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I'm bringing Richard Falk to Norwich:

Tuesday December 3rd, 6pm   UN SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR, DR RICHARD FALK, AT UEA, event hosted by UEA Greens.


Richard Falk - Palestine: the perspective of the UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories.
3 December at 18:00, for a prompt 18.15 start.
Lecture Theatre 3, UEA.
Chaired by Rupert Read, lead Green Party MEP-candidate in the European Elections, 2014.

In 2008, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) appointed Falk to a six-year term as a United Nations Special Rapporteur on "the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967."

 

Very excited about this... Falk is a great man...


 

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