SB62 Press: Cross Constituency briefing on UNFCCC censorship on Palestine

Описание: Civil society organisations participating in the United Nations climate negotiations have condemned what they describe as the UNFCCC Secretariat’s ongoing and arbitrary censorship of expressions of solidarity with Palestine over demand for the removal of the phrase “End the Siege” from a planned peaceful civil society action highlighting the humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in Gaza - despite a similar protest which went ahead on Monday which was allowed to use the phrase “End the Siege”.

The situation in Gaza has been described as a “siege” by a string of UN leaders, agencies and international human rights bodies - including UN Secretary-General António Guterres; Philippe Lazzarini, UNRWA Commissioner‑General; Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner Human Rights; Martin Griffiths, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs; Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine; and WHO Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. .

Civil society groups describe this demand as not only baseless, but a grave moral and political failure. In light of this explicit censorship, civil society groups have taken the unprecedented step of suspending all future applications for Palestine solidarity actions within the UNFCCC framework.

“For the past two years, the UNFCCC Secretariat has tried to silence our movement’s unwavering solidarity with Palestine. We have been censored, edited, erased—while a genocide unfolds in Gaza. Let’s not pretend this is about procedure. This is political.
The UNFCCC secretariat is choosing to censor words like genocide, occupation, and siege—as Israel starves, bombs, and massacres an entire population”, said Rachitaa Gupta from Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice (DCJ).

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