Adalah :: Newsletter

Volume 88, December 2011

Unrecognized Villages

Israeli court issues precedent-setting decision to cancel home demolition orders against entire Arab Bedouin unrecognized village of Alsira in the Naqab

Court rejects motion to cancel home demolition orders in unrecognized Arab Bedouin village of Umm al-Hieran in the Naqab; Adalah to appeal

UN CESCR: Israel should fully respect Arab Bedouin rights to their
ancestral lands

Slideshow: Adalah in Photos - 2011

The Zubeidats in the Rakefet community town following their Supreme Court victory in September 2011; photo by Abdullah Shama

Gaza

Israel's National Insurance Institute refuses to compensate Palestinian families of workers killed and injured in accident, despite awarding damages to family of Chinese worker killed in same incident

Prisoners' Rights

Adalah re-petitions District Court to demand conjugal rights for political prisoner Walid Dakka in order to father a child

UN Advocacy

Adalah submits new report to the UN Committee on the Elimination of
Racial Discrimination

Adalah briefs UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression and leads tour for him and UN human rights officers in the Naqab

Human Rights Awards
From left: Hassan Jabareen, Prof. Herman Schwartz, and Dan Yakir NIF awards top human rights lawyering prizes to Adalah General Director Hassan Jabareen and ACRI Legal Advisor Dan Yakir Awards speech of Retired Supreme Court Justice, Ayala Procaccia Awards speech of Prof. Neta Ziv, Director of the Cegla Clinical Law Program, Tel Aviv University Photos from the awards ceremony
Diplomatic Briefings
From left: Haia Noach, Ambassador Walter Haffner, and Dr. Thabet Abu Ras Adalah and NGO partners urge Ambassadors in Israel to take action against demolition and displacement of the Arab Bedouin Adalah Briefing Paper to the EU: Major developments regarding the rights of Palestinian citizens of Israel in 2011
Activism
Signs read 'No Adalah, No Justice' Photos from the Human Rights Day Marches in Haifa and Tel Aviv Alternative Information Center: Thousands demonstrate, strike against Prawer Report
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