Adalah :: Newsletter

Volume 75, October 2010

Land, Housing and Planning Rights

	Adalah and Arab Center for Alternative Planning (ACAP) challenge new plan threatening to confiscate land in Arab village of Tarshiha and hand it to Jewish village of K’far Vradim

Adalah and ACAP to Minister of Construction: Plan and bids for newly-proposed ultra-Orthodox Jewish town of Harish in Arab Wadi 'Ara in central Israel are illegal

Position paper on the illegality of home demolitions in Arab Bedouin unrecognized villages in the Naqab (Negev)

Economic and Social Rights

Adalah submits NGO Report to UN on Israel’s lack of implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; UN Committee to hold preliminary review of Israel in November 2010

Adalah petitions Supreme Court against new law conditioning child allowances on health immunization shots which stands to harm thousands of Arab Bedouin children in unrecognized villages in the Naqab

Adalah and Tour Guide Unions to Israeli Tourism Minister: Bill to ban Palestinian residents from working as tour guides in Jerusalem is flagrant violation of right to work

Articles on Accountability

“Bolstering Hegemony: The Interpretation of the October 2000 Events by the Or Commission”
Dr. Ahmad H. Sa'di, Ben-Gurion University

“On the Question of Accountability: The Rachel Corrie Family’s Civil Lawsuit as a Case Study”
Hussein Abu Hussein, Attorney

“In Search of a Remedy”
Anne Massagee, International Center for Transitional Justice

Access to Courts

Adalah to Justice Minister: End policy of blocking Gaza residents’ access to Israeli courts in lawsuits for damages and compensation filed against Israeli security forces

Justice Denied: Israeli Supreme Court orders deportation of Nobel Peace Prize Winner Mairead Maguire, following Adalah’s appeal

Prisoners’ Rights

Following Adalah's Supreme Court petition: Israel Prison Service (IPS) commits to providing Arabic language education to adult Arab prisoners

Following Adalah's Supreme Court appeal: State Attorney’s Office instructs IPS to transfer any petition submitted by prisoners to court immediately

Adalah demands cancellation of new bill that harms rights of detainees suspected of security offenses


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Law Students’ Conference

Adalah holds 5th Annual Arab Law Students' Conference on "The Right to Protest" \| Photo Gallery
Scholarships
Adalah nomination committee for scholarship for Arab lawyers for Master’s Degree (LLM) in Law at Central European University, Budapest - deadline 1 December Fulbright Master's Degree Fellowships for study at universities in the United States during 2012-13 academic year open to citizens of Israel – deadline 31 March 2011

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