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Adalah, Physicians for Human Rights-Israel and Al Mezan Centre for Human Rights are pleased to announce the publication of our journal, “On Torture”. “On Torture” is an edited volume of...

On 18 June 2012, Adalah sent a letter to the director of the Israel Prison Service (IPS), Mr. Aharon Franco, demanding that the IPS comply with its agreement with Palestinian political prisoners...

The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI), Adalah, Al Mezan Centre for Human Rights, and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHR-I) submitted a briefing paper to the UN Human Rights...

14 June 2012 marks the fifth year of Israel’s closure – by land, air and sea – of the Gaza Strip. The closure, also widely referred to as a ‘blockade’ (1), has had a major impact on all...

An expanded panel of seven Israeli Supreme Court justices sat on 5 June 2012 to hear the petition brought by Adalah and the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) on behalf of MK Haneen...

MEDIA ADVISORY - (Haifa and Tel Aviv, Israel) An expanded panel of seven Israeli Supreme Court justices will convene tomorrow, Tuesday 5 June 2012 at 9 am to hear the petition filed by Adalah and...

Adalah, Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHR-I), Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, and the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI) conducted an advocacy visit to Brussels to push for...

Last night, 22 May 2012, the Israeli Supreme Court issued a judgment accepting eight separate petitions filed in 2005 by local municipal authorities, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel...

Adalah will hold a professional training course for lawyers in Beer el-Sabe (Beer Sheva) on the subject of "Representing Detainees during Arrest and Investigation." The training is designed for...

At least 25 unrecognized villages threatened by demolition - 65,000 Arab Bedouin citizens of Israel in danger of expulsion from their land On the eve of the 36th anniversary of Land Day (land day...

The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI), Adalah, Al Mezan and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHR-Israel) presented a briefing for the United Nations Committee Against Torture...

Adalah submitted an NGO report to the Committee in December 2011 on Israel's lack of compliance with the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD),...

On 14 February 2012, Adalah revealed that the Israeli military order prohibiting ships and individuals from traveling to the Gaza Strip was issued after the Gaza Freedom Flotilla left Turkish...

We were shocked to hear today about the recent violent attacks over the past two weeks against our colleague Mahmoud Abu Rahma, the international relations director of Al Mezan and an...

On 11 January 2012, the Israeli Supreme Court in a 6-5 decision, delivered a 232-page judgment upholding the constitutionality of the Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law – 2003 (as amended...

As is known, following the 31.5.10 overtaking of the flotilla to Gaza, the Attorney General ordered the launching of a police investigation that centered on violent criminal offenses carried out...

I would like to thank the Government of Israel and the Palestinian National Authority for inviting me to visit Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory and for their cooperation before and...

Despite awarding compensation to the family of a Chinese worker who was killed while working in the former Jewish settlement of Ganei Tal, located in the southern Gaza Strip prior to its...

On 24 October 2011, Adalah filed a petition to the Jerusalem Administrative Court against Israel's policy of preventing residents of the Gaza Strip who file tort lawsuits against the Israeli...