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Al-Haq Receives a Delegation of Chilean Members of Parliament
The briefing, which was held at Al-Haq, shed light on the deteriorating situation of human rights and the oppressive Israeli policies against Palestinians, which results in a situation of mass viola...
Al-Haq Calls on the European Union to Withdraw its Recent Statement on Gaza and Apologize to Palestinian Victims
Al-Haq urges that all civilians regardless of their identity be guaranteed their humanitarian rights to be protected from direct and targeted attacks. Accordingly, Al-Haq deeply regrets that...
Gaza 20/20: Call to Canadian Government for Sanctions until the Blockade on Gaza is Lifted
Dear Prime Minister Trudeau and Foreign Affairs Minister Freeland;Last year, the UN warned that Gaza is expected to be uninhabitable by the year 2020. In the deeply worrying report, the UN Coordinat...
The Conference “Threshold from Occupation to Annexation” Concluded
The welcome remarks made by the organisers, Dr. Abdullatif Abuhijleh, President of Birzeit University, Mr. Shawan Jabarin, General Director of Al-Haq, Dr. Dimitris Christopoulos, President of the FI...
Al-Haq Attends 38th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council
Written Submissions
Ahead of the 38th regular session, Al-Haq submitted a joint written submission together with BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights, titled: “Seven D...
Al-Haq and Addameer outline why agenda Item 7 is critical for human rights in the OPT
Item 7 is a necessary point in the HRC’s agenda, given that the response of the international communitiy to Israel’s 70-year, annexation, colonisation and apartheid of Palestine and 51-year occupati...
51 Years of Israeli Occupation, 11 Years of Closure of the Gaza Strip: Time for Action, Time for Sanctions
51 Years of Israeli Occupation: Settlement Expansion and Exploitation of Natural Resources
Israel’s colonial policies and practices have continued and intensified as a result of over 50 years of br...
Al-Haq Condemns United States Recognition of Jerusalem, in the occupied State of Palestine, as Israel’s Capital
When Israel annexed East Jerusalem in 1967, Security Council Resolution 267 warned “all legislative and administrative measures and actions taken by Israel which purport to alter the status of Jerus...
Joint NGO Statement in Support of the UN Human Rights Database on Business Activities related to Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
The Database as mandated by Human Rights Council (HRC) resolution A/HRC/RES/31/36 can be a successful implementing mechanism to further compliance by duty-bearers, businesses and states, with their...
Les organisations des droits humains palestiniennes présentent des preuves à la Procureure de la Cour pénale internationale sur des crimes commis en Cisjordanie
Le directeur d'Al-Haq, M. Shawan Jabarin, qui, avec l'avocate des droits de l'homme Mme Nada Kiswanson, a soumis la communication, a déclaré : «cette communication de 700 pages fournit une base conv...
Palestinian Human Rights Organisations Submit Evidence to the ICC Prosecutor on Crimes Committed in West Bank
The director of Al-Haq, Mr. Shawan Jabarin, who together with human rights lawyer Mrs. Nada Kiswanson submitted the communication, stated that ‘this 700-page communication provides a compelling and...
FIDH supports the right to participate in and call for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions
In 2005, Palestinian civil society called on individuals and civil society organizations to apply BDS measures until Israel met its international law obligations. Given the lack of political will to...