Volume 55, December 2008 www.adalah.org
Land and Planning Rights
Following Adalah’s petition to Supreme Court state commits to create roads to all schools and service centers in the Arab Bedouin unrecognized villages in the Naqab
Adalah to Finance Minister: Land confiscated by Israel in 1965 must be returned to Arab citizens from Daliyat al-Carmel
Video Feature  "Forbidden Land"
In this new short documentary, Adalah joins Palestinian Arab families from Lajoun and Nazareth in their fight to regain land confiscated by Israel in the 1950s
UN Advocacy

Adalah participates in UN Forum on Education and Minorities  with interventions on budgets, access to education and curriculum development

States pose tough questions to Israel about its human rights record and urge it to end the Occupation at UN Universal Periodic Review in Geneva 
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Adalah to Interior Minister and AG: Preventing the entry to Israel of Prof. Richard Falk, UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in the OPT, is illegal  
Cultural Rights 
Adalah submits pre-petition to Israeli ministries: banning import of Arabic books violates academic freedom and the rights to information, culture and education
Siege on Gaza
Adalah to Minister of Defense: Grant immediate entry of international aid and development workers into Gaza 
EU Advocacy
EMHRN and Adalah: Critique of Israel's HR record in 2008
EMHRN and Adalah: Recommendations to include human rights in the new EU-Israel Action Plan
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Upcoming court hearings in Adalah's cases 

Thursday, 01.01.09
A.P. 692/08, Haifa Dist. Ct.
Petition challenging ban on driving instructors from teaching in Carmiel on Saturdays and Jewish religious holidays

Wednesday, 07.01.09
H.C. 6176/06, Sup. Ct.
Representing Arab village of Kammaneh against attempts by Jewish town of Kamoun to impose racist conditions on the village’s master plan

H.C. 3292/07, Sup. Ct.
Petition demanding criminal investigations into Israeli military and government for killings and extensive home demolitions in Rafah, Gaza

Monday, 19.01.09
H.C. 6849/08, Sup. Ct.
Petition demanding the extension of the Pension Insurance Agreement to all workers over 18 years old

Wednesday, 21.01.09
P.P. 609/08, Nazareth Dist. Ct.
Representing an Arab political prisoner seeking conjugal rights
Wednesday, 28.01.09
H.C. 4326/07, Sup. Ct.
Petition to prevent forced closure of Arab shops in Akka on Saturdays
Commentary
Excluded, Against their Will: Arab Bedouin Women and the Phenomenon of Polygamy in the Naqab, By Rawia Abu Rabia
Goldberg Committee
Response of the Regional Council for the Unrecognized Villages to the Goldberg Committee's recommendations
New Report of the EMHRN
Freedom of Association in the Euro-Mediterranean Region 
OSI Scholarship
LLM Fellowship at Central European University
Application due 26.1.09
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