It is a great honor for Bisan Center to receive this year’s MESA Academic Freedom Award. We are very grateful for The Middle East Studies Association for their recognition and for their great contributions to the academic field in the Middle East region. The MESA Academic Freedom Award was established in 2001. It is presented …
أسس الحماية الاجتماعية وقانون الضمان المقترح – رؤية نقدية بديلة
تقديم نتوقف أولاً عند العنوان ونؤكد: أن الضمان الاجتماعي حقٌ أساسي من حقوق الإنسان، مُبين في القانون الأساسي الفلسطيني المعدل ٢٠٠٤ ، في المادة (١٠) التي تُشير إلى أن حقوق الإنسان ملزمة وواجبة الاحترام، كما أن الضمان الاجتماعي حق مكفول في العهد الدولي الخاص بالحقوق الاقتصادية والاجتماعية والثقافية الصادر عن الجمعية العامة لهيئة الأمم المتحدة، …
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Global campaign to ban hazardous pesticides
Agricultural trade is growing worldwide and with it an agricultural model and agricultural technologies stemming from the green revolution of the 1960s. We are talking about mechanization and the use of seeds, fertilizers and pesticides. Sales of pesticides have experienced tremendous growth in recent decades, especially in low income countries. All pesticides entering the …
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Discussion: where does Palestine it in the Israeli struggle for “democracy”?
تندرج هذه الحوارية تحت شق المناصرة الدولية، وهي تأتي استجابة للتساؤلات التي وصلت مركز بيسان للبحوث والإنماء لما يُطرَح في أوساط الأكاديميين في الغرب وما يُشيعه الإعلام المُهيمن من “ديمقراطية مدعاة” في المظاهرات الإسرائيلية الأخيرة، حيث يُشبّك مركز بيسان فيها مع منظمة علماء من أجل فلسطين، وعلماء وباحثين من تخصصات مختلفة مناصرين للقضية الفلسطينية وحائزين …
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Political Participation in Palestine
Political Participation in Palestine Bisan Center for Research and Development and the Social and Economic Policies Monitor are pleased to invite you to the launch event of two studies regarding Political Participation in Palestine Monday 28-11-202210:30 AM Carmel Hotel- Ramallah All New Gallery
Social Experiments to Fight Poverty: From Research to Policy-Prof. Esther Duflo
We are pleased to announce that the next Bisan Lecture webinar will take place on Wednesday, November 9th at 6pm Palestine time (5pm Central European Time, 11 am US Eastern time) – ATTENTION unusual schedule. We will have the pleasure to welcome Prof. Esther Duflo (MIT, Nobel laureate in Economic Sciences in 2019) who will speak on Title: Social Experiments to Fight Poverty: From Research …
The first lecture of the 2022-2023 Bisan Lecture Series
On September 14-th, 2022, Salim Tamari (Editor of the Jerusalem Quarterly, Senior Fellow of the Institute of Palestine Studies, Professor of Sociology at Birzeit University) gave the first lecture of the 2022-2023 Bisan Lecture Series. Quoting Rashid Khalidi (the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University), Salim Tamari is today’s “preeminent Palestinian …
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Six prominent Palestinian civil society organizations arbitrarily outlawed by Israeli government sent a letter to the Biden administration yesterday demanding action.
The letter, addressed to United States President Joe Biden, calls on him and his administration to condemn the latest Israeli government actions aimed at delegitimizing and criminalizing Palestinian human rights defenders and civil society organizations as well as to reject the Israeli government’s unsubstantiated allegations against the six Palestinian civil society organizations and demand Israeli …
#StandWithThe6: Joint Statement from Designated Palestinian Organizations Raided, Closed and Pillaged by Israeli Occupying Forces
In the early morning of 18 August 2022, Israeli Occupying Forces (IOF) forcibly entered, raided, ransacked and damaged properties of six designated Palestinian civil society organizations: Al-Haq, Addameer, the Bisan Center for Research & Development, Defence for Children International-Palestine, the Union of Agricultural Workers Committees (UAWC), and the Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees (UPWC). Armed military forces …
Civil Society Organizations Stand with the Commission of Inquiry against Rising Attacks
The undersigned organisations extend their full support and pledge their ongoing cooperation with the UN Commission of Inquiry on Palestine, which has been under mounting attack, led by Israel, including recent smearing of its work and members as antisemitic, and calls for its disbandment. The Commission of Inquiry (hereinafter the CoI or the Commission), was …