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New UN Rapporteur on Climate Change: A Valuable Opportunity to Promote a Human Rights-Based Approach to the Impacts of Israel’s Apartheid on Climate Change in Palestine
Al-Haq strongly welcomes the establishment of a new UN Special Rapporteur dedicated to the promotion and protection of human rights in the context of climate change, in a resolution adopted by the Hum...
Al-Haq condemns the revocation of lawyer and human rights defender Salah Hammouri’s Jerusalem residency
Alert: Al-Haq condemns the revocation of lawyer and human rights defender Salah Hammouri’s Jerusalem residency on spurious grounds of “breach of allegiance” as a dangerous precedent,...
In the Run-Up to the UN Climate Change Conference, Al-Haq Joins Civil Society Organizations to Call on World Leaders to Put Human Rights at the Center of Environmental Policy
In preparation for its engagement at the United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference taking place in Glasgow, United-Kingdom, from 31st of October to 12 November 2021, Al-Haq joins civil societ...
Al-Haq Welcomes the Registration of the European Citizens’ Initiative and Urges Full Support for a European Ban on Illegal Settlement Products
On 8 September 2021, the European Commission (the Commission) registered the European Citizens Initiative (ECI), which is entitled “Ensuring Common Commercial Policy conformity with EU...
Don't Buy into Occupation: Exposing the financial flows into illegal Israeli settlements
The “Don’t Buy into Occupation” (DBIO) coalition is a joint initiative between 25 Palestinian, regional and European organisations based in Belgium, France, Ireland, the Netherlands,...
On World Tourism Day, Israel’s Entrenching Settlement Enterprise over the Archeological Site of Sebastia Reminds that Palestinian Tourism Remains a Major Target of Its Colonial Strategy
As the world celebrates World Tourism Day, the social and economic development of Palestinian tourism has been affected by two significant threats: the Covid-19 pandemic that prevented international t...
Al-Haq and 19 Palestinian and African partners condemn the accreditation of apartheid Israel as an observer State to the African Union, call for Israel’s rejection
Al-Haq along with 19 Palestinian and African human rights organisations have written to representatives of the African Union in Geneva to express their deepest concern regarding the recent accreditati...
Al-Haq Sends Letters to the United Nations Representatives of the International Criminal Court on Cooperation
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Al-Haq Sends Letters to the United Nations Permanent Representatives of States Parties of the International Criminal Court Urging them to Promote and Advance Cooperation Bet...
Collective Punishment as Israel Conducts Mass Arrests, including the Family Members of Prisoner Escapees Arrested in Jenin, High School Student Shot by Israeli forces is Hospitalised
(Reporting Period 7- 13 September 2021)
Background
On 6 September 2021, six Palestinian prisoners escaped from the Israeli Gilboa Prison, located outside of the Occupied Pale...
Special Focus: Israel Intensifies Forced Self-Demolitions of Palestinian Homes in Occupied Jerusalem
(Reporting Period: 16-23 August 2021)
Introduction: House Demolitions in Jerusalem, A Method of Warfare Since 1948
“In one minute, the whole life of a house e...
Urgent Appeal to Safeguard Palestinian Prisoners' Rights against Collective Punishment by the Israeli Prison Services
On Saturday 11 September, Al-Haq and partners submitted an urgent appeal to the UN special procedures calling for their urgent intervention to protect the lives of Palestinian prisoner escapees. On th...
Open Letter to the States Parties to the Arms Trade Treaty on the Need to Impose a Comprehensive Two-Way Arms Embargo on Israel
We, the undersigned global coalition of leaders –from civil society to academia, art, media, business, politics, indigenous and faith communities, and people of conscience around the world&ndash...