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Civil Society Groups Send Appeal to UN Special Procedures on the Rights and Dignity of Palestinian Workers in Israel during COVID-19
On 14 April 2020, Palestinian, regional and international civil society organisations sent a joint urgent appeal to the United Nations (UN) Special Procedures regarding the dire conditions of Palestin...
Israeli Apartheid Undermines Palestinian Right to Health Amidst COVID-19 Pandemic
Joint Statement
This year we mark World Health Day as the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues to sweep across the globe, disproportionately impacting those subjected...
COVID-19 and Apartheid: Living with Rights Denials, Arbitrariness, and Fear
The inability to envisage a foreseeable end to the extraordinary measures being imposed in response to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has generated much uneasiness and distress around the w...
Joint Statement: On Land Day Civil Society Urge Accountability and End to Israel’s Illegal Closure of Gaza
For the past two years,[i] Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip have gathered on a near-weekly basis to participate in the Great Return March demonstrations at the Gaza perimeter fence, callin...
On World Water Day, Al-Haq Recalls Israeli Water-Apartheid Amidst a Global Pandemic
On 22 March every year, World Water Day is designated to measure the world’s progress towards providing everyone with clean, accessible, and affordable water, and reminds us of the challenges fa...
International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination: Time to Recognise and End Israeli Apartheid over the Palestinian People
Joint Statement
The International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination also marks the 60th anniversary of the Sharpeville Massacre under apartheid in South Africa, on 21 March...
Human Rights Groups Urge ICC to Open Investigation into the Situation in Palestine
Press Release
On 10 March 2020, Palestinian, regional, and international human rights groups and civil society organisations engaged in a social media Twitter storm calling for the immediate openin...
Al-Haq and partners hold briefing for diplomatic community in Palestine
Press Release
Date: 20 February 2020
Ramallah, Al-Haq Center for Applied International Law – On 20 February 2020, Al-Haq and Palestinian human rights organisations, inc...
Palestine: United States Plan to Entrench Israel’s Apartheid Regime Must be Rejected
Over the last three years, the Trump administration has increasingly implemented one-sided policies favoring the Government of Israel that contravene international law and reward Israel’s illega...
Human Rights Organisations Send Joint Written Submission on Israeli Apartheid to the UN Human Rights Council
On 3 February 2020, a group of 13 Palestinian, regional, and international civil society organisations sent a joint written submission on Israeli apartheid over the Palestinian people to the United Na...
Palestinian, Regional, and International Civil Society Organisations Submit Written Statements to the UN Human Rights Council
On 3 February 2020, a group of 14 Palestinian, regional, and international civil society organisations sent five written submissions on the human rights of the Palestinian People to the United Nations...
Palestinians and the International Community Must Stand against US-Israel Flouting of International Law
Today, the United States (US) administration plans to release the so-called “Deal of the Century” or “Peace Plan”. While Al-Haq has not yet examin...