Civil Society Initiatives

EMHRN Working Group on Palestine, Israel and Palestinians The group is active in many things. It engages directly in projects and report writing, and it acts as an expert resource group to the network on human rights issues relating to Palestine/Israel and Palestinians. Among other things, the group is currently involved in the production of an annual report series A Human Rights Review on the EU and Israel. Read more...

Members in Israel

• The Public Committee against Torture
• B’Tselem: The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories
• Arab Association for Human Rights
• ADALAH: The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel
• Israeli Response to Death of Reuters Cameraman Makes Journalists Legitimate IOF Targets
• High Court suspends proceedings in Ni'lin shooting case
• Right to Life of Palestinian Children Disregarded in Ni’lin as Israel’s Policy of Wilful Killing of Civilians Continues
• Supreme Court: Education Ministry, Haifa Municipality and Pupils’ Parents Must Enter Promptly into Negotiations over Establishing an Arab School for the Arts in Haifa
• Israel approves some 32,000 requests for family unification 90,000 Palestinians still waiting
• Palestinian victim of shooting and Israeli human rights organizations demand suspension of legal proceedings in Ni’lin affair
• Israel: Don’t Destroy Homes. Collective Punishment Violates International Law
• Mr. Qawariq arrested by Israeli forces in the city of Nablus
• Following exposure by B'Tselem, Military Police investigate shooting of bound Palestinian
• Arab Political Prisoner Seeks Conjugal Rights in Order to Father a Child like Jewish Israeli Prisoners such as Yigal Amir
• Supreme Court Issues Order to Show Cause Requiring Israel Prison Service to Explain Policy of Prohibiting Palestinian Political Prisoners from Embracing their Young Children during Family Visits
• Prosecute soldier who fired ‘rubber’ bullet at Palestinian detainee, Investigate the involvement of an officer in the event and suspected cover-up
• Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories, A Study on the Implementation of the EU Guidelines on Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
• Closing down of the Nafha Society for the Defence of Prisoners and Human Rights
• No Defense: Soldier Violence against Palestinian Detainees
• Jerusalem Municipality allows criminals to turn the Dahiyat a-Salam neighborhood into a garbage dump
• Adalah Demands Cancelation of Order Issued by Defense Minister to Prepare for Demolition of the Family Homes of Individuals Implicated in Attacks on Civilians in Jerusalem, in Breach of International Law
• Sacrificing Justice for Politics: Four Years on, Israel’s High Court Continues to Disregard the International Court of Justice’s Advisory Opinion
• Physical and psychological ill-treatment and torture of a 10 year-old boy
• B'Tselem: Israel has not dismantled any section of the Separation Barrier that was nullified by the High Court
• Supreme Court Orders Mivtahim Ltd. to Freeze Bidding Procedures for Sale of Land in Nazareth Confiscated from Arab Owners in 1958
• Delegation of Arab Political Leaders and Adalah Representatives in South Africa Meet with Lawyers from the Legal Resources Center, Ministers and Government Officials to Discuss Constitution Building and Human Rights
• Immediately halt construction on 9 houses in Ofra settlement
• Refugees and Asylum seekers in danger! The new "Prevention of Infiltration Law" adopted in violation of refugees’ basic rights
• Adalah Newsletter
• Unprotected Citizens: Amidar public housing company threatens to evict 497 Palestinian families in Jaffa-Tel Aviv
• B'Tselem demands a criminal investigation into the killing of five members of the Abu Me'tiq family in Gaza
• Palestinian and Israeli human rights groups today issued an urgent call to cease restrictions on Gaza's fuel supply and stop the unprecedented harm to Gaza's humanitarian needs.
• Israel: Investigate Death of Gaza Civilians
• B’Tselem: firing of Flechette shell that killed Reuters cameraman violates laws of war
• Human Rights Organizations to Israeli Parliament: Bill Banning Family Visits to Palestinian Political Prisoners Amounts to Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Punishment
• Adalah Newsletter April 2008
• Human Rights organizations file a petition to the High Court of Justice against the GSS, the Police and the Attorney General demanding the Court prohibit the use of family members to pressure interrogees
• Demolition of houses near the Separation Barrier, Far'un Village, Tulkarm District
• Off the Map. Land and Housing Rights Violations in Israel’s Unrecognized Bedouin Villages
• Israel: End Systematic Bias Against Bedouin
• B’Tselem: Grave suspicion of extra-judicial execution in Bethlehem killings
• Adalah to Employment Office: Conditioning Acceptance of Arab Women to Work on Removing the Islamic Veil is Discriminatory and Illegal
• B'Tselem to Mazuz: Prevent demolition of home belonging to family of terror attack perpetrator
• NGOs Demand Cancellation of Nomination of Yoel Lavi – Known for Making Racist Statements against Arab Citizens – as Director of Israel Land Administration
• Re: 2008 Jewish National Fund Negev Dinner and Award
• Police Officers Urinated on Palestinian Detainee Suspected of Throwing Explosives
• Adalah to Labor Minister: Aged-Based Pension Insurance Discriminates Against Arab Citizens, Ultra-Orthodox Jews and the Disabled
• Palestinian homes demolished without warning
• PCATI Files Petition Demanding Criminal Investigation of Highly Decorated Boarder Patrol Officer for Assassinating Palestinian Civilian in 2001
• 149 people killed since the start of the year
• B'Tselem condemns rocket fire at Israel
• Contrary to Israel's Chief of Staff, at least half of those killed in Gaza did not take part in the fighting

News on Israel

• Israeli Response to Death of Reuters Cameraman Makes Journalists Legitimate IOF Targets
• High Court suspends proceedings in Ni'lin shooting case
• Right to Life of Palestinian Children Disregarded in Ni’lin as Israel’s Policy of Wilful Killing of Civilians Continues
• Supreme Court: Education Ministry, Haifa Municipality and Pupils’ Parents Must Enter Promptly into Negotiations over Establishing an Arab School for the Arts in Haifa
• Israel approves some 32,000 requests for family unification 90,000 Palestinians still waiting
• Palestinian victim of shooting and Israeli human rights organizations demand suspension of legal proceedings in Ni’lin affair
• Israel: Don’t Destroy Homes. Collective Punishment Violates International Law
• Mr. Qawariq arrested by Israeli forces in the city of Nablus
• Following exposure by B'Tselem, Military Police investigate shooting of bound Palestinian
• Arab Political Prisoner Seeks Conjugal Rights in Order to Father a Child like Jewish Israeli Prisoners such as Yigal Amir
• Supreme Court Issues Order to Show Cause Requiring Israel Prison Service to Explain Policy of Prohibiting Palestinian Political Prisoners from Embracing their Young Children during Family Visits
• Prosecute soldier who fired ‘rubber’ bullet at Palestinian detainee, Investigate the involvement of an officer in the event and suspected cover-up
• Closing down of the Nafha Society for the Defence of Prisoners and Human Rights
• Jerusalem Municipality allows criminals to turn the Dahiyat a-Salam neighborhood into a garbage dump
• Adalah Demands Cancelation of Order Issued by Defense Minister to Prepare for Demolition of the Family Homes of Individuals Implicated in Attacks on Civilians in Jerusalem, in Breach of International Law
• Sacrificing Justice for Politics: Four Years on, Israel’s High Court Continues to Disregard the International Court of Justice’s Advisory Opinion
• Physical and psychological ill-treatment and torture of a 10 year-old boy
• B'Tselem: Israel has not dismantled any section of the Separation Barrier that was nullified by the High Court
• Supreme Court Orders Mivtahim Ltd. to Freeze Bidding Procedures for Sale of Land in Nazareth Confiscated from Arab Owners in 1958
• Note on the human rights situation in Israel end the OPT
• Delegation of Arab Political Leaders and Adalah Representatives in South Africa Meet with Lawyers from the Legal Resources Center, Ministers and Government Officials to Discuss Constitution Building and Human Rights
• Immediately halt construction on 9 houses in Ofra settlement
• Refugees and Asylum seekers in danger! The new "Prevention of Infiltration Law" adopted in violation of refugees’ basic rights
• Appeal to respect the freedom of movement owed to the Al-Haq General Director
• B'Tselem demands a criminal investigation into the killing of five members of the Abu Me'tiq family in Gaza
• Palestinian and Israeli human rights groups today issued an urgent call to cease restrictions on Gaza's fuel supply and stop the unprecedented harm to Gaza's humanitarian needs.
• Israel: Investigate Death of Gaza Civilians
• B’Tselem: firing of Flechette shell that killed Reuters cameraman violates laws of war
• Human Rights Organizations to Israeli Parliament: Bill Banning Family Visits to Palestinian Political Prisoners Amounts to Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Punishment
• Human Rights organizations file a petition to the High Court of Justice against the GSS, the Police and the Attorney General demanding the Court prohibit the use of family members to pressure interrogees
• Demolition of houses near the Separation Barrier, Far'un Village, Tulkarm District
• Open Clinic Campaign, Demanding Ministry of Health take Responsibility
• Israel: End Systematic Bias Against Bedouin
• B’Tselem: Grave suspicion of extra-judicial execution in Bethlehem killings
• Adalah to Employment Office: Conditioning Acceptance of Arab Women to Work on Removing the Islamic Veil is Discriminatory and Illegal
• B'Tselem to Mazuz: Prevent demolition of home belonging to family of terror attack perpetrator
• NGOs Demand Cancellation of Nomination of Yoel Lavi – Known for Making Racist Statements against Arab Citizens – as Director of Israel Land Administration
• Re: 2008 Jewish National Fund Negev Dinner and Award
• Police Officers Urinated on Palestinian Detainee Suspected of Throwing Explosives
• Stop Collective Punishment and Unlawful Killings
• Adalah to Labor Minister: Aged-Based Pension Insurance Discriminates Against Arab Citizens, Ultra-Orthodox Jews and the Disabled
• Palestinian homes demolished without warning
• Contrary to Israel's Chief of Staff, at least half of those killed in Gaza did not take part in the fighting
• PCATI Files Petition Demanding Criminal Investigation of Highly Decorated Boarder Patrol Officer for Assassinating Palestinian Civilian in 2001
• 149 people killed since the start of the year
• B'Tselem condemns rocket fire at Israel
• EMHRN's note in view of the sub-committee on political dialogue and cooperation between the EU and Israel
• Israel Denies Freedom of Movement to Human Rights Defenders from Gaza
• PCHR office severely damaged during air raid by Israeli forces
• Representatives of the civil society must be respected
• The European Union and israel should implement their human rights commitments within the framework of the EU-Israel action plan
• Israel disregards its own commitments
• Open letter on the occasion of the Association Council between EU and Israel
• 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
• Escalating Violations against Civilians
• Severe violations of human rights in the Gaza Strip
• Association Council between the EU and Israel
• Appeal to the EU-Israel Association Council to Act
• The Gaza Strip Is Still Occupied,
• The EU violates it own Human Rights Commitments
• International Legal Consideration of the Barrier/Wall
• Migrant Workers in Israel
• International HR Groups decry harassment of monitors
• Disqualification of Arab party and members of Knesset to run in next election
• EU-Israel Association Council
• Investigation of Adalah
• Ccalling for a suspension of the Association Agreement with Israel.
• Azmi Bishara Trial
• EU-Israel Association Committee Meeting
• EU Abstention of Human Rights in the Occupied Territories
• 'Imprisonment of Combatants not Entitled to Prisoner-of-War Status' - Israel