Press Releases

Today, 1 April 2012, human rights organizations Adalah and the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) formally submitted their reservations to the government's legislative proposal to...

Beer el-Sabe, Israel) Adalah, on behalf of Arab Bedouin residents of the unrecognized village of Umm el-Hieran in the Naqab (Negev), filed an appeal to the Israeli Supreme Court on 27 March 2012,...

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...

0 March 2012 is the 36th Land Day. The first Land Day began as a general strike in 1976 to protest Israel's policy of confiscating Arab land, and ended with the killing of six Palestinians from...

(Haifa, Israel) Adalah filed a request for permission to appeal the decision of the Nazareth District Court to the Israeli Supreme Court on 26 March 2012. Earlier this month, the District Court...

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...

(Beer el-Sabe, Israel) On 19 March 2012, six residents of unrecognized Arab Bedouin villages in the northern Naqab (Negev) filed an official objection (Hebrew) with the Southern District Planning...

(Haifa, Israel) Adalah submitted an urgent letter on 13 March 2012 to the Director of the Israel Prison Service (IPS) and the Minister of Public Security demanding that they reconsider the transfer...

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),...

(Haifa and Jerusalem) On 11 March 2012, Adalah and the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) submitted a petition to the Israeli Supreme Court seeking cancellation of the "Boycott Law,"...

(Haifa, Israel) On 7 March 2012, the Nazareth District Court rejected Adalah's petition demanding that the Israel Prison Service (IPS) allow Mr. Rawi Sultany (25 years-old), a Palestinian 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...

(Haifa, Israel) Yesterday, 7 March 2012, in advance of international women’s day, Adalah sent a letter to the Attorney General of Israel requesting that he issue directives to the Israeli...

(Haifa, Israel) Today, 28 February 2012, Supreme Court Chief Justice Dorit Beinish, who is retiring this week, chose to read the court's ruling overturning the Income Support Law (1982) –...

In January 2012, Adalah worked on a series of legal submissions regarding the unrecognized Arab Bedouin village of Atir-Umm al-Hieran in the Naqab. The village is slated to be demolished and the...

(Haifa, Israel) On 17 February 2012, the Nazareth District Court once again refused to allow political prisoner Mr. Walid Dakka, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, to meet his wife for conjugal...

(Haifa, Israel) On 15 February 2012, Adalah sent a letter to the Prime Minister, the Attorney General, and the Minister of Justice demanding that they halt a proposed new law that will grant a 35%...

Wednesday, February 22, 2012 - Israel's Supreme Court today will hear a petition filed by Shawan Jabarin, General Director of the human rights organization Al-Haq, against atravel ban that, based...

This press conference concludes a 10 day visit to the region, carried out within the framework of my mandate as United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian...

Updated | 3:05 p.m. A Palestinian man who has refused to eat since he was detained without charge two months ago by Israel “could die at any minute,” one of his lawyers told The Guardian...