Press Releases

In the present report, the Special Rapporteur gives an overview of his activities during the reporting cycle in relation to country visits, pending visit requests, presentations, consultations,...

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...

The current agreement requires employers to pay pension insurance to female workers aged 20 and above and male workers aged 21 and above, excluding younger workers, a large percentage of whom are...

(Beer el-Sabe) On 26 December 2011, Adalah sent a letter to the Mayor of Beer el-Sabe (Be'er Sheva) requesting a meeting to discuss the municipality's total failure to implement the 22 June 2011...

HCJ: "The questions that this law raises will only become clear with its implementation" Adalah and ACRI: The High Court ignored the chilling effect of this law, and missed the opportunity to tell...

In December 2009, PCATI released the report entitled Accountability Denied,1 which details the manner in which the Attorney General has systematically disregarded hundreds of complaints of torture...

Arab Bedouin residents of the unrecognized village of Atir ask for cancellation of the "Yatir Forest Plan" (264/03/11). This plan seeks to evacuate the villagers, who are citizens of Israel,...

(Haifa, Israel) On 26 December 2011, the Israeli Attorney General (AG) Yehuda Weinstein submitted an indictment before the Nazareth District Court against MK Sa'id Naffaa .

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...

(Tel Aviv, Israel) On 13 December 2011, Adalah, together with Physicians for Human Rights - Israel (PHR-I) and the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI), held a briefing for embassy...

(Jerusalem and Beer el-Sabe) On 12 December 2011, Adalah, NGO partners, and human rights activists participated in a briefing for the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression, Mr. Frank La...

At NIF awards event, retired Supreme Court Justice Ayala Procaccia praises the winners as lawyers of the highest caliber and calls to support human rights organizations On 13 December 2011, the New...

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...

The news agency [Al-Naqab Net] has discovered that demolition warnings that were posted on the outskirts of the village of Wadi al-Nam, or "south of the village of Shegheb al-Salam [Segev Shalom]",...

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...

(Kiryat Gat, Israel) On 11 December 2011, in the presence of dozens of villagers, the Magistrates' Court in Kiryat Gat rejected Adalah's motion to cancel the 33 home demolition orders in the...

The UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) issued its Concluding Observations on Israel in December 2011. This human rights body monitors State Party compliance with the...

(Tel Aviv, Israel) On 6 December 2011, Adalah, together with the Negev Coexistence Forum for Civil Equality (Dukium) and the Regional Council of the Unrecognized Villages (RCUV), held a briefing...

(Beer el-Sabe, Israel) Today, 6 December 2011, for the first time in Israel's legal history, the Kiryat Gat Magistrate's Court ordered the immediate cancellation of 51 demolition orders on the...