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Dutch court: Serious risk that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza
The Court of Appeal in The Hague has concluded that there is a serious risk Israel is committing genocide in Gaza and violating international humanitarian law. The Dutch State's obligation to take...
Al-Haq welcomes the UN Special Rapporteur’s report “Gaza Genocide: a collective crime” and urges immediate, concrete action by Third States based on their shared demands
Al-Haq welcomes the new report of the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, Francesca Albanese, ‘Gaza Genocide: a collective cr...
Entering a Third Year of Genocide in Gaza: PCHR, Al-Haq, and Al Mezan Condemn International Inaction in the Face of the Ongoing Destruction and Dispossession of Palestinians
Today marks two years since the start of one of the most shameful and inhumane atrocities in modern history: the ongoing, live-streamed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. For more than 730 days, r...
Al-Haq, PCHR, and Al-Mezan Condemn US Sanctions and Call for Global Solidarity to End the Genocide in Gaza and the Oppression of Palestinians
Gaza/Ramallah, 5 September 2025 — While the ongoing Israeli, US - backed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza is entering its third year, the United States (US), rather than end its complicity...
Palestinian Civil Society Call to Action: Stop the Genocide, End the Era of Impunity
The Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Council (PHROC)* and the Palestinian NGO’s Network (PNGO)**warn that Gaza has become the cemetery of international law – a place where the princi...
The ‘Genocide Series’: Al-Haq Publishes Second Legal Brief on “The Protected Group”
Al-Haq publishes Legal Brief II on the ‘Protected Group’ in its Genocide Legal Brief Series. The series develops a number of Legal Briefs examining different elements of the crime of genoc...
Submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health: Israel’s targeting of Palestinian Healthcare Workers, An Act of Genocide
Palestinian healthcare workers in Gaza are on the front lines of the ongoing genocide: under constant airstrikes as Israel carries out mass killings, forced displacement, and deliberate starvation of...
Position Paper: Third State and International Organisations Complicity in Genocide through the Failure to Protect Palestinians and Failure to Enforce International Law
The international community has consistently failed to take effective measures to hold Israel accountable for its grave human rights violations, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide. It h...
The Court Will Not Decide, Parliament Must Act to End UK Arms for Gaza Genocide
High Court ruling ups pressure on parliament to ensure democratic process takes place; Government must allow MPs to scrutinise decision to continue arming Israel amid ongoing genocide in Gaza.
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Palestinian Organisations Urge UN Genocide Prevention and R2P Advisers to Take Immediate Action to Halt Gaza Genocide
Subject: Immediate and Unequivocal Action Needed to Stop the Genocide in Gaza
Dear Ms. Virginia Gamba, Acting Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, and Ms....
Al-Haq Files for Injunction to Prevent Israeli Delegations and Arms Companies Contributing Arms used in Gaza Genocide from Participating in the Paris Air Show
On Friday, 22 May, Al-Haq, Union Juive Française Pour La Paix (UJFP), Attac-France, Stop Fuelling War (SFW) and Survie, filed a legal action against SIAE, the organiser of the Bourget Air Show...
UK’s ‘flawed’ assessment of genocide in Gaza revealed in court that contradicts claims made in Parliament
The UK government’s long held claim it is for ‘competent court’ not parliament, to assess genocide, was contradicted in Court last week as the government revealed that it has asse...