Lay Down Your Arms - Archive

Programme Announcement:

English

We know what is going on.


Our protests must lead to actions for change.


STOP THE WARS - STRENGTHEN INTERNATIONAL LAW


Saturday 8th and Sunday 9th February, 2025

Saturday, February 8
13.00 Warming up lunch with participants at the Palestinian restaurant Habibi

17.00 Stop PRESS killing in Gaza outside the Norwegian Parliament


Sunday, February 9
11.00 - 18.00 Full Day Conference Oslo Samfunnssalen, Arbeidersamfunnets plass 1
STOP THE WARS - STRENGTHEN INTERNATIONAL LAW

PARTICIPANTS (Speeches, panels, exhibition):
Francesca Albanese, UN rapporteur on occupied Palestine territories

Maher Amer - Director of European Palestinian Initiative Against Apartheid (EPIAAS)

Haim Bresheeth, Pr. SOAS, film director and Jewish pro-Palestinian human rights defender

Max Blumenthal, investigative journalist, director of Grayzone (Zoom)

Glenn Diesen, Prof. economics, Russia and Eurasia-studies, University of South-East

Deepa Govindarajan Driver, State and corporate accountability expert

Mads Gilbert, Medical doctor and Palestinian activist for more than 40 years

Ögmundur Jonasson, former Icelandic Minister of Justice, former broadcaster, TV-reporter and leading trade unionist.

Ghada Karmi, Dr. med, Palestinian human rights activist

George Katrougalos, UN independent expert on international order

Marielle Leraand, The Norwegian Peace and Justice Party, Partiet FOR

Robert Lipton, co-founder of US Jewish Voice for Peace

Stefania Maurizi, Italian investigative journalist and author

Dominique Pradalié, President of the International Federation of Journalists 2022-2026

Ramzi Rabah, Member of the Executive Committee of the PLO

George Rashmawi - Head of the Union of the Palestinian Communities

Arne Ruth, former editor of Sweden's largest daily, Dagens Nyheter

Raji Sourani, lead Palestinian Lawyer and Human Rights defender, advisor to ICJ International Court of Justice and ICC, International Criminal Court and to South Africa

Derek Summerfield, Psychiatrist and long-time human rights and Gaza health activist

Ola Tunander, professor emeritus PRIO, Peace Research Institute in Oslo, Norway

Tomas Magnusson, Svenska Freds, Swedens’s leading peace organization, co-chair of Lay Down Your Arms and chair of the Campaign against American military bases in Sweden

John Y. Jones, co-chair of Lay Down Your Arms and Networkers SouthNorth, Norway

Event secretary John Y. Jones +47 93039520, mail@networkers.org


Lay Down Your Arms, postal address is Dyrefaret 24, 1362 Hosle, Norway

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