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United Nations: In response to Unprecedented Recognition of Israel's Apartheid Regime, States Must Take Concrete Steps to End this "unjust reality"
Geneva – The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) delivered a joint statement on behalf of 114 Palestinian, regional, and international civil society organizations, sending a strong...
International Community Must Recognize and Counter Israel's Apartheid Regime
43rd Regular Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council
Joint Oral Intervention
Item 9 – Racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related forms of intolerance,
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Freedom of Expression Victory for Palestinian Human Rights Activists in European Court of Human Rights case Baldassi and Others v France
Today, 11 June 2020, the European Court of Human Rights found in favour of the right of human rights activists to mobilise for Palestinian liberation, ruling that their peaceful protests in advocating...
International Criminal Court: Palestinian Human Rights Organisations Public Response to the Pre-Trial Chamber Request of 26 May 2020
In December 2019, the Prosecutor concluded the preliminary examination into the Situation in the State of Palestine, setting in motion the concomitant Article 19(3) process on territorial jurisdic...
Al-Haq Sends Urgent Appeal to UN Special Procedures on the Extrajudicial Execution and Wilful Killing of Palestinian Person with Disability Iyad Al-Hallaq
Al-Haq Sends Urgent Appeal to UN Special Procedures on the Extrajudicial Execution and Wilful Killing of Palestinian Person with Disability Iyad Al-Hallaq
Date: 9 June 2020
On 8 June 2020, Al-Ha...
Rights Groups Call on UN Human Rights Council to Lift Illegal Closure of Gaza as Collective Punishment
On 4 June 2020, Al-Haq, Al Mezan Centre for Human Rights, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), and the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) submitted a joint written statem...
On Naksa Day, Al-Haq Recalls Ongoing and Systematic Violation of International Law, calls for Recognition of the State of Palestine
On the occasion of Naksa Day 2020, commemorating the mass displacement and military occupation that Palestinians of the West Bank and Gaza have been subject to since June 1967, Al-Haq reiterates its d...
Rights Groups Call on UN Human Rights Council to Prevent Impending Israeli Annexation
On 4 June 2020, Al-Haq, BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights, and the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) submitted a joint written statement to the Uni...
Third States Must Act to Prevent Further Israeli Annexation of Occupied Palestinian Territory
Joint Written Statement
United Nations Human Rights Council
44th Regular Session – Item 7
Third States Must Act to Prevent Further Israeli Annexation of Occupied Palestinian Territory...
Palestinian, Regional, and International Human Rights Organisations Submit Joint Report on Accountability to UN Special Rapporteur
Al-Haq, Al Mezan Centre for Human Rights, Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, and Habitat International Coalition – Housing and...
Palestinian Civil Society Calls for Effective Measures by all States to Stop Israel’s Illegal Annexation of the Occupied West Bank and Grave Violations of Human Rights
Ban arms trade and military-security cooperation with Israel.
Suspend free-trade agreements with Israel.
Prohibit all trade with the illegal Israeli settlements and ensure that...
Joint Statement: The Nakba at 72: A Legacy of Settler-Colonialism & Apartheid over the Palestinian People
Seventy-two years have passed since the Palestinian people were forcibly expelled from their homes, lands, and property in Palestine during the Nakba or ‘catastrophe’ which started in 1948...