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Al-Haq Submits its Position on Key Arguments to the International Court of Justice for the Advisory Opinion on the Legal Consequences Arising from Israel’s Occupation
This week Al-Haq submitted a file, including a legal position paper and publications, to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on its position concerning key arguments pertaining to the forthcoming...
Al-Haq at UNHRC53: Joint Intervention Calling for Ending Israeli Attacks against CSOs in the Interactive Dialogue with the SR on OPT
On 10 July 2023, Al-Haq delivered a joint oral intervention under Item 7, interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied since...
Commemorating International Justice Day and the 25th Anniversary of the Adoption of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
Today marks International Justice Day, which commemorates the historic adoption of the Rome Statute 25 years ago, on 17 July 1998. As the founding treaty of the world’s first and only permanent...
Al-Haq Sends Urgent Appeal on Israel’s Impunity and Shielding of an Israeli Soldier who Killed Eyad Al-Hallaq, a Palestinian Person with Disability, on 30 May 2020 in Jerusalem
On 10 July 2023, Al-Haq submitted a follow-up urgent appeal to the UN special procedures on the shielding of Israeli perpetrators for the wilful killing of Eyad Khayri Al-Hallaq, a 31-year-old Palesti...
Al-Haq Marks World Population Day Unleashing the Power of Gender Equality, and Drawing on the Remarkable Legacy and Strength of Suha Jarrar
World Population Day was established by the United Nations Development Programme in 1989 with a view to “focus attention on the urgency and importance of population issues”. The theme for...
Al-Haq, PHROC and 15 Civil Society Organisations Send a Letter to MEPs on the Draft Report on the EU Relations with the Palestinian Authority
On 11 July 2023, Al-Haq, the Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Council (PHROC) and another 15 Palestinian and international civil society organisations sent a letter to members of the European Pa...
Al-Haq Sends Urgent Appeal to UN Special Procedures on Jenin, Following Preliminary Findings of First Field Investigation
On 6 July, Al-Haq sent a legal submission with the first findings of its preliminary field investigation to UN special procedures. On 3 July 2023, Israel launched a unilateral military attack by air a...
Joint Statement:
Human Rights Organisations Welcome the Release of OHCHR’s Update of the UN Database of Businesses Facilitating Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and Call for Full and Annual Implementation of the Mandate
Following its long-overdue release, we welcome the recent publication of the update to the United Nations database of businesses facilitating Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory,...
PNGO and PHROC: The Imminent Threat Forcible Transfer of Ghaith-Sub Laban Family, an International Crime and Ongoing Nakba
Alarmed by the imminent forcible transfer of the Ghaith-Sub Laban family from their house in the Old City of Jerusalem, which is slated to occur sometime between 28 June and 13 July 2023, the Palestin...
Al-Haq and FIDH Welcome EU Statement on Threats against the ICC and Call for a Consistent and Global Support of all Investigations
Al-Haq and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) welcome and commend the statement of the European Union (EU) expressing concern about the coercive measures reportedly taken by Russian...
Israel’s Five-Day Military Offensive on Gaza Was Yet Again Marked by Wilful Killing, Destruction of Civilian Property, and Absolute Impunity
One month before two million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip mark 16 years of Israel’s illegal blockade and closure, they were subjected to the sixth Israeli military offensive since 2008. The of...
Israeli Apartheid - The Legacy of the Ongoing Nakba at 75
Seventy-five years have passed since the Palestinian people were ethnically cleansed and forcibly expelled from their homes, lands, and property in their ancestral land during the 1948 Nakba (meaning...