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
• Israel: Misuse of Drones Killed Civilians in Gaza
• Adalah and HR Partners to Attorney General: Detention Conditions of Women Prisoners in Solitary Confinement Ward of Neve Tirtza are Cruel, Inhuman, Degrading and Illegal
• Hamas must release Gilad Shalit immediately and unconditionally
• A new PCATI report - Shackling as a Form of Torture and Abuse
• New online film marking two years of Gaza closure: It’s not a reality show - It’s reality
• Adalah to Attorney General and Custodian of Absentee Property: Israel's Sale of Palestinian Refugee Property Violates Israeli and International Law
• Cast Lead Offensive in Numbers, Al Mezan Publishes Statistical Report on Persons Killed and Property Destroyed by Israeli Occupation Forces during Operation Cast Lead
• Adalah, Al-Mezan and Al-Haq Demand Investigation into Killing of Two Girls, Suad and Amal Abed Rabbo, at Close Range by Israeli Soldiers During Operation “Cast Lead” in the Gaza Strip
• Israel: Stop Demolishing Palestinian Homes
• Bring Ze’ev Braude, the shooter from Hebron, to justice
• New Legal Developments: The New Israeli Government Launches a Flood of Legislation in Violation of the Rights of Palestinian Arab Citizens of Israel
• High Follow-up Committee for Arab Citizens of Israel to the Prime Minister: Arab citizens will oppose all illegitimate, racist legislative bills such as the proposal to ban commemoration of the Nakba,
• On Wednesday 3 June 2009 at 9 am, the Israeli Supreme Court will hear the petition to reopen the Big Mosque in Beer el-Sabe (Beer Sheva) to worshippers
• B'Tselem and ACRI demand investigation of officers who testified to a policy of routine use of violence against Palestinian civilians
• Adalah Petitions District Court against Israel Prison Service Decision Banning the Entry of Books into Prisons
• Committee Against Torture’s Findings Highlight International Community’s Inaction in the Face of Israel’s Widespread and Systematic Violations of International Law
• War Crimes Against Children: new report on the 313 children killed during Gaza offensive
• UN Committee Against Torture Found 'Numerous, Ongoing and Consistent Allegations' of Torture and Ill-treatment by Israeli Interrogators, in particular, against Palestinians and Calls for Independent Investigation into Israeli Military Offensive 'Cast Lead' in Gaza
• New data: Around 70% of the prisoners incarcerated in Israel are Arabs
• Police Blockades at Entrances to Arab Bedouin Village of Tarabeen al-Sana (‘Amra) in the Naqab are Illegal
• Palestinian and Israeli Human Rights Organisations Release Joint Fact Sheet Calling for an End to International Donor Complicity in Israeli Violations of International Law
• PCHR welcomes the Spanish National Court’s decision to continue investigating suspected Israeli war criminals
• Palestinian and Israeli Human Rights Organisations Release Joint Fact Sheet Calling for an End to International Donor Complicity in Israeli Violations of International Law
• Israeli Supreme Court to Hear Test Case on Wed. 6 May 2009 at 9 am on the Question of Opening Criminal Investigations against Israeli Military Commanders and Political Leaders Responsible for Killings and Extensive Home Demolitions in Gaza in 2004
• Adalah to AG: Open a Criminal Investigation into Israeli Soldiers' Use of Palestinian Civilians as Human Shields during the Recent Military Offensive on Gaza
• Israeli army must make public findings of its probe into Gaza conflict
• Israel/Gaza: Israeli Military Investigation Not Credible
• Israeli Refusal to Cooperate With United Nations Investigation Represents an Attempt to Shield Alleged War Criminals from Justice
• Israel Review Conference concludes on the eve of the Durban Review Conference
• Al Mezan Calls for Efforts to Expose Israeli Violations, Secure the Release of Prisoners and Defend their Human Rights
• Security forces demolish house of family of perpetrator of attack in Jerusalem
• Results of Israeli military investigations published today of alleged violations in Gaza are very problematic – the only way to truly investigate is through an external mechanism
• Adalah to Israel Railways Company: Decision to Fire Arab Railway Workers on the Grounds of No Military Service Violates the Equal Opportunities Employment Law
• Israel/Gaza: Cooperate With Goldstone Investigation
• Hiding Behind Civilian: Al Mezan report onThe Use of Palestinian Civilians as Human Shields by the Israeli Occupation Forces
• Unlawful Combatants: The Violation of Gazan Detainees' Rights in Israeli Prisons
• Adalah Newsletter
• Al-Haq position paper on “Operation Cast Lead and the Distortion of International Law”
• B'Tselem: Israel and the Palestinians must assist the UN mission investigating human rights violations during the fighting in Gaza
• Testimony: Members of Abu Halima family killed and burned in army’s bombing of their house, 3 January 2009
• Israel Closes Investigation into Alleged War Crimes Committed in the Gaza Strip
• Israeli Human Rights Organizations Call on the Attorney General: “Stop whitewashing suspected crimes in Gaza"
• Human Rights Organizations Withdraw Supreme Court Petition Challenging Harsh Law for Palestinian Security Suspects following Illegal Decision by Justices to hear Secret GSS Evidence Withheld from Them
• Since Operation “Cast Lead”: Sharp rise in reports of military and police violence towards Palestinians
• Following Adalah’s Petition Supreme Court Orders State to Respond as to Why Admissions Committees, which Overwhelming Exclude Arab Citizens of Israel from Living in “Community Towns”, are Legal
• Palestinian patients should not be used as political tools by either the PA or the Israeli government
• The Legal Experts: The Citizenship Law, which Bans Family Unification, Violates the Right to Family Life, is Discriminatory and Unconstitutional
• 2008 activities report
• Seizure of Lebanese Ship by Israel Bound for Gaza Violates International Law which Prohibits Prevention of Delivery of Humanitarian Aid to Civilians
• B'Tselem petitions the High Court to enable its staff to enter the Gaza Strip
• Israel/Gaza: Donors Should Press Israel to End Blockade
• Position Paper – Israeli Military Attacks on the Civilian Police Force and Government Buildings and Institutions of Hamas in Gaza
• The Right to Health of the Palestinian Arab Minority in Israel: A Status Report
• Adalah to Justice Minister: Holding Court Hearings on Prisoners’ Cases inside Prisons Violates the Prisoners' Rights
• Israel/Occupied Palestinian Territories: Evidence of misuse of US-weapons reinforces need for arms embargo
• End Ban on Human Rights Monitors
• UN urged to extend Gaza investigation
• Israel/Egypt: Choking Gaza Harms Civilians
• Adalah to Minister of Health: Excluding MRI Scans for Breast Cancer from Basket of Health Services Violates National Insurance Law and has Particularly Harmful Effect on Arab Women
• B'Tselem releases 2008 annual report
• Adalah’s Annual Report of Activities
• Access Denied: Israeli measures to deny Palestinians access to land around settlements
• Extra-Judicial Executions as Israeli Government Policy
• 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
• No Defense: Soldier Violence against Palestinian Detainees

News on Israel

• Adalah and HR Partners to Attorney General: Detention Conditions of Women Prisoners in Solitary Confinement Ward of Neve Tirtza are Cruel, Inhuman, Degrading and Illegal
• Hamas must release Gilad Shalit immediately and unconditionally
• Israel: Misuse of Drones Killed Civilians in Gaza
• Adalah to Attorney General and Custodian of Absentee Property: Israel's Sale of Palestinian Refugee Property Violates Israeli and International Law
• New online film marking two years of Gaza closure: It’s not a reality show - It’s reality
• Cast Lead Offensive in Numbers, Al Mezan Publishes Statistical Report on Persons Killed and Property Destroyed by Israeli Occupation Forces during Operation Cast Lead
• Adalah, Al-Mezan and Al-Haq Demand Investigation into Killing of Two Girls, Suad and Amal Abed Rabbo, at Close Range by Israeli Soldiers During Operation “Cast Lead” in the Gaza Strip
• Israel: Stop Demolishing Palestinian Homes
• Open Letter on the occasion of the EU/Israel Association Council
• New Legal Developments: The New Israeli Government Launches a Flood of Legislation in Violation of the Rights of Palestinian Arab Citizens of Israel
• Bring Ze’ev Braude, the shooter from Hebron, to justice
• On Wednesday 3 June 2009 at 9 am, the Israeli Supreme Court will hear the petition to reopen the Big Mosque in Beer el-Sabe (Beer Sheva) to worshippers
• High Follow-up Committee for Arab Citizens of Israel to the Prime Minister: Arab citizens will oppose all illegitimate, racist legislative bills such as the proposal to ban commemoration of the Nakba,
• B'Tselem and ACRI demand investigation of officers who testified to a policy of routine use of violence against Palestinian civilians
• Adalah Petitions District Court against Israel Prison Service Decision Banning the Entry of Books into Prisons
• UN Committee Against Torture Found 'Numerous, Ongoing and Consistent Allegations' of Torture and Ill-treatment by Israeli Interrogators, in particular, against Palestinians and Calls for Independent Investigation into Israeli Military Offensive 'Cast Lead' in Gaza
• Committee Against Torture’s Findings Highlight International Community’s Inaction in the Face of Israel’s Widespread and Systematic Violations of International Law
• Police Blockades at Entrances to Arab Bedouin Village of Tarabeen al-Sana (‘Amra) in the Naqab are Illegal
• Palestinian and Israeli Human Rights Organisations Release Joint Fact Sheet Calling for an End to International Donor Complicity in Israeli Violations of International Law
• Israeli Supreme Court to Hear Test Case on Wed. 6 May 2009 at 9 am on the Question of Opening Criminal Investigations against Israeli Military Commanders and Political Leaders Responsible for Killings and Extensive Home Demolitions in Gaza in 2004
• Palestinian and Israeli Human Rights Organisations Release Joint Fact Sheet Calling for an End to International Donor Complicity in Israeli Violations of International Law
• PCHR welcomes the Spanish National Court’s decision to continue investigating suspected Israeli war criminals
• Adalah to AG: Open a Criminal Investigation into Israeli Soldiers' Use of Palestinian Civilians as Human Shields during the Recent Military Offensive on Gaza
• Israel/Gaza: Israeli Military Investigation Not Credible
• Israeli army must make public findings of its probe into Gaza conflict
• Al Mezan Calls for Efforts to Expose Israeli Violations, Secure the Release of Prisoners and Defend their Human Rights
• Security forces demolish house of family of perpetrator of attack in Jerusalem
• Results of Israeli military investigations published today of alleged violations in Gaza are very problematic – the only way to truly investigate is through an external mechanism
• Israeli Refusal to Cooperate With United Nations Investigation Represents an Attempt to Shield Alleged War Criminals from Justice
• Israel Review Conference concludes on the eve of the Durban Review Conference
• Adalah to Israel Railways Company: Decision to Fire Arab Railway Workers on the Grounds of No Military Service Violates the Equal Opportunities Employment Law
• Israel/Gaza: Cooperate With Goldstone Investigation
• Al-Haq position paper on “Operation Cast Lead and the Distortion of International Law”
• B'Tselem: Israel and the Palestinians must assist the UN mission investigating human rights violations during the fighting in Gaza
• Testimony: Members of Abu Halima family killed and burned in army’s bombing of their house, 3 January 2009
• Israel Closes Investigation into Alleged War Crimes Committed in the Gaza Strip
• Since Operation “Cast Lead”: Sharp rise in reports of military and police violence towards Palestinians
• Israeli Human Rights Organizations Call on the Attorney General: “Stop whitewashing suspected crimes in Gaza"
• Human Rights Organizations Withdraw Supreme Court Petition Challenging Harsh Law for Palestinian Security Suspects following Illegal Decision by Justices to hear Secret GSS Evidence Withheld from Them
• Following Adalah’s Petition Supreme Court Orders State to Respond as to Why Admissions Committees, which Overwhelming Exclude Arab Citizens of Israel from Living in “Community Towns”, are Legal
• The Legal Experts: The Citizenship Law, which Bans Family Unification, Violates the Right to Family Life, is Discriminatory and Unconstitutional
• Palestinian patients should not be used as political tools by either the PA or the Israeli government
• B'Tselem petitions the High Court to enable its staff to enter the Gaza Strip
• Israel/Gaza: Donors Should Press Israel to End Blockade
• Seizure of Lebanese Ship by Israel Bound for Gaza Violates International Law which Prohibits Prevention of Delivery of Humanitarian Aid to Civilians
• Israel/Occupied Palestinian Territories: Evidence of misuse of US-weapons reinforces need for arms embargo
• End Ban on Human Rights Monitors
• Adalah to Justice Minister: Holding Court Hearings on Prisoners’ Cases inside Prisons Violates the Prisoners' Rights
• Israel/Egypt: Choking Gaza Harms Civilians
• Adalah to Minister of Health: Excluding MRI Scans for Breast Cancer from Basket of Health Services Violates National Insurance Law and has Particularly Harmful Effect on Arab Women
• UN urged to extend Gaza investigation
• EMHRN Contribution in relation to the ENP Progress Reports on the implementation of the Human Rights Chapter of the EU-Israel Action Plan in 2008
• Contribution to the meeting of the EU-Israel subcommittee on political dialogue and cooperation
• Middle East Quartet is failing
• Note on the human rights situation in Israel end the OPT
• Appeal to respect the freedom of movement owed to the Al-Haq General Director
• Stop Collective Punishment and Unlawful Killings
• 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
• 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