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03/03/2009
Bil’in is calling on supporters from all over the world to join them in solidarity actions during the court case in Canada. The village also needs your help setting up and financing a legal fund to fight the court case, which currently is in need of approximately $50,000.
02/02/2009
In the wake of the Israeli atrocities in Gaza it is vital that we continue to resist against the Israeli occupation. This February has marked the fourth anniversary of the weekly non-violent protests against the construction of the Apartheid Wall in Bil’in.
Bil’in has become a symbol both of the theft of land across Palestine and of the power of non-violent grassroots movements in building local and international resistance to Occupation.
We invite you to participate in the fourth Bil’in conference on grassroots popular resistance in April 2009.
21/01/2009
Approximately 300 among NGOs and associations ask the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to open an investigation on the war crimes committed by Israel in Gaza. Our support is indispensable. Sign and circulate this urgent «universal petition».
06/12/2008
Two members of the popular committee of Bil’in village against the wall and the settlements, Abdullah Abu Rahma and Mohammed Khatib will be in Germany, from 5-8 of December, to be awarded the Carl Von Ossietzky Medal as representatives of the popular committee. The prize is awarded by the board of trustees of the International League for Human Rights. The prize is shared with the Anarchists Against the Wall, for the joint struggle with the village.
The prize ceremony will take place on December 7th, 2008. from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. in the Haus der Kulturen (House of World Cultures) der Welt 9, Berlin.
Following the ceremony and Berlin, Abu Rahma and Khatib will be in Paris from 8-12 of December, to mark International Human Rights Day.
14/10/2008
[International League for Human Rights] By honoring Anarchists Against the Wall and the Bil’in Popular Committee, the Board of Trustees of the International League for Human Rights highlights the organizations’ common conviction that helps them surmount great obstacles and dangers in their mutual ideal of a worthy - and shared - future. Their exemplary activities are – in the age of globalization - of great significance for the realization of the ideals of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights - well beyond Israel/Palestine.