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Adalah Holds 4th Annual Arab Law Students' Conference: The Absence of Justice and State Accountability

2009-10-28

Over three days, from 6-8 October 2009, Adalah held its 4th Annual Arab Law Students’ Conference at Neve Shalom-Wahat al-Salaam. Seventy law students from Israeli colleges and universities and Al...

Adalah Appeals to the Supreme Court against Decision Prohibiting Palestinian ‘Security Prisoner’ Citizen of Israel from having Children

2009-10-27

Today, 27 October 2009, Adalah submitted an appeal to the Supreme Court of Israel on behalf of Walid Dakka, who is a Palestinian citizen of Israel classified by the Israel Prison Service as a...

Adalah to Employment Office: Unequal Travel Reimbursement for Palestinian Residents of East Jerusalem who Participate in the Wisconsin Work Program Constitutes Prohibited Discrimination

2009-10-25

On 30 September 2009, Adalah sent a letter to the Employment Office , the Minister of Industry and Trade and the "Faithful Work" Center demanding that an order be issued to equally reimburse the...

Adalah Appeals against Court Decision Evicting Residents from Arab Bedouin Unrecognized Village of Umm al-Hieran in the Naqab: Israel Land Administration Seeks to Evacuate the Village and Build Jewish Town of Hiran on the Land

2009-10-25

On 21 October 2009, Adalah submitted an appeal to the Beer el-Sabe (Beer Sheva) District Court on behalf of Arab Bedouin residents of the unrecognized village of Umm al-Hieran to overturn the...

Daliyat al-Carmel against Regional Master Plan to demolish 800 Homes

2009-10-25

On 12 October 2009, the Haifa Administrative Court heard a petition submitted by Adalah against the National Council for Planning and Building in March 2009 on behalf of 43 residents of the village...

UN Human Rights Council Endorses Goldstone Report: Adalah Statement Stresses Lack of Accountability for Palestinian Victims in Gaza

2009-10-22

On 16 October 2009, the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) adopted a resolution endorsing the report and recommendations published by the UN Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict (the...

Israel Prison Service Commits to Teaching Arabic to Adult Arab Prisoners

2009-10-18

On behalf of the Israel Prison Service (IPS), the State Attorney General Office committed to providing the opportunity for Arab prisoners, especially those who are illiterate, to learn the Arabic...

New undercover police unit posing as Arabs constitutes discrimination and racial profiling against Arab citizens of Israel and is illegal

2009-10-14

On 13 October 2009, Adalah sent an urgent letter to the Minister of Internal Security, and the Chief Commander of the Israeli police demanding that they refrain from activating a new undercover...

UN Special Session on Goldstone Report Adalah to Give Statement on Lack of Accountability for Palestinians Victims in Gaza

2009-10-14

Haifa, 14 October 2009) Tomorrow, Thursday 15 October and Friday 16 October 2009, the UN Human Rights Council will hold a special session in Geneva, as requested by the Palestinian Authority, in...

Adalah to Finance Minister: Lack of Transparency Surrounding the Work of the Board of Trustees of Waqf Properties in Haifa and Criteria for Appointing its

2009-10-12

On 5 October 2009, Adalah sent an urgent letter to Israeli Minister of Finance Yuval Steinitz, and the government official responsible for the Islamic waqf in Israel, demanding that the appointment...

Human Rights Organizations Urge States at UN Human Rights Council to Support Goldstone Report on Gaza and Demand Accountability for Victims

2009-09-30

On 29 September 2009, Israeli, Palestinian, and international human rights organizations at an event held at the 12th session of UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland called upon States to...

Adalah Petitions District Court Demanding that Education Ministry Provides Personal Assistant to Disabled Arab Bedouin Child during School Hours

2009-09-30

On 15 August 2009, Adalah submitted a petition to the Beer el-Sabe (Beer Sheva) Administrative Court demanding that it compel the Ministry of Education (MOE) to allocate a personal assistant to an...

Education Ministry Ignores Israeli Supreme Court Decision Ordering the Opening of the First High School in Arab Bedouin Unrecognized Village of Abu Tulul in the Naqab

2009-09-29

Adalah in Supplemental Petition to Supreme Court: Non-Implementation of Court Decision Reveals State Contempt of Court On 22 September 2009, Adalah filed a petition to the Supreme Court of Israel...

New Adalah Report Reveals how Israeli Police, Prosecutor, GSS and Courts Suppressed Protests by Arab Citizens of Israel against Military Attacks on Gaza

2009-09-22

ine Years after the October 2000 Events, Demonstrators Suppressed in the Same Way (Haifa, Israel) Today, 22 September 2009, Adalah published a report which exposes the ways in which the Israeli law...

Adalah to Supreme Court: Prohibiting Palestinian Arab Prisoner Citizen of Israel from Marrying Palestinian Woman Prisoner from the OPT is Illegal

2009-09-18

On 9 September 2009, Adalah filed an appeal to the Supreme Court of Israel on behalf of Mr. Muayad Bushnak, a Palestinian Arab citizen of Israel imprisoned in an Israeli prison, against a decision...

Adalah to Supreme Court: Arab Landowners of Lajoun Entitled to Return of their Private Property Confiscated by the State in 1953

2009-09-18

On 10 September 2009, the Supreme Court of Israel held a hearing on an appeal filed by Adalah on behalf of 486 Arab landowners in Lajoun against a 2007 District Court decision, which refused their...

Following Lawsuit by Adalah, Sawt el-Amel and the Tel Aviv University Human Rights Clinic, Labor Court Issues Temporary Injunction Preventing Dismissal of Arab Railway Workers

2009-09-17

On 9 September 2009, the Tel Aviv Regional Labor Court issued a temporary injunction preventing the firing of Arab railway inspectors by the Israel Railway Company on the grounds that they have not...

Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Support Work and Recommendations of UN Fact Finding Mission: Demand Effective Judicial Redress and the Protection of Victims’ Rights

2009-09-16

As Palestinian human rights organizations, we welcome the report by the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict (the Fact Finding Mission) , released on 15 September 2009 and...

Human Rights Groups in Israel Provide Initial Response to Goldstone Report: Israel Must Initiate Independent Investigation into 'Operation Cast Lead'

2009-09-15

With the publication of the Goldstone Committee report today , 15.9.09, human rights organizations in Israel are studying the report and its conclusions. They call upon the Israeli Government to...

Trying to Go Back to School: Misgav Regional Council in the North and Beer el-Sabe Municipality in the South Cancel or Place Undue Barriers on Transport for Arab Students

2009-09-06

On 1 September 2009, Adalah sent an urgent letter to the Misgav Regional Council and the Ministry of Education demanding the resumption of bus transport for 10 Arab students from the unrecognized...