Join us as we engage Michael Lynk in conversation with leading experts from Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and Palestinian civil society to discuss Palestine and apartheid under international law.
Featuring
• Michael Lynk, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law at Western University; Outgoing UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967
• Omar Shakir, Israel and Palestine Director, Middle East and North Africa Division at Human Rights Watch
• Saleh Hijazi, Deputy Regional Director of Middle East and North Africa at Amnesty International and Al-Shabaka Policy Member
• Rania Muhareb, Irish Research Council and Hardiman PhD Scholar at the Irish Centre for Human Rights in the School of Law, at the National University of Ireland, Galway; Policy Member of Al-Shabaka – The Palestinian Policy Network; Former legal researcher and advocacy officer at the leading Palestinian human rights organization Al-Haq
• Moderator: S. Priya Morley, Racial Justice Policy Counsel, The Promise Institute for Human Rights at UCLA School of Law
Featured Speaker
Rania Muhareb is a postdoctoral research fellow in the School of Law and Criminology at Maynooth University, and a visiting postdoctoral fellow at the Irish Centre for Human Rights in the School of Law at the University of Galway, where she completed her PhD in December 2024. Her doctoral research examined the mobilization of the apartheid framework by grassroots organizers and human rights organizations to pursue international justice and accountability in Palestine. Rania was the 2025 Palestine Postdoctoral Fellow at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University, where her research focused on Palestinians’ right to health, drawing on the Apartheid Convention, the Genocide Convention, and the settler-colonialism framework.
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