<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">From: <b class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Sundararaman T</b> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:sundar@phmovement.org">sundar@phmovement.org</a>></span><br></div><br><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space">Please see this UN news piece. Please note that after discussion in the war and conflict TG, we have not closed the sign-on campaign for now. So many regions/groups from where we have not yet received endorsements have still time to sign on. It will be open at least for one more week,<div><br></div><div>Greetings</div><div>Sundar<br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif">Samer Jabbour <<a href="mailto:sj22@aub.edu.lb" target="_blank">sj22@aub.edu.lb</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b>IMPORTANT UN news article on the situation of Palestinian human rights defenders</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif">12 August 2021 at 9:41:40 AM IST<br></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif">PHM War & Conflict Thematic Circle <<a href="mailto:phm-war--conflict-thematic-circle@phmovement.org" target="_blank">phm-war--conflict-thematic-circle@phmovement.org</a>><br></span></div><br><div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(31,78,121)">Dear all,<span> </span><u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(31,78,121)"><u></u> <u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(31,78,121)">The case of our colleague in Palestine Shatha Odeh is discussed in this UN news piece. This is part of the work of Mary Lawlor, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders. <u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(31,78,121)"><u></u> <u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="color:rgb(31,78,121)">Arrests of Palestinian rights defenders part of ‘wider crackdown’<u></u><u></u></span></b></div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(31,78,121)"><a href="https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/08/1097602" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/08/1097602</a><u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(31,78,121)"><u></u> <u></u></span></div><br>
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