Palestine Week is a week-long series of annual global events dedicated to raising awareness, fostering solidarity, and advocating for justice and liberation for the Palestinian people with educational workshops, cultural performances, rallies, and more.
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The Israeli military systematically uses dogs to brutalise Palestinians, including children, elderly people, and detainees, sometimes with fatal consequences, evidence obtained by SOMO reveals a significant risk that police dogs exported from the Netherlands are used by the Israeli army in international law abuses.
The Netherlands is a key country from where police-trained dogs are exported to the Israeli army, but corporate confidentiality means that no public information is available about the suppliers or the number of dogs supplied to the Israeli army by Dutch companies. SOMO discovered that police dog companies in the Netherlands obtained the required veterinary certificates for the export of at least 110 dogs to Israel between October 2023 and February 2025. One hundred of these certificates were granted to the company Four Winds K9, a police dog training centre in the southern Dutch village of Geffen. Early 2024 in Nablus, occupied West Bank. Amna’s three-year-old son Ahmad is sleeping in her arms as she gets her other children ready for school. Suddenly, Israeli soldiers force their way into her home with a large police dog. The dog attacks Amna and Ahmad, clenching its jaw around the toddler’s buttocks for several minutes. “I could hear my son scream in pain and my daughters were shrieking and crying out of fear and terror,” Amna recalls. The soldiers drag the dog and Ahmad down the stairs and out of the building, hitting Amna with the butt of a rifle to stop her from reaching Ahmad. When the soldiers return Ahmed to his mother, he is “unconscious, wrapped in a bloodied foil blanket.” Ahmad is hospitalised for eight days and needs 42 internal and external stitches, while Amna’s other children suffer “severe psychological trauma after everything they witnessed.” From Gaza to the West Bank, from Palestinian homes to Israeli detention centres, Palestinians have shared horrifying testimonies of dog attacks by the Israeli military. These testimonies demonstrate the Israeli military’s systematic use of dogs to brutalise Palestinians, including children, elderly people, and medical staff – sometimes with fatal consequences.
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An important step in cutting Dutch ties to genocide! ✊🏽
Hondenleverancier Four Winds heft zichzelf op om vervolging te voorkomen
Onderzoek ‘Raising the Bar Supermarkets must urgently address structural exploitation of cocoa farmers‘: nog geen 6% van de chocolade in onze supermarkten is eerlijk.
Hoewel de prijs van chocolade de pan uit rijst, leven veel boer(inn)en die de cacao produceren nog steeds in bittere armoede. Zo’n 94% van alle chocolade in onze Nederlandse supermarkten is oneerlijk. Dit betekent dat het merendeel van de cacaoboeren nog steeds geen leefbaar inkomen krijgt voor hun harde werken, blijkt uit onderzoek van Oxfam-Novib. Albert Heijn kondigde al aan om wél structureel eerlijke prijzen te gaan betalen: hoog tijd dat supermarktreuzen Jumbo en Lidl volgen.
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Nieuw onderzoek: nog geen 6% van de chocolade in onze supermarkten is eerlijk
In achttien Nederlandse steden voerden mensen actie tegen de manier waarop het kabinet-Schoof zich opstelt tegenover Israël, de organisatoren spreken van een ‘aanhoudende medeplichtigheid van Nederland aan de genocide in Gaza’.
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Sluit je aan bij de nationale sit-in / die-in voor Gaza!
Donderdag; Asteroid 2024 YR4; NAVO Top; IND; Publiek, Toegankelijk en Gratis OV; Vulkanendag; Bijentelling.
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Petition proposing an ‘International Day of Volcanoes’ to be observed officially by the United Nations and we are asking that the U.N. General Assembly please consider a resolution for establishing an ‘International Day of Volcanoes’ on 10th April every year.
Tanguy De Saint-Cyr, owner of French volcano tour company, that came up with the concept for an ‘International Day of Volcanoes’ and Jeannie Curtis, a New Zealand technical writer and educator are proposing an ‘International Day of Volcanoes’ to be officially recognised and observed by the United Nations and ask that the General Assembly please consider a resolution for establishing an ‘International Day of Volcanoes’ on 10th April. The date of 10th April has no recognised international day and we propose this date for the following reason: On 10 April 1815 Gunung (Mount) Tambora in Indonesia erupted and generated massive pyroclastic flows and tsunami that instantly killed 10,000 locals, who were unaware of the danger. The massive eruption injected huge amounts of aerosols into the Earth’s stratosphere, causing a global haze which reflected back the incoming sunlight and cooled our planet by half a degree (celsius). This affected the planet’s climate for three years, causing crop failure and famine, resulting in up to 60,000 more human deaths globally – as well as affecting animals, fauna and agriculture. Tambora is still the deadliest eruption in recorded history, and 10th April is a date in which the people of the World can reflect upon an “International Day of Volcanoes’
Biomass is an Earth observing satellite planned for launch by the European Space Agency (ESA) on 29 April 2025 from Kourou, French Guiana on a Vega C launch vehicle, the mission will provide the first comprehensive measurements of global forest biomass.
It is meant to last for five years, monitoring at least eight growth cycles in the world’s forests. The Biomass satellite is part of ESA’s Living Planet Programme, which consists of Earth observation missions. Its initial launch date was set to 2020, but that has since been delayed to 2025. The entire cost of the mission was placed at around 400 million euros. The main scientific instrument aboard Biomass will be a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) operating at 435 MHz. The satellite will measure 10 x 12 x 20m, weigh around 1.2 tonnes and it is set to orbit the Earth at an altitude of 666 km. All devices for assembly of the satellite structure, including vertical transport equipment, assembly and disassembly of satellite panels, assembly and disassembly of the Synthetic Aperture Radar are done by the Spanish company SENER.
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Biomass – ESA
#ForestDay #IntlForestDay Day of Forests / Dag van het Bos 2025 (TV FAO webcast)
De Bijentelling is een gezamenlijk project van Naturalis, IVN Natuureducatie en LandschappenNL in samenwerking met EIS Kenniscentrum Insecten en Waarneming.nl, het doel is om zoveel mogelijk over bijen te weten komen, zodat de bij beter kan worden geholpen.
Daarom wordt iedereen gevraagd om mee te doen aan dit landelijk bijenonderzoek. De Bijentelling wordt georganiseerd in samenwerking met EIS Kenniscentrum Insecten en Waarneming.nl. Hoe meer we over bijen weten, hoe beter we de bij kunnen helpen. Daarom vragen we iedereen om mee te doen aan dit landelijk bijenonderzoek. In Nederland komen bijna 360 bijensoorten voor. Ruim de helft daarvan is bedreigd. Bijen zijn belangrijk voor bestuiving. “80% van onze eetbare gewassen en bijna 90% van onze wilde planten worden bestoven door bijen en andere insecten.
The UN high-level Conference on Israel-Palestine conflict will be held from 2 to 4 June 2025 in New York, preceded by a preparatory meeting, to be held in May 2025.
The UN General Assembly adopted a potentially transformative resolution by an overwhelming margin. The UNGA demands an end to Israel’s illegal 1967 occupation and reaffirms its unwavering support for the two-state solution. Most importantly, the resolution laid out a roadmap for establishing a Palestinian state at The High-level International Conference. Consider how long the Palestinians, and the world, have waited for this moment. In 1947, the UN first took on the responsibility of addressing the Palestinian question. With Resolution 181, the UN General Assembly proposed the partition of Mandatory Palestine into two independent states – one Jewish and one Arab.
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Diplomats prepare ground for June conference on two-State solution for Israel and Palestine
The UN can end the Middle East conflict by welcoming Palestine as a member
