{"id":15042,"date":"2022-04-15T08:00:50","date_gmt":"2022-04-15T08:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/?p=15042"},"modified":"2022-04-15T08:00:50","modified_gmt":"2022-04-15T08:00:50","slug":"palestine-deeply-alarmed-on-election-of-israel-to-un-ecosoc-committee-on-ngos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/palestine-deeply-alarmed-on-election-of-israel-to-un-ecosoc-committee-on-ngos\/","title":{"rendered":"Palestine deeply alarmed on election of Israel to UN ECOSOC Committee on NGOs"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15043\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/ecosoc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/ecosoc.jpg 500w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/ecosoc-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/ecosoc-324x235.jpg 324w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>Islamabad: The State of Palestine is deeply alarmed by the undeserved election of Israel, the occupying Power, to the United Nations ECOSOC Committee on NGOs.<\/h4>\n<h4>The State of Palestine notes with disappointment that Israel\u2019s nomination by the Western Europe group will serve to encourage it to continue and escalate its systematic assaults and criminal attacks on Palestinian human rights and humanitarian civil society organizations, and by extension on the international human rights movement and human rights defenders worldwide.<\/h4>\n<h4>Israel\u2019s presence on this Committee is an affront to the functions and principles of the Committee. Its presence undermines the role of United Nations as both a gatekeeper of NGOs and a safe space for all NGOs committed to the principles of the rules-based order.<\/h4>\n<h4>No doubt, Israel will view this nomination and resulting position as an endorsement of its hostility and aggression against civil society, including its recent witch-hunt against six leading Palestinian human rights organizations, the detention of human rights defenders, obstructing the work of United Nations agencies, and the expulsion of others.<\/h4>\n<h4>Western countries nominated and endorsed a country that criminalizes documentation and advocacy, targets humanitarian aid and legal work, including with the United Nations and its different agencies, and spends money on the systematic smearing of and incitement against human rights defenders. They chose to normalize criminality and impunity. It is a scandal.<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The State of Palestine is deeply alarmed by the undeserved election of Israel, the occupying Power, to the United Nations ECOSOC Committee on NGOs. The State of Palestine notes with disappointment that Israel\u2019s nomination by the Western Europe group will serve to encourage it to continue and escalate its systematic assaults and criminal attacks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15043,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,46],"tags":[285,154,334],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15042"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15044,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15042\/revisions\/15044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}