INVITATION to Public Lectures and Debate:

“REFUGEE RETURN and REAL PROPERTY RESTITUTION in BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA –

LESSONS to be LEARNED for the PALESTINIAN CASE”

with BADIL Guest-Speaker: Paul Prettitore, Legal Advisor to the OSCE/Bosnia-Herzegovina

(E/04/03)

BADIL Resource Center
13 January 2003
For Immediate Release

BADIL Resource Center is pleased to invite the public - especially refugee-rights activists, experts, policy makers and the media -  to participate in a series of debates about the Bosnian experience with refugee return and real property restitution and its relevance to the Palestinian struggle for implementation of the right of return, restitution and compensation. Our guest-speaker is an international expert in return- and property legislation with several years of practical experience in Bosnia.

• SIMULTANEOUS TRANSLATION (English-Arabic) WILL BE PROVIDED.

• BADIL video documentaries and publications will be available at these events.

PROGRAM

BETHLEHEM, Monday, 20-01-2003 (BADIL and Bethlehem TV):

* Screening of Video Documentary, “Experiencing the Right of Return – Palestinian Refugees Visit Bosnia” (BADIL 2002)

Time: 09 p.m. on Bethlehem TV.

DEHEISHE CAMP/Bethlehem, Tuesday, 21-01-2003:
(BADIL and Popular Committee-Deheishe Camp)
* Public Lecture and Debate with Paul Prettitore
Location: Shuhada Hall, Deheishe Camp (right next to the IBDA’A Building)
Time: 4 o’clock afternoon
--- Alternative Bethlehem Program (in case of CURFEW ONLY) ---
In case of curfew, a combined video presentation and studio debate/public call-in program with Paul Prettitore will be broadcast on Bethlehem TV on: 21-01-2003: starting at 9 o’clock in the evening

KALANDIA CAMP, Wednesday, 22-01-2003
(BADIL and Union of Youth Activity Centers)
* Public Lecture and Debate with Paul Prettitore
Time: 4 o’clock in the afternoon
Location: Head-office, Union of Youth Activity Centers, Kalandia camp. (For CONFIRMATION and directions, please contact BADIL or Wajih Atallah/UYAC, tel:  02-5835731).

GALILEE, Thursday, 23-01-2003
(BADIL and Association for the Defense of the Rights of the Internally Displaced\ADRID)
* Informal Debate with Paul Prettitore
Location: Galilee Society, Shafa’amr
Time: 6 o’clock in the evening

For information and invitations, please contact: Daoud Badr, coordinator, ADRID, tel: 051-416906 

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