israeli law and policy with respect to the prohibition on apartheid.”
David Keane gives a presentation on “the broad construction given to the term ‘racial’ in the context of ‘racial discrimination’ in International Law”.
Ingrid Jaradat gives a presentation on “Palestinian identity and Palestinians as a distinct racial group for the purposes of the definition of apartheid”.
Ran Greenstein gives a presentation on “the extent to which the legal definition of apartheid, based on the notion of racial domination, applies to the practices of the oppressing group in Israel/Palestine”.
Joseph Schechla gives a presentation on “discriminatory elements of the Israeli legal system and the separate legal systems and courts for Jewish-Israeli settlers and Palestinians in the occupied territories”.
Emily Schaeffer gives a presentation on “discriminatory elements of the Israeli legal system and the separate legal systems and courts for Jewish-Israeli settlers and Palestinians in the occupied territories”.
Marianne Blume gives a presentation on “whether there is a case of deliberate imposition on a racial group or groups of living conditions calculated to cause its or their physical destruction in whole or in part”.
Mahmoud Hassan gives a presentation on “the denial of the right to freedom of movement, of residence, to leave and return to one’s country, to a nationality, to work, to form recognised trade unions, to education, to freedom of opinion and expression, and to freedom of peaceful assembly and association”.
Rafeef Ziadah gives a presentation on “Exploitation of labour of members of a racial group or groups in relation to the facts that Israel has raised barriers to Palestinian employment inside Israel since the 1990s, and that Palestinian labour is now used extensively only in the construction and services sectors of Jewish-Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories”.
Mohammed Khatib, Palestinian, from Bil’in, in the West Bank, gives a presentation for the Russell Tribunal on Palestine on “Persecution in regards to Israel’s policies in the West Bank”
Alan Boesak gives a presentation on “extra-judicial killing, torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, and arbitrary arrest and illegal imprisonment during Apartheid South Africa”.
Sonntag, 6. November 2011:
Luciana Coconi gives a presentation on “denial of the right to freedom of movement, of residence, to leave and return to one’s country, to a nationality, to work, to form recognised trade unions, to education, to freedom of opinion and expression, and to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.”
Lea Tsemal gives a presentation on “denial of the right to freedom of movement, of residence, to leave and return to one’s country, to a nationality, to work, to form recognised trade unions, to education, to freedom of opinion and expression, and to freedom of peaceful assembly and association”
Zwelinzima Vavi talks about the conditions of employment under Apartheid South Africa
Jeff Halper talks about the creation of separate reserves and ghettoes, the prohibition of mixed marriages, and the expropriation of landed property in Israel/Palestine
Jamal Jumaa talks about the creation of separate reserves and ghettoes, the prohibition of mixed marriages, and the expropriation of landed property in Israel/Palestine
Haneen Zoabi talks about the arrest, imprisonment, travel bans and the targeting of Palestinian parliamentarians, national political leaders and human rights defenders, the closing down of related organisations, and the current legislation being enacted to punish those who initiate or promote boycott measures for opposition to Israeli domination
Shawqi Issa talks about the arrest, imprisonment, travel bans and the targeting of Palestinian parliamentarians, national political leaders and human rights defenders, the closing down of related organisations, and the current legislation being enacted to punish those who initiate or promote boycott measures for opposition to Israeli domination
Rafaelle Maison talks about the status of persecution as a crime against humanity
Raji Sourani talks about the crime of persecution in regards to Israel’s actions in the Gaza Strip
Jazi Abu Kaf talks about the crime of persecution in regards to Israel’s actions towards the Bedouins in the Naqab (Negev) desert
Vavi Zwelinzima unplanned intervention in support of Haneen Zoabi after she was threatened by another Israeli MK. (that asked the Knesset to revoke her citizenship)
A representative of Al-Haq talks about the denial of the right to freedom of movement, of residence, to leave and return to one’s country, to a nationality, to work, to form recognised trade unions, to education, to freedom of opinion and expression, and to freedom of peaceful assembly and association
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