European Parliament
Delegation for relations with Palestine
Subcommittee on Human Rights
Exchange of views on the human rights situation in the Gaza Strip
Thursday 26 April 2018, 14.00 – 16.00, ASP 3G3
Draft Programme
Opening remarks by:
Pier Antonio Panzeri, Chair of the Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI)
Neoklis Stylikiotis, Chair of the Delegation for relations with Palestine (DPAL)
Speakers:
Matthias Burchard
Director, UNRWA Representative Office to the European Union
Pierre-Richard Prosper, Former US State Department Ambassador at large for war crimes issues (TBC)
Prof John Dugard, Former Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Emeritus Professor of Law, University of Leiden, UK
Dr Aimee Shalan, Medical Aid for Palestinians, London
Col Desmond Travers, Member of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict and was co-author of the Goldstone Report. Travers is a retired Colonel of the Irish Army. He served in various UN and EU peace missions in the Balkans and in the Middle East. He is currently Vice-President of the Institute for International Criminal Investigations. IICI is devoted to training and related support resources in the investigation of war crime and genocide
Mahmoud Abu Rahma, Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, Gaza Strip
Q & A with MEPs
Concluding remarks by the DROI Chair and the DPAL Chair
The exchange of views can be followed online:
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/activities/committees/homeCom.do?language=EN&body=DROI
Registration to the meeting please mail: Full Name/Date of Birth/Nationality/Passport or ID-number
to dpal@ep.europa.eu