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SUMMARY: Nonviolent Resistance: Lessons from Issa Amro
DESCRIPTION: Issa Amro is a Hebron-based Palestinian human rights defender\
 , activist\, and Nobel Peace Prize nominee who has dedicated his life to th
 e use of nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience to fight Israel’s occ
 upation in the West Bank. In 2007\, Issa founded Youth Against Settlements 
 which seeks to end the expansion of illegal settlements in the […]
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: <p>Issa Amro is a Hebron-based Palestinian hu
 man rights defender\, activist\, and Nobel Peace Prize nominee who has dedi
 cated his life to the use of nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience t
 o fight Israel’s occupation in the West Bank. In 2007\, Issa founded Youth 
 Against Settlements which seeks to end the expansion of illegal settlements
  in the West Bank through nonviolent popular struggle and civil resistance.
 </p><p>In 2010\, Issa was declared a “human rights defender of the year in 
 Palestine” by the Office of the UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights. La
 st year\, the New York Times called him “one of the followers of Martin Lut
 her King\, Jr.\,” and the New York Times Magazine called him “the Palestini
 an Gandhi.” Amnesty International and the United Nations have also recogniz
 ed Issa as a Human Rights Defender. In 2023\, he received the HLS Advocates
 /Harvard Human Rights Journal’s Global Advocacy Award.</p><p>Join Advocates
  for Human Rights\, the Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World and 
 the Middle Eastern and North African Law Students’ Association for a conver
 sation with Issa\, where he will share insights on his decades of activism 
 in the West Bank\, the situation in Hebron currently\, and will connect his
  work to nonviolent resistance movements in the United States.<br />Attende
 es may register <a href="https://forms.gle/Kybj7Vh8bufv7v888" target="_blan
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 //forms.gle/Kybj7Vh8bufv7v888&source=gmail&ust=1743888122119000&usg=AOvVaw0
 4FngQdHHhVwGvhh1_fabz">here</a> to receive room information.</p>
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ORGANIZER;CN="Isabelle Melton":MAILTO:imelton@jd26.law.harvard.edu
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