Human Rights Issues

This section is under construction...

In the meantime, to learn more about human rights issues in Palestine, you can visit these websites:

• Human Rights Watch
• Amnesty International

Members in Palestine

• Al-Haq
• Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR)
• Al Mezan Center for Human Rights
• PCHR Calls for Schools to be allowed to operate without Destructive Political conflicts
• PCHR Condemns Attacks on Civil Society Organizations and the Continued of Arrests against Hamas Members in the West Bank
• Israel’s Policy of Arbitrary Arrest of Human Rights Defenders Continues
• PCHR Condemns Gaza Beach Crime and the Response of the Government
• Over 122 Institutions, Offices Are Targeted by Security in Gaza: Al Mezan Condemns Illegal Mass Arrests and Raids on Institutions
• Occupied Palestinian Territories: New Arrests Highlight Abuses by Hamas, Fatah
• PCHR Calls for Investigation into Police Shooting of a Young Man
• Gaza Military Court Sentences Man to Death
• The Secret to Success: Secret Evidence Provides Sole Basis for Continuation of Travel Ban on Al-Haq’s General Director
• PCHR Condemns Interference of the Ministry of Interior and Security Forces in Election Affairs of the Women’s Arab Union in Nablus
• Seeking Justice Abroad:Bil’in Village Council Submits Case before Canadian Court Against Canadian Corporations for Involvement in Illegal Settlement Construction
• PCHR Annual Report 2007
• PCHR Condemns IOF Measures against Nablus Charities
• Al Mezan Organizes Lecture on International Humanitarian Law for Women
• PCHR Opposes Policy of Nepotistic Council Appointments in the Gaza Strip
• An Obstacle to Peace: 41 Years of Israel’s Illegal Settlement Policy and the Violation of the Palestinian Right to Self-Determination
• Al Mezan Warns of IOF Conducting Large-Scale Military Operation in the Gaza Strip; Denounces Killing of Children and Aggression
• One Year of Banning Family Visits to Prisoners, Al Mezan Condemns Israeli Violations against Palestinian Prisoners
• 7 Injured, including 2 Children, by Palestinian Security Forces in Beit Foriek near Nablus
• Worst Year under Occupation: 2008 1st Quarter Report on IOF Violations of Human Rights in the Gaza Strip
• Raji Sourani Reelected to the Executive Board of the Arab Organization for Human Rights
• Mother and Four Children Killed by Israel Bombardment of their Home in Beit Hanoun
• PCHR is Concerned over the Ban of its Lawyers from Visiting Prisons in the Gaza Strip
• Peaceful Assembly Is an Unconditioned Legal Right; Al Mezan Condemns Violent Dispersing of a March in Rafah
• The Findings of the Palestinian Legislative Council Committee Investigating the Death of Majd abdel Aziz Bargouthi Must be Implemented
• Gaza Strip is on the Verge of Humanitarian Catastrophe
• Ramallah Government Insists on the Policy of Salary Suspension; Al Mezan Views the Policy as a Violation of Human Rights
• High Military Court Sentences a Man to Death
• Palestinian Authority: Punish Imam’s Death in Custody
• PCHR Calls for Keeping Universities and Educational Institutions Out of the Ongoing Power Struggle
• IOF Label Detainees of the Gaza Strip as “Illegal Fighters"; Al Mezan Calls on the International Community to Protect Palestinian Detainees
• Where Villages Stood: Israel’s Continuing Violations of International Law in Occupied Latroun, 1967-2007
• Al Mezan Calls on the Arab League's Summit to Protect Palestinian Civilians in the OPT;
• PCHR Is Deeply Concerned Over Storming the Headquarters of Ramattan Press Agency by the PSS in Ramallah
• The International Commission of Jurists Concludes a Second High Level Mission to Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory
• Humanitarian Impacts of the Siege Exacerbate; Palestinian Fisherman Lose Their Livelihoods in Gaza
• Israeli High Court of Justice strips civilians in the Gaza Strip of status as protected persons under occupation and sanctions the siege
• Al Mezan Welcomes the Visit of EU High Representative Javier Solana to the OPT
• Victims of IOF Attacks on Gaza rising: 77 Killed; including 19 Children
• As There Are Indications of Medical Negligence, PCHR Callas for Investigation into the Death of a Palestinian Prisoner in an Israeli Jail
• Academic Freedom? Not for Arabs in Israel
• Wilful killing not collateral damage: Israeli war crimes in the Gaza Strip must be prosecuted
• Arab Association for Human Rights Newsletter
• Discrimination diary. Little Arafat

News on Palestine

• PCHR Calls for Schools to be allowed to operate without Destructive Political conflicts
• PCHR Condemns Attacks on Civil Society Organizations and the Continued of Arrests against Hamas Members in the West Bank
• The United Against Torture Coalition and the Euro Mediterranean Human Rights Network call upon the European Union for urgent action on the closure of the Nafha Society for the Defense of Prisoners and Human Rights in Nablus
• Israel’s Policy of Arbitrary Arrest of Human Rights Defenders Continues
• PCHR Condemns Gaza Beach Crime and the Response of the Government
• Over 122 Institutions, Offices Are Targeted by Security in Gaza: Al Mezan Condemns Illegal Mass Arrests and Raids on Institutions
• Occupied Palestinian Territories: New Arrests Highlight Abuses by Hamas, Fatah
• PCHR Calls for Investigation into Police Shooting of a Young Man
• Gaza Military Court Sentences Man to Death
• The Secret to Success: Secret Evidence Provides Sole Basis for Continuation of Travel Ban on Al-Haq’s General Director
• PCHR Condemns Interference of the Ministry of Interior and Security Forces in Election Affairs of the Women’s Arab Union in Nablus
• Seeking Justice Abroad:Bil’in Village Council Submits Case before Canadian Court Against Canadian Corporations for Involvement in Illegal Settlement Construction
• PCHR Condemns IOF Measures against Nablus Charities
• Al Mezan Organizes Lecture on International Humanitarian Law for Women
• An Obstacle to Peace: 41 Years of Israel’s Illegal Settlement Policy and the Violation of the Palestinian Right to Self-Determination
• Al Mezan Warns of IOF Conducting Large-Scale Military Operation in the Gaza Strip; Denounces Killing of Children and Aggression
• PCHR Opposes Policy of Nepotistic Council Appointments in the Gaza Strip
• One Year of Banning Family Visits to Prisoners, Al Mezan Condemns Israeli Violations against Palestinian Prisoners
• 7 Injured, including 2 Children, by Palestinian Security Forces in Beit Foriek near Nablus
• Raji Sourani Reelected to the Executive Board of the Arab Organization for Human Rights
• Mother and Four Children Killed by Israel Bombardment of their Home in Beit Hanoun
• PCHR is Concerned over the Ban of its Lawyers from Visiting Prisons in the Gaza Strip
• Peaceful Assembly Is an Unconditioned Legal Right; Al Mezan Condemns Violent Dispersing of a March in Rafah
• The Findings of the Palestinian Legislative Council Committee Investigating the Death of Majd abdel Aziz Bargouthi Must be Implemented
• Gaza Strip is on the Verge of Humanitarian Catastrophe
• Ramallah Government Insists on the Policy of Salary Suspension; Al Mezan Views the Policy as a Violation of Human Rights
• High Military Court Sentences a Man to Death
• Palestinian Authority: Punish Imam’s Death in Custody
• PCHR Calls for Keeping Universities and Educational Institutions Out of the Ongoing Power Struggle
• IOF Label Detainees of the Gaza Strip as “Illegal Fighters"; Al Mezan Calls on the International Community to Protect Palestinian Detainees
• Al Mezan Calls on the Arab League's Summit to Protect Palestinian Civilians in the OPT;
• PCHR Is Deeply Concerned Over Storming the Headquarters of Ramattan Press Agency by the PSS in Ramallah
• The International Commission of Jurists Concludes a Second High Level Mission to Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory
• Humanitarian Impacts of the Siege Exacerbate; Palestinian Fisherman Lose Their Livelihoods in Gaza
• Israeli High Court of Justice strips civilians in the Gaza Strip of status as protected persons under occupation and sanctions the siege
• Al Mezan Welcomes the Visit of EU High Representative Javier Solana to the OPT
• Victims of IOF Attacks on Gaza rising: 77 Killed; including 19 Children
• Academic Freedom? Not for Arabs in Israel
• Wilful killing not collateral damage: Israeli war crimes in the Gaza Strip must be prosecuted
• As There Are Indications of Medical Negligence, PCHR Callas for Investigation into the Death of a Palestinian Prisoner in an Israeli Jail
• EMHRN Mission to the OPT
• PCHR office severely damaged during air raid by Israeli forces
• Israel disregards its own commitments
• The Euro-Mediterranean Human rights Network condemns attacks against civilians
• Israel/OPT: Statement from the EHMRN/FIDH mission
• Mission of Solidarity with Palestinian and Israeli members
• Deep concern about the situation in Lebanon and Gaza
• Escalating Violations against Civilians
• Severe violations of human rights in the Gaza Strip
• Should the Palestinians be punished?
• The Gaza Strip Is Still Occupied,
• Tightened Spaces for Human Rights
• International Legal Consideration of the Barrier/Wall
• International HR Groups decry harassment of monitors
• Ill-treatment and detention of Marwan Barghouti
• Azmi Bishara Trial
• Also Palestinians have Rights!
• EU Abstention of Human Rights in the Occupied Territories
• Exclusion of Human Rights Lawyers from the Palestinian Bar Association