Human Rights Issues

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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 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

• 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