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Member Releases
- Firing at People in Hedik Village, Diyarbakir
- PCHR Receives Coordinator of the Israeli Committee against House Demolition
- Girl Murdered by Relatives in Khan Yunis to “Maintain Family Honor”
- 700 organisations and 90 000 individuals say no to the EDVIGE file
- Policeman sent to prison for killing Palestinian in incident exposed by B'Tselem
- B'Tselem to Attorney General: Stop reckless use of rubber-coated steel bullets
- Al Mezan Center Condemns Politicizing Education & Health Sectors, Violating Workers Rights, and Flagrant Disregarding of Human Rights
- Middle East/North Africa: Treat Domestic Workers Fairly This Ramadan
- UK: Government must provide information about rendition, disappearance and torture
- France: Sarkozy Should Use Syria Visit to Raise Rights
- Training Course on Writing Parallel Reports a Success
- Greece: Ongoing acts of harassment against GHM
- Greece: Ten years of GHM litigation on behalf of Roma
- Morocco: Open letter to Prime Minister Abbas Fassi
- First Grade Class Opens for Arab Children at the al-Karma School for the Arts in Haifa
- Adalah Demands that Defense Minister Ehud Barak Revoke his Decision to Close Down the Al-Aqsa Association and to Proclaim it an Illegal Organization
- Petition demands to change the indictment filed against the officer and soldier filmed in Ni'lin: Severe abuse of handcuffed detainee is not "unbecoming conduct"
- Israeli Military Investigation Sanctions Wilful Killing of Civilians, including Reuters Cameraman, and Demonstrates Complete Disregard for Principle of Precautions in Attack
- Egypt: Deadly journey through the desert
- Tunisia: War on human rights and freedom defenders (In French)
- Lebanon: Migrant Domestic Workers Dying Every Week
- PCHR Calls for Schools to be allowed to operate without Destructive Political conflicts
- Tunisia: Zakia Dhifaoui (In French)
- Israeli Response to Death of Reuters Cameraman Makes Journalists Legitimate IOF Targets
- Tunisia: Zakia Dhifaoui convicted
- Open letter to Rama Yade
- Punishing Saad El Din Ibrahim, A New Ring in the Chain of Opinion Trials
- Syria: Wives of Islamist Suspects Detained, Whereabouts Unknown
- High Court suspends proceedings in Ni'lin shooting case
- Lebanon bus bomb kills 14, including civilians
- Assault and intimidation acts against Mr. Mohamed Bayoumi
- police force broke arm of Mr. Hüseyin Beyaz, IHD Adana Branch Administrator
- UN : a scathing report for France
- Right to Life of Palestinian Children Disregarded in Ni’lin as Israel’s Policy of Wilful Killing of Civilians Continues
- The International Coalition against Enforced Disappearances (ICAED) requests NGOs and personaltities to sign an appeal to Heads of State all around the world to urge them to ratify and implement the Internatational Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearances.
- Government to Restrict Freedom of Expression of Former Diplomats and the Right to Information
- PCHR Condemns Attacks on Civil Society Organizations and the Continued of Arrests against Hamas Members in the West Bank
- Supreme Court: Education Ministry, Haifa Municipality and Pupils’ Parents Must Enter Promptly into Negotiations over Establishing an Arab School for the Arts in Haifa
- Israel approves some 32,000 requests for family unification 90,000 Palestinians still waiting
- Palestinian victim of shooting and Israeli human rights organizations demand suspension of legal proceedings in Ni’lin affair
- Conclusion of the Second Training Session on Human Rights Held for the Employees of the Jordanian House of Representatives
- Syria: Economist Freed as Crackdown Goes on
- Israel: Don’t Destroy Homes. Collective Punishment Violates International Law
- Egypt: No justice for 49 facing trial before emergency court
- Israel’s Policy of Arbitrary Arrest of Human Rights Defenders Continues
- Justice and Home Affairs Ministers: stop the witch-hunt of Roma in Italy
- Massacre in Gungoren district of Istanbul
- The LDH supports Nedim Gürsel
- Mr. Qawariq arrested by Israeli forces in the city of Nablus
- PCHR Condemns Gaza Beach Crime and the Response of the Government
- Following exposure by B'Tselem, Military Police investigate shooting of bound Palestinian
- Arab Political Prisoner Seeks Conjugal Rights in Order to Father a Child like Jewish Israeli Prisoners such as Yigal Amir
- Over 122 Institutions, Offices Are Targeted by Security in Gaza: Al Mezan Condemns Illegal Mass Arrests and Raids on Institutions
- Occupied Palestinian Territories: New Arrests Highlight Abuses by Hamas, Fatah
- Tunisian journalist freed
- Netherlands: Court Rules Pre-Entry Integration Exam Unlawful
- Open Letter to the League of Arab States and to the African Union
- 22nd Anniversary of the Human Rights Association (IHD) in Turkey
- Supreme Court Issues Order to Show Cause Requiring Israel Prison Service to Explain Policy of Prohibiting Palestinian Political Prisoners from Embracing their Young Children during Family Visits
- Egypt: Release Dozens of Protestors Held Without Charge
- Syria: Investigate Sednaya Prison Deaths
- The Indictment of the Sudanese President:A Milestone on the Path towards Justice for the Peoples
- Prosecute soldier who fired ‘rubber’ bullet at Palestinian detainee, Investigate the involvement of an officer in the event and suspected cover-up
- Training on Gender Equality and Gender Mainstreaming
- Euro-Mediterranean Foundation of Support to Human Rights Defenders : Launching of the Annual Report 2007
- PCHR Calls for Investigation into Police Shooting of a Young Man
- Gaza Military Court Sentences Man to Death
- US/Algeria: Reveal Location of Guantanamo Detainees
- Jerusalem Municipality allows criminals to turn the Dahiyat a-Salam neighborhood into a garbage dump
- Closing down of the Nafha Society for the Defence of Prisoners and Human Rights
- Union for Mediterranean: a way to bypass human rights?
- Adalah Demands Cancelation of Order Issued by Defense Minister to Prepare for Demolition of the Family Homes of Individuals Implicated in Attacks on Civilians in Jerusalem, in Breach of International Law
- We Condemn the Attack and Commiserate with Those who Lost Their Relatives
- Director of AL Mezan Center Wins the Weimar Human Rights Award 2008
- Seeking Justice Abroad:Bil’in Village Council Submits Case before Canadian Court Against Canadian Corporations for Involvement in Illegal Settlement Construction
- Failed Responsibility: Iraqi Refugees in Syria, Jordan and Lebanon
- The Secret to Success: Secret Evidence Provides Sole Basis for Continuation of Travel Ban on Al-Haq’s General Director
- PCHR Condemns Interference of the Ministry of Interior and Security Forces in Election Affairs of the Women’s Arab Union in Nablus
- Sacrificing Justice for Politics: Four Years on, Israel’s High Court Continues to Disregard the International Court of Justice’s Advisory Opinion
- Union for the Mediterranean: Casablanca recommendations
- Supreme Court Orders Mivtahim Ltd. to Freeze Bidding Procedures for Sale of Land in Nazareth Confiscated from Arab Owners in 1958
- Jordan: Scrap New Laws That Stifle Democracy
- PCHR Condemns IOF Measures against Nablus Charities
- Physical and psychological ill-treatment and torture of a 10 year-old boy
- Al Mezan Organizes Lecture on International Humanitarian Law for Women
- Mauritania: Under pressure from the European Union, migrants face illegal arrest and collective expulsion
- Syria: Open letter to Nicolas Sarkozy
- Lebanon: Open letter about Mr. Youssef Chaabane
- Violent repression of the riot at the military Sidnaya prison : open letter to Mr Bashar El Assad
- Those who are real responsible for Siva massacre should be found out
- B'Tselem: Israel has not dismantled any section of the Separation Barrier that was nullified by the High Court
- France: Guilty-by-Association Prosecutions Violate Rights
- Political Prisoners Summarily Executed at Syrian Prison
- Libya: Drop Convictions of Peaceful Protestors
- Europe must not turn a blind eye to the deteriorating human rights situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory
- An Obstacle to Peace: 41 Years of Israel’s Illegal Settlement Policy and the Violation of the Palestinian Right to Self-Determination
- Syria: ‘Arabji and Dekalbab facing unfair trials
- Al Mezan Warns of IOF Conducting Large-Scale Military Operation in the Gaza Strip; Denounces Killing of Children and Aggression
- Internally Displaced Persons in Africa need a strong Convention
- Moroccan Justice acquitted an accused who has raped a pregnant woman
- PCHR Opposes Policy of Nepotistic Council Appointments in the Gaza Strip
- Egypt: Obey Court, Recognize Labor Group
- Spain: Improve Care for Migrant Children
- Greece: European Court judgment on segregated education of Roma in Greece
- Delegation of Arab Political Leaders and Adalah Representatives in South Africa Meet with Lawyers from the Legal Resources Center, Ministers and Government Officials to Discuss Constitution Building and Human Rights
- تركيا: المحكمة الدستورية تقر حظر الحجاب
- Italy must respect european justice
- Tunisia: Police shot at the demonstrators
- Mohamed Charfi
- Mohamed Charfi
- Immediately halt construction on 9 houses in Ofra settlement
- One Year of Banning Family Visits to Prisoners, Al Mezan Condemns Israeli Violations against Palestinian Prisoners
- 7 Injured, including 2 Children, by Palestinian Security Forces in Beit Foriek near Nablus
- Syrian authorities continued to crush freedom of opinion and expression
- Tunisia: Agression against Messaoud Romdhani (In French)
- The Euro-Mediterranean Network Discusses the Anti-Terrorist Act and Freedom of Non-Governmental Organizations with Dr. Moufid Shehab, the Advisor to the Minister of Social Security and the Secretary General of the National Council for Human Rights
- Algeria: Witch hunt against christians
- Algeria: Demonstration against the silence of the journalists (In French)
- Italy: Halt Expulsion of Tunisian at Risk of Torture
- Turkey: Court Shows Bias, Dissolves Lambda Istanbul
- The committee against torture asks Algeria to investigate (In French)
- Refugees and Asylum seekers in danger! The new "Prevention of Infiltration Law" adopted in violation of refugees’ basic rights
- London 2012: A Celebration of the Olympic Spirit?
- The Egyptian Government is Heading to Close Down the Third Rights Association under the Pretext of “the Voluntary Activity” !
- Press release on the mission of the observation commission of Mr. Naama Asfari’s trial
- Egypt: Court Upholds HIV Sentences, Reinforces Intolerance
- Libya: Disappeared Political Prisoner Released
- Freedom of association must be concretely implemented
- Egypt: Investigate Forcible Return of Refugees to Sudan
- Turkey: Homophobic Violence Points to Rights Crisis
- Sixty years of human rights failure – governments must apologize and act now
- ‘Returns’ Directive: European Parliament and Member States risk compromising respect for migrants’ rights.
- Tunisia/France: "business as usual"
- Turkey: Respect the rights and safety of demonstrators
- B'Tselem demands a criminal investigation into the killing of five members of the Abu Me'tiq family in Gaza
- Tunisia: 23 young people still missing
- Greece says “Hammarberg confirmed progress in Roma rights”!
- Harassment against Taoufik Ben Brik and Radhia Nasraoui
- France: European Court Orders Suspension of Deportation
- Youssef Chaabane, Interrogated Under Torture by the Syrians, Remains in Arbitrary Detention in Lebanon
- Joint Cooperation Agreement Between the Amman Center For Human Rights Studies [ACHRS] and Justice for Prisoners (Iraq)
- Raji Sourani Reelected to the Executive Board of the Arab Organization for Human Rights
- Mother and Four Children Killed by Israel Bombardment of their Home in Beit Hanoun
- Palestinian and Israeli human rights groups today issued an urgent call to cease restrictions on Gaza's fuel supply and stop the unprecedented harm to Gaza's humanitarian needs.
- PCHR is Concerned over the Ban of its Lawyers from Visiting Prisons in the Gaza Strip
- Peaceful Assembly Is an Unconditioned Legal Right; Al Mezan Condemns Violent Dispersing of a March in Rafah
- Israel: Investigate Death of Gaza Civilians
- Algeria: No news of the whereabouts of Rabah Kadri
- Violent repression of a trade union demonstration
- B’Tselem: firing of Flechette shell that killed Reuters cameraman violates laws of war
- Article 301 should be abolished
- Human Rights Organizations to Israeli Parliament: Bill Banning Family Visits to Palestinian Political Prisoners Amounts to Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Punishment
- Conclusion of a training session on the monitoring of elections held for local monitors in Kuwait
- Human Rights organizations file a petition to the High Court of Justice against the GSS, the Police and the Attorney General demanding the Court prohibit the use of family members to pressure interrogees
- Tunisia: Foued Khenaissi and Boujomâa Chraïti are free
- Tunisia: Against violence and intimidation (In French)
- Egypt: Sentences against Muslim Brothers a perversion of justice
- US/Italy: Italian Court Challenges CIA Rendition Program
- Contempt of Religions should not be used as a pretext to expropriate freedom of opinion and expression
- Election of the management and choice of Amman as its headquarters
- Gaza Strip is on the Verge of Humanitarian Catastrophe
- Egypt: Arrests of Kefaya movement leaders, investigation needed into police killings
- Harassement against a human rights defender in Tunisia (In French)
- Report on the violation of asylum seekers’ human rights by Greece
- Greece’s ongoing violations of Roma housing rights
- Algeria: Amine Sidhoum's case
- Letter regarding with ill-treament to 15 year old boy in Turkey
- The Findings of the Palestinian Legislative Council Committee Investigating the Death of Majd abdel Aziz Bargouthi Must be Implemented
- Arrests and Intimidation of Syrian Human Rights Activists
- Tunisia: Arrests in Gafsa (In French)
- Open letter to Mr Bouteflika
- US/Jordan: Stop Renditions to Torture
- Final Statement and Recommendations issued by the Second Conference on Academic Freedom in Arab Universities
- Egypt: 117 NGOs Slam HIV-Based Arrests and Trials - Doctors Helping Police Denounced for Breaching Medical Ethics, Human Rights
- France: Torch Relay Should Not Mask Olympic Rights Abuses
- Gafsa's population under repression (In French)
- Egyptian State-Run Satellite Nilesat Blocks Transmission of Alhewar Satellite
- Demolition of houses near the Separation Barrier, Far'un Village, Tulkarm District
- Ramallah Government Insists on the Policy of Salary Suspension; Al Mezan Views the Policy as a Violation of Human Rights
- High Military Court Sentences a Man to Death
- Judges and jurists demand curbs on the enforcement of the capital punishment (Death Penalty)
- Palestinian Authority: Punish Imam’s Death in Custody
- Egypt: Municipal elections on Tuesday 8 April, concerns mount
- ACHRS July/December 2007
- Review the trial of Saber Ragoubi and Imed Ben Ameur
- Crackdown on Syrian activists continue
- Syria must stop repression against human rights defenders
- Assessment and implementation of the UE-Morocco Action Plan in the framework of the European Neighbourhood Policy: Involvement of the Moroccan civil society
- The office of lawyer Ayachi Hammami damaged by arson
- Turkey: Judiciary harassment against Osman Baydemir
Recent Member News
- Firing at People in Hedik Village, Diyarbakir
- PCHR Receives Coordinator of the Israeli Committee against House Demolition
- Girl Murdered by Relatives in Khan Yunis to “Maintain Family Honor”
- 700 organisations and 90 000 individuals say no to the EDVIGE file
- Policeman sent to prison for killing Palestinian in incident exposed by B'Tselem
