Cultural rights

Adalah is challenging ministerial ban on external providers of school programs that refuse to declare they recognize the Jewish character of the state, and/or those who commemorate the Palestinian...

The petition, filed on behalf of the Al-Tufula Center, the Arab Mayors’ Committee, and the Follow-up Committee on Arab Education demands the cancellation of clauses requiring that educational...

Adalah: The most important thing for us is that the agreement did not impose any prohibition or conditioning of the creative content produced by the theater.

Adalah: Without parallel award, it marginalizes and insults human dignity of Arab artists and Arab community.

Adalah: Demanding "loyalty" to Israel is a political consideration, which has numerous implications on freedom of expression.

Adalah: The decision is a strong indication that the Culture Ministry should reverse its own discriminatory and unlawful decision to freeze its funding of the theatre, which violates freedom of...

Adalah: When the authorities impede exposure to opinions associated with the minority group, the result is the transformation of the cultural and artistic arena into a mouthpiece for the majority.

Adalah: The municipality’s actions disregard the existence and status of tens of thousands of Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel living in Beer el-Sabe and the surrounding area

Through Adalah, Ms. Arraf responded to attacks stressing that she has the right to define the film as a Palestinian film, and that this does not breach any funding agreements.

Adalah: Dropout rate in the village among high school youth reaches more than 45%.

On 2 April 2012, Adalah submitted a petition to the Supreme Court Israel against the Ministry of Culture and Sports demanding that it offer free cultural programs to all children - Jewish and Arab...

(Beer el-Sabe, Israel) It is a surprise to everyone who visits the Big Mosque in Beer el-Sabe(Beer Sheva) today: The lobby and walls of the mosque are covered in pictures of government buildings...

(Beer el-Sabe, Israel) On 22 June 2011, the Supreme Court of Israel issued a 40-page ruling on a petition filed by Adalah in August 2002 in which it demanded that the Big Mosque in the Old City of...

The Knesset enacted the Nakba Law on 22 March 2011. The law authorizes the Minister of Finance to reduce funding or support provided by the state to an institution if it holds an activity that...

The UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (“the Committee”) issued its "List of Issues" for Israel in December 2010. This list consists of 39 questions concerning Israel's...

(Haifa, Israel) On 29 July 2010, the UN Human Rights Committee, which monitors the implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), issued its Concluding...

On 27 March 2006, the Supreme Court of Israel held a hearing on a petition filed by Adalah on behalf of literary critic, translator and journalist Antwan Shalhat against the Interior Minister's...